Emergency: California’s Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure, Evacuations Ordered

Breitbart ^ | Feb 12, 2017 | Joel B. Pollak1

[janetjanet998]

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 dam’s emergency spillway would fail in the next 60 minutes.

The Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.

[meyer]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3523808/posts?q=1&;page=1#1

Links to some pictures and videos.

[Seaplaner]

Whoa! From your first link, "101% total capacity"

One does not believe that we are getting the full, complete, and truthful story here.

Good wishes and luck to the Orovillians, (and those downstream along the Feather River.)

[Battle Axe]

Are you familiar with the history of the 1955 flood in Yuba City and Marysville. The two towns sit at the confluence of the Yuba and Feather rivers. The Yuba river comes in at sort of an angle and the gubmint told everyone in Marysville to evacuate. The the levy broke on the west side of the Feather thereby flooding Yuba City. My friend was outside and heard it. There were 7 kids and the mom left at the house, the dad had been conscripted to sandbag. The oldest boy was a polio victim still on crutches and the next oldest boy was 12. They were quite poor and had just won a TV, but there was no room for the TV in the small station wagon. They put the TV on the sofa and left for the bay area. The water inside the house was almost to the ceiling of the first floor. For three days the Red Cross hunted for them and they were finally reunited. When they plugged that TV in, it worked! There were dead chickens everywhere.

It was a shock to everyone that the levy broke where it did. The neighbors lived in a brick house and did not hear the levy break, nor did they hear the deputy on the bullhorn trying to wake every one up. They were rescued from their 2nd story roof by helicopter, there were 600 that were rescued that way.

Sounds like de-ja-vu all over again.

[janetjanet998]

thats not the emergency spillway..thats the eroded controlled spillway

[digger48]

Thaaat’s not good

[soycd]

>Where did the money go to maintain the dam properly?pissed away on social services to illegals?

Yep. And now no doubt they want we that work for a living to pay for their idiocy. ESAS you ignorant morons and illegal enablers.

[dfwgator]

Yep, they won’t blame Jerry Brown, they’ll blame Trump, you can bet on that.

[WMarshal]

BREAKING: Officials warn of collapse of emergency spillway at Oroville
FEBRUARY 12, 2017 4:44 PM PST

“They have what they expect to be an imminent failure of the axillary spillway,” said Mike Smith, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “What they’re expecting is as much as 30 vertical feet of the top of the spillway could fail and could fail within one to two hours. We don’t know how much water that means, but we do know is that’s potentially 30 feet of depth of Lake Oroville.”

[sissyjane]

May fail within the hour.

[maggief]

I know, but it’s not good either.

[maggief]

Cecile Juliette KHSL @CecileJuliette 21m21 minutes ago

DWR: Officials anticipate failure of Auxiliary Spillway Oroville Dam within the next 60 minutes.

[editor-surveyor]

.
Gov Moonbeam is such a godsend!

Democrat rule is about to drown thousands in the Sacramento valley.

The nation’s most powerful state is powerless to follow common sense.

President Trump: please take over the state of California immediately!

You can rename it Katrina II.
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[21twelve]

teeth should mean “teenth” not ten, as in “building umpteenth number of dams”.

[meyer]

Glad that you posted the image. As you mentioned in your videos, the “red” water is dirt being eroded. It’s eroding fast. A little on the left side too. But there may be new concern if the spillway structure farther up near the top starts failing. Then the dam itself won’t be relevant any more.

[Rome2000]

LOL

Trump has nothing to do with this.

It’s all Jerry Brown, Feinstein, and Obama.

[raybbr]

Ther are FReepers living in harm’s way of this. I you stop being a thread cop for a minute and were following this you’d know.

[abb]

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html

February 12, 2017 4:44 PM
BREAKING: Officials warn of collapse of emergency spillway at Oroville

By Ryan Sabalow
rsabalow@sacbee.com

Officials are warning those living downstream of Lake Oroville’s dam to evacuate because of a risk that the dam’s emergency spillway could collapse.

“They have what they expect to be an imminent failure of the axillary spillway,” said Mike Smith, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “What they’re expecting is as much as 30 vertical feet of the top of the spillway could fail and could fail within one to two hours. We don’t know how much water that means, but we do know that’s potentially 30 feet of depth of Lake Oroville.”

The Department of Water Resources, which operates the dam, said in a 4:42 p.m. Twitter post that the emergency spillway could fail within the next hour.

“Oroville residents evacuate northward,” the Tweet said.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html#storylink=cpy

[VTenigma]

I think the Grand Canyon was solid earth at one time, rock infact.

[snarkpup]

They are desperately looking for a Republican to blame.

There's already a youtube video blaming global warming. It went up during the first couple of days.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Found news articles on the evacuation...

http://fox40.com/2017/02/12/evacuations-ordered-for-parts-of-oroville-due-to-hazardous-situation-developing-at-emergency-spillway/

http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/butte/evacuation-orders-for-low-levels-of-oroville/330519833

http://www.kcra.com/article/evacuation-orders-issued-for-low-levels-of-oroville/8735215

I tend to be skeptical about items posted without a linked source.