All of Yuba County Ordered to Evacuate Immediately.

KCRA Sacramento ^ | February 12th, 2017 | KCRA Staff

[Mariner]

"Officials are anticipating a failure of the Auxiliary Spillway at Oroville Dam within the next 60 minutes (5:45 p.m.)," the California Department of Water Resources said on Facebook.

The Yuba County Office of Emergency Services said on Facebook an evacuation has been for "all Yuba County on the valley floor."

The city of Marysville and Yuba County have been ordered to evacuate, the Marysville Police Department tweeted.

[nickedknack]

Someone with even a bit of balls needs to ask “Rictus Face” Pelosi why she remained with her Leftist travelers at the Grammys while the northern part of her state is in grave peril.

[daisy12]

If Trump sends money he needs to keep federal control of it otherwise it will disappear.

[easternsky]

Freaked me, Northern CA. here. lol

[Mark17]

I thought it was never going to rain in California again. What’s up?

A lot of us were beginning to think the same thing.

[daisy12]

I mostly lurk these days but I wanted to say that I really enjoy your posts. You have a knack for finding great info and pics.

[353FMG]

Paid for by the taxpayers.

[GOPJ]

But with big storms starting Wednesday night, that can’t persist. They will have to open it up. This could cause a bit of a traffic jam where the American River meets the Sacramento river...and send it all south to Sacramento. Sacramento metropolitan area is 2.5 million.

You're right - this could get a lot worse...

[blueplum]

flooded generators in the base?

[stars & stripes forever]

GOOD LIVE FEED... FOX NEWS 40
https://www.youtube.com/embed/yF3j82YEsTo

[GOPJ]

Might or might not be meaningful... Let’s pray they have backup generators for the important stuff...

[21twelve]

“LIGHTS on dam have gone dark.”

I heard where the emergency workers are all union. After 4 hours of overtime their contract says they can go home. /s

[maggief]

Thank you.

It’s defeating when genuine research gets buried and/or trolled.

Why is that?

[Mat_Helm]

The Lake is @ 790,000 acre feet (AF) above flood control level. As of Sunday 167,000 CFS was flowing into the lake and they were releasing @ 100,000 CFS down the damaged normal spillway. This means +70,000 CFS is going over the emergency spillway which basically just stops water from running over the dam itself. When the spill way gives way it could threaten the dam and immediately release a 30 foot wall of water with @ up to 500,000 acre feet of water rushing down the feather river all at once. This could even threaten Beal Air Force Base.

On our normal weekly operations call with the Bureau of Reclamation they said the Department of Water Resources (DWR) did not expect water levels to rise enough to go over the emergency spillway. Boy was DWR wrong. DWR damaged an emergency valve at the base of the dam a few years ago in a stupid experiment by Fish agencies to let cold water at the bottom of the lake flow for fish. A failure when a concrete wall broke and flooded the control room nearly was catastrophic and just before the control room flooded an engineer was able to hit the emergency control to close the valve. That has not been repaired and is not being reported. They new they were in trouble when the main spillway came apart and lots of water was coming into the lake.

[daisy12]

some people are just miserable and they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are :-(

[dfwgator]

Is like Gorky says in The Lower Depths. Quote: “Miserable being must find more miserable being. Then is happy.”

[daisy12]

Thanks. I am trying to watch the various feeds.

The lights going out is a bit of a puzzle. Maybe the FR engineers have an explanation. If they cut the power on purpose because they are placing rock they still need light in order to see at night. I remember a few days back someone posted a scenario that in the cascade of a breach or failure the power would go out. I’m concerned about the workers and emergency services in the area. Hope they can get out in time.

[RinaseaofDs]

Nobody is talking about the highways crossing the feather river yet. Wonder how well they’ll stand up to all those logs and mud?

[stars & stripes forever]

I was watching the live feed on FOX 40. It was really dark out there.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/yF3j82YEsTo

[lastchance]

Other people have noticed the scant coverage. I wonder why it is garnering so little attention.

[Grams A]

It’s a good precaution no matter where you live.”

Some people forget that if there is a power outage, regardless of the reason, either the pumps won’t work or you can’t use your credit card and need to have cash.

Remember when I was just out of high school in the late 50’s. My best friend had a VW bug that didn’t have a gas gauge. There was a lever that you flipped when you ran out the first time and then you would need to get to a station sooner rather than later before the reserve ran out. Unfortunately she could never remember whether she had flipped the lever already or not and we ran out of gas and were stranded a lot of times. The only saving grace at that time was that gas was only $.20/gallon. Learned a valuable lesson and always kept/keep lots of gas in the tank.