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Emergency: California’s Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure, Evacuations Ordered
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| Feb 12, 2017
| Joel B. Pollak1
Posted on 02/12/2017 4:26:47 PM PST by janetjanet998
Edited on 02/12/2017 9:33:58 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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The California Department of Water Resources issued a sudden evacuation order shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday for residents near the Oroville Dam in northern California, warning that the dams emergency spillway would fail in the next 60 minutes.
The Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: butte; california; dam; dwr; evacuation; lakeoroville; liveoroville; moonbeamcanyon; moonbeammadness; oroville; orovilledam; orovillelive; runaway; spillway; sutter; water; yuba
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To: cloudmountain
I usually don’t use this kind of language but I’ll make an exception in your case.
You’re an ass.
This isn’t about forecasting weather. This is about a critical situation that really exists and really threatens to kill real people.
People are most likely going to die when that thing lets go and they are not out of the way.
Maybe lots of them if they can’t get out of the path of the flood waters when the dam lets go.
Water is NOT compressible.
That wall of water is going to hit whatever is in it’s path with probably millions of tons of weight and wipe it off the map.
It’s going to be an inland tsunami.
1,561
posted on
02/19/2017 4:51:39 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: EarthResearcher333
Ya know, I think I ‘know’ you from somewhere..... :)
1,562
posted on
02/19/2017 4:54:37 PM PST
by
txhurl
(The LEFT are screaming at the Tsunami, and the Sky, trying to set fire to the Ocean- S.Tom)
To: metmom
Remember, the depth of reservoir water at risk of a rapid, uncontrolled release is basically only 30-50 feet (down to “good” badrock on the sidehill). I am not minimizing what that amount of water can do in terms of flooding - death and property damage - but it is far from the entire contents of the lake. If the more solid bedrock is deeper yet than the water release could be bigger.
1,563
posted on
02/19/2017 5:01:55 PM PST
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: janetjanet998
Great.
High winds mean waves.
1,564
posted on
02/19/2017 5:03:47 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: txhurl
As above, so below. This is two 'tributaries' feeding a larger 'river'.
1,565
posted on
02/19/2017 5:13:29 PM PST
by
txhurl
(The LEFT are screaming at the Tsunami, and the Sky, trying to set fire to the Ocean- S.Tom)
To: EarthResearcher333
Wow! Thanks for finding and posting. Fascinating.
1,566
posted on
02/19/2017 5:15:31 PM PST
by
SE Mom
(Screaming Eagle mom)
To: steve86; dirtboy
I found this. This explains everything and it seems to me that if the emergency spillway goes and the main one through erosion, the whole dam could go.
1,567
posted on
02/19/2017 5:36:17 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: steve86
Here is another image that helps understand the whole situation.
1,568
posted on
02/19/2017 5:39:54 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: maggief
Wow...that is very much damage.
1,569
posted on
02/19/2017 5:44:07 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(( miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
To: metmom
Pay me now or pay me more later...
A stitch in time saves nine...
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...
Hind-site is 20/20...
etc., etc., etc.
1,570
posted on
02/19/2017 5:51:14 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
To: metmom
Metmom - could you send me the link? I’d like to pass that on.
1,571
posted on
02/19/2017 5:59:17 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
To: metmom
I like how they mention the 2005 ecological groups suit that they lost. They say it was against the Feds. In fact the Fed’s were peripheral and the suit was against the State. The state of California owns this pig and could have overlaid the top of the emergency run off area at any time. In fact. they could have topped it for much less than the figure mentioned and it probably would have worked.
California journalists — just knee jerk placing blame on the deep pocket feds.
1,572
posted on
02/19/2017 6:04:20 PM PST
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: metmom
It explains a lot, but what happened (or didn’t) between 2005 and 2017? The Obama years are ironically left out.
1,573
posted on
02/19/2017 6:06:15 PM PST
by
meyer
(The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
To: little jeremiah
1,574
posted on
02/19/2017 6:10:01 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: metmom
I like how the wiki page gives the account of the 2009 valve accident and fails to say WHY the valve was being opened with so little formal planning. Do you think the account is given in a misleading manner because the state fisheries ecology nuts were in there having the valve opened for nothing but speculation as to how to give more cold water to river fish?
That is what I have heard and the lack of explanation makes it more glaring that the reason was something not approved by the State of warranted.
1,575
posted on
02/19/2017 6:32:51 PM PST
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: metmom
1,576
posted on
02/19/2017 6:33:43 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
To: EarthResearcher333
Incredible research and history!
1,577
posted on
02/19/2017 6:40:07 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
To: janetjanet998; Mariner
1,578
posted on
02/19/2017 6:54:10 PM PST
by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
To: Big Red Badger
To: tomkat
15:50 houseboats?
18:40, 21:36, 23:21 flooded flatlands
20:38 up close at the dump truck gravel site at the dam
26:00 route 20 closed
1,580
posted on
02/19/2017 7:32:48 PM PST
by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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