Evacuations ordered due to levee breach south of Manteca

KCRA Sacramento ^ | February 20th, 2017 | KCRA Staff

[Mariner]

MANTECA, Calif. (KCRA) —

A levee near Manteca was breached Monday night leading to mandatory evacuations in the area, according to San Joaquin County officials said.

Mandatory evacuations were ordered for people living within the below boundary:

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The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for the pictured area on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, due to a levee breach south of Manteca. The warning is set to expire at 7 a.m. Tuesday.

[Mariner]

Of significance this is just downstream from the confluence with the Tuolumne river which is the Don Pedro dam source.

On the San Joaquin river. Which is about 5 inches below flood stage and running 250,000- 300,000 CFS.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Prayers up for all those affected. Stay safe. Turn around, don’t drown. But definitely evacuate. Don’t make the Coast Guard come and get you!

[Steely Tom]

Hey, "stuff happens."

[latina4dubya]

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[Fungi]

Moonbeam, where are you? Just par for a rabid liberal, divorced from reality.

[Mariner]

ping

[jiggyboy]

“permanent drought”

[Duchess47]

Thanks. I have friends there, trying to reach them now on FB. Be hard to evacuate with two horses, four dogs and unknown amount of barn cats.

[Repeal The 17th]

“... stuff happens ...”
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That was a pretty cold comment, Tom.
I was 10 years old when I was flooded out of my house,
and I still vividly remember it 55 years later.
There ain’t a damn thing funny about it.

[detsaoT]

He is quoting Moonbeam Brown, who ironically enough was pilloried in a book written ages ago about the exact same sort of dam "failures" we are seeing today.

[Delta 21]

I was just gonna ask, “Is the drought officially over yet?”

[SFConservative]

He was just quoting what our compassionate governor Jerry “Moonbeam” “Moron” “Choo-Choo” Brown said about our flood risk problems last weekend.

[Mariner]

Over 17 inches of rain in 51 days...in Sacramento.

Most of the Sierra foothills are over 40 inches.

[vette6387]

Tonight should tell the story. Here is the NOAA forecast for Oroville:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Oroville&state=CA&site=STO&textField1=39.5139&textField2=-121.555&e=1#.WKvC7RjMxBw

[vette6387]

Well Don Pedro is FULL! Take a look:

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/resDetailOrig.action?resid=DNP

From the graph, it looks as though they are releasing, but I guess they have no option not to.

[vette6387]

And they’ve dump a ton out of Oroville:

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/resDetailOrig.action?resid=ORO

[Kevin in California]

We’re getting pummeled with rain here in California but after years of drought, it’s a welcome sight. My prayers go out to those who’ve been affected by this.

[MrEdd]

Especially when stuff to keep stuff from happening isn’t maintained.

And in CaliPorno, bridges, dams, and stormdrains crumble, while the concept of proper firebreaks as forgotten as the use of slide rules.

Haven’t lived there in decades. Had to go back on business in 2013 and nothing had changed.

[Karl Spooner]

Some say they are shooting high energy weather modification beams through the Chico area thereby keeping the worst away from the Oroville area.

[Thud]

I drove by there on Highway 99 on the way up and back to the Sacramento airport today. It was pouring in Stockton both ways. Water levels in the Stockton-Manteca area had visibly increased on the return trip, including the Tuolumne River in Modesto.