You're crazy if you want me to get into that little boat.
Posted on 02/13/2017 5:52:03 AM PST by bgill
Nearly 200,000 people remained under evacuation orders Monday as California authorities try to fix erosion of the emergency spillway at the nation's tallest dam that could unleash uncontrolled flood waters if it fails. About 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, Lake Oroville - one of California's largest man-made lakes - had water levels so high that an emergency spillway was used Saturday for the first time in almost 50 years. The evacuation was ordered Sunday afternoon after engineers spotted a hole on the concrete lip of the secondary spillway for the 770-foot-tall Oroville Dam and told authorities that it could fail within the hour. "I'm just shocked," said Greg Levias, who was evacuating with his wife, Kaysi, two boys and a dog.
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You're crazy if you want me to get into that little boat.
And your little dog too!
And yet the water dipshits in this state still insist we’re in a drought. Not any more. There’s 4 more atmospheric rivers headed our this week and into this coming weekend.
Lol..cute
Lol..cute
Instead of a railway to nowhere it might be a good idea for a couple of water projects to ensure farmland and people are taken care of.
And couldn't some water have been released before the buildup?
Just a bad design job????
Maybe President Trump should send his experts.
Lots of stupidity in those pictures.
That is northern CA, how is Hoover Dam looking? That will tell you if the drought is real or not for California.
Nope, they've got delta smelt, they are more important than any farm, industry or person.
The fruitcakes are on record demanding that all California dams be removed!
I bet they'll double down on stupid, and on the bodies of 100,000 drowned Californians, by saying if the damned dam wasn't there to fail all those poor, poor people would still be alive...
If the libs quit trying to kill the ag business, they might redirect money from that useless rail project to this and other dam reconstruction.
The way things have been going the last 8 years, the holdovers from EPA et al will ‘discover’ these flooded farms and homes and immediately declare them wetlands and they will probably try to seize all the land and ‘protect’ it. No rebuilding, no use, NO TRESSPASS.
Bingo.
Last time we had a major flood, the river authority morons who sit behind their computer screens two hours away make the decisions. They didn't bother opening the dam gates below us but were warning about 23+ foot flooding. Then they opened the gates above us. Hellooooo! They filled us up like a bathtub. It's been the only time in 50 years we've had to evacuate and that was on our own because the equally moronic LEOs didn't believe there was flooding. Again, helloooo! The county line is 100 ft. from our house so we could see the emergency crews evacuating people. Our county? Naw. Nothing. Was told I didn't know what I was talking about. The next morning, they finally opened the down stream gates and there was someone's kitchen cabinets on our deck. At shift change or something, they closed the downstream gates and opened the upstream again. Geez! So, I called to holler that they were flooding us out again. I was standing on the porch looking at it and they had the nerve to tell me I didn't know what I was talking about. Rule #1 - In any emergency situation, you are on your own. Make the right decision for you and your family. Don't rely on emergency help.
Thanks bgill!
From the article:
“...The evacuation was ordered Sunday afternoon after engineers spotted a hole on the concrete lip of the secondary spillway for the 770-foot-tall Oroville Dam and told authorities that it could fail within the hour. ...”
Different hole than the big pothole partway down the spillway.
During droughts is when they should have been making repairs and improvements. It’s a bit late after the spillway breaks. Now, people’s lives are in danger, homes and businesses are destroyed, crops and livestock have been washed away and it’s going to cost a zillion times more to fix the problem.
Prayers up for these residents.
This is intentional to prevent Jefferson from seceding.
***During droughts is when they should have been making repairs and improvements.***
MANYANA
“The window she is broken and the rain is coming in,
If someone doesn’t fix it I’ll be soaked clear to my skin.
But if we wait a day or two the rain may go away,
And we don’t need a window on such a sunny day!”
They should read some history. An example: In 1936 a horrific dam failure near Northampton, MA decimated the area the water overwhelmed, which included a factory town along the river. Dams need to be maintained.
One can't help if CA enviro-crazies are so anti-dams that they didn't want to spend any money extending their life.
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