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Race to save badly damaged California dam before MORE rainfall: Second storm is set to hit......
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| 13 February 2017
| Liam Quinn and Gareth Davies For Dailymail.com
Posted on 02/14/2017 12:34:16 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Race to save badly damaged California dam before MORE rainfall: Second storm is set to hit the tallest dam in America in 48 hours and could cause devastating 100ft deep flood that will leave 200,000 homeless
- Authorities have said they want to lower the water level by at least 50 feet before storms arrive Wednesday
- There are fears the Oroville Dam could collapse and unleash flooding, leaving towns 100 foot underwater
- Nearly 200,000 residents evacuated in Butte, Sutter and Yuba counties in Northern California amid fears
- The average annual rainfall is about 31 inches, but since October, the area has seen 25 inches of rain
- Currently, the water level of Lake Oroville is dropping at a rate of roughly three- to four-inches per hour
- All 23,000 of the California National Guard have been put on standby to assist the situation and recovery
- Water levels reached 50-year high after rainfall and threatened citizens living near the massive Oroville Dam
- The Oreville dam is made up of two spillways that siphon water out of the lake of the same name
- The main spillway has a 250-foot wide and 40-foot deep chasm that has affected drainage
- The emergency spillway is a wooded embankment and was used for the first time in history on Saturday
- As of 8 a.m. on Monday Lake Oroville had dropped to 897.2 feet, which is about 4 feet below capacity
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; dam; lakeoroville; oroville; orovilledam; rain
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
It’s all in the temperature now. If there is a low snow elevation run off now will be much less... But more later. When it rains days of draining will be made up in hours. And for spring melt they have a limit on the level they can drop since hydro plant is down.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I have become a horrible person. I actually sort of want to see the dam break just so it washes out a bunch of damn liberal Hillary supporters
You have a lot to learn about California.
The liberals are along the coast.
Conservatives are inland.
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:41:35 AM PST
by
CIB-173RDABN
(US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
But this can’t be true. I thought that the “climate scientists” said that Kalifornistan was in a state of permanent drought due to globull warming.
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:42:41 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: jonrick46
They have put their fortunes on high speed railThe high speed rail is not actually intended to be built. It's just a method for transferring money from the taxpayers to liberal friends of the liberal regime in Kalifornistan.
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posted on
02/14/2017 4:45:29 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I have read elsewhere that there has been a problem with this dam for ten years and the officials chose to ignore the problem and instead spent their money on social programs that benefited illegals. Well I say no federal funds. Let them learn how to properly budget.
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posted on
02/14/2017 5:04:30 AM PST
by
New Jersey Realist
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I have become a horrible person. I actually sort of want to see the dam break just so it washes out a bunch of damn liberal Hillary supporters
NoCal is actually a conservative area of CA.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Do some research. Butte County voted for Trump.
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posted on
02/14/2017 5:29:27 AM PST
by
boknows
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Maybe someone there should have taken the opportunity to start building an arc.
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posted on
02/14/2017 5:56:21 AM PST
by
broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
To: broken_arrow1
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posted on
02/14/2017 5:56:39 AM PST
by
broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
To: Behind Liberal Lines
To that I would offer the friendly advice, which I often need to be reminded of myself:
Be careful what you wish on others lest the same, or something worse, should befall you or someone you love.
IOW "Vengeance is mine, sayeth The Lord."
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posted on
02/14/2017 6:06:10 AM PST
by
OKSooner
(If they're wearing masks, shoot them in the knee and then waterboard them.)
To: Daniel Ramsey
Thanks, interesting.... and frightening.
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posted on
02/14/2017 6:12:35 AM PST
by
Auntie Mame
(Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
To: Auntie Mame
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posted on
02/14/2017 6:29:04 AM PST
by
Daniel Ramsey
(Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best!)
To: Daniel Ramsey
Watching those helicopters dropping the bags of rock looks like running back and forth with one grain of sand at a time to block the overflow on a goldfish tank.
Hope it all works out.
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posted on
02/14/2017 7:38:35 AM PST
by
Auntie Mame
(Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Any freepers affected by this?
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posted on
02/14/2017 7:59:15 AM PST
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: momincombatboots; Ernest_at_the_Beach; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; TWhiteBear; ...
Check out article and # 10.
Thanks, Ernest_at_the_Beach.
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posted on
02/14/2017 9:21:27 AM PST
by
LucyT
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Some California politicians need to go to prison because of this.
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posted on
02/14/2017 9:25:00 AM PST
by
sport
To: LucyT; 21twelve
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posted on
02/14/2017 9:33:19 AM PST
by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
To: Daniel Ramsey
Daniel, can you save this video?
Go to 3:00 timestamp....
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posted on
02/14/2017 9:41:51 AM PST
by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
To: WildHighlander57; 21twelve; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; TWhiteBear; Velveeta; Sal; ...
*
Ping.
From # 8.
>>>>the 4 inches per hour is a foot every three hours. Monday morning to Wednesday morning is 48 hours divided by 3 hours = 16 feet draw down. Not quite the 50 feet they wanted.
Hopefully the 50 feet is a conservative estimate.
Okay guys, we can get by with 15 feet of draw-down, but lets have a safety factor of three and try to get it to about 50 feet.<<<<
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posted on
02/14/2017 11:58:57 AM PST
by
LucyT
To: LucyT
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posted on
02/14/2017 12:00:45 PM PST
by
Godzilla
(1/20/2017)
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