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To: bgill; DuncanWaring; Vince Ferrer; Mariner

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.


15 posted on 02/13/2017 6:25:13 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57

https://youtu.be/5iAHBOHGk8E

Chp chopper view; go to 0:15 to see water pouring over the dirt that is to the —left— of the weir...


27 posted on 02/13/2017 6:58:00 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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