Posted on 02/18/2017 11:05:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
The music was snapped off, and the lunchtime chatter at the Keg Room quieted down. Bartender Vivian Jenkins cranked up the volume on the two TVs hanging over the bar as “The Young and the Restless” ended and the real daytime drama came onscreen: the noon media briefing from Oroville Dam, 3 miles up the road.
Friday’s episode brought encouraging news. Progress was being made on releasing water from Lake Oroville, while work crews continued to patch the dam’s troubled emergency spillway. Kory Honea, the Butte County sheriff, reminded viewers “we’re still operating under an emergency situation” and they needed to be ready to flee.
“Just waiting for the wall of water to come out,” said Dan Hill, 61, as he sipped a glass of red wine, before quickly adding: “You’ve got to make light of this.”
Life isn’t exactly back to normal yet in Oroville. The mandatory evacuations ended last Tuesday, but not everyone has returned home, and folks in town have suitcases packed in case they’re ordered to leave again. Dump trucks and helicopters hauling concrete to the dam have become part of the scenery. Some schools remain closed, and with an “atmospheric river” rainstorm poised to roll into the region Monday, people are keeping a wary eye on their cellphones and TV sets, awaiting the next bulletin.
“Doing laundry and getting ready to go if we have to,” said Matt Mentz, as he and his wife Jessica ate breakfast Friday at Jenn’s Cafe in Oroville.
While most in Oroville have confidence in what they’re hearing from law enforcement and state Department of Water Resources officials,
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They want the dams to *go away* - they just drained and removed the Hetch Hetchee dam out there.”””
The Enviro-Nazis” want the dams removed.
How much of San Francisco’s water came from that dam??? Over 50%, I think.
IIRC- Flood insurance is separate insurance, just like earthquake insurance is. NOT part of a standard home owner’s policy.
If they tell me to evacuate again, I will.
In the evacuation notice, they were crystal clear to say there was a small but definitive chance that the 30-foot tall emergency spillway could collapse. NOBODY stated the dam was collapsing in an hour. That is a large exaggeration.
If the lake resumes spillover level and overtops the emergency spillway, the real concern for a possibility of failure will return, and evacuations with it.
The Oroville Sheriff is not lacking in credibility. He explained everything before the fact, and explained it in better detail after the fact.
Anybody who fails to obey a mandatory evacuation order should the emergency spillway become active again with over-topping water, they are just plain foolish and gambling with their life and their families lives.
Correct, flood insurance is special and provided by Fed Gov, not your local home insurer.
Since changing the law, it takes 30 days to activate flood insurance. This was in response to people buying flood insurance while waters were rapidly rising and then getting flooded out a day later. This corresponds to the “existing condition” in Obamacare. The Fed Gov was tired of paying out to people who knew they would be flooded in the near future.
Now when you buy flood insurance during heavy rains and get flooded out a few days later, you can’t claim a thing because of the 30 day lag between purchase and effect. Good law.
FEMA is already on site as of a few days ago.
Voluntary evacuations today for the town of Maxwell
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/18/latest-voluntary-evacuations-asked-in-california-town.html
In any case, stay safe.
Praying for all you folks near the dam. There are good people out there in Butte county and surroundings...turns my stomach to see some of the vile posts out there on Facebook. Stay safe.
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