Posted on 02/20/2017 8:08:52 PM PST by 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.
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Yeah. My mother told me the story how her family during the great Ohio flood (1934? 1937?). Her dad had to move the livestock to high ground and while he was doing that the waters continued to rise. He came back with a boat and rescued them off of the roof of their house. I believe her house was some 20 miles from the river bank. Epic.
I have lived in So.Cal. my entire life (54 years) and remember when there were many, many reservoirs and dams in the hills around So. Cal. You can still go hiking up in the Angeles National Forest north of LA and see several abandoned reservoirs / dams that were built from the early 1900’s through the 1960s. That’s 60 years worth of infrastructure that was built because the people that governed and built California knew what they were doing.
But jackasses like Moonbeam, Nancy Pelosi, Bawbaw Boxer, Diane Finkelstein, and Maxine “shit for brains” Waters took over the state and dor 50 years have diverted money needed for infrastructure into teachers unions, public employee unions, and LaRaza.
Most the pity.
This is entire situation is the result of liberalism run amok without restraint.
Not too far from our old place, just the other side of 5.
Well “stuff” does happen. You are not the only one who has ever gone through a disaster.
Looks like the storm went south. Oroville got its divine intervention. Another storm coming this weekend.
Good luck and God speed to your friends.
Thank you.
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Wow, that’s a LOT of water - in the ballpark of the Ohio River @ Cairo, IL, on average.
I’m curious, though. Your levees are stressed, and you say the San Joaquin river is about 5 inches BELOW flood stage? Around here, the water would probably be many feet above flood stage, B4 levees were threatened at all...
Please don’t think I’m being callous but 2016 was a bad year for Louisiana in regard to flooding. 2005 is what flooded me out.
“... 2005 is what flooded me out ...”
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If that is indeed the case, then you should fully understand
that there ain’t a damn thing funny or flippant about it.
May GOD bless you and yours.
I remember the flood we had in the same area, near the Mossdale Y, west of Manteca. It was either ‘51 or ‘52
Hey, I was just expressing the official policy of the Governor of California. You better take it up with him.
Yeah, then a lot of stuff happens all at once.
That's what we call a "stuff storm" where I live, but out in Moonbeam-land they probably call it California Dreamin'.
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Just heard a radio report that Oroville may be the least of their problems. Plenty of evacuations in that area but it isn’t one of them.
I agree but down here in Louisiana people tend to take things in stride. It seems like there is always something bad happening. Like that tornado, which was unusually large for this area, that hit New Orleans about two weeks ago. The parades still rolled.
Some of my best friends in life have been Cajun.
They have a whole different outlook on like.
Laissez les bons temps rouler.
How can reservoirs and dams be abandoned? Are the reservoirs empty? Crumbled?
Sense of humor there, Mr. Repeal! Sense of humor now! LOL!
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