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. [history]
The Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.
With 200,000 people having been run out of their homes and lives, the prospect of nooses/trees/lamp posts is not hard to imagine.
Give these crooks more money, another blank check?!
Actually, at the exact same time you were posting, I was thinking tar and feathers.
Association of Dam Safety Officials
I was wondering if the Oroville Dam is insured. If so, would that come in to play? And why the hell the dam's insurers haven't been raising holy hell about lack of repairs.
Heck, why weren't any of these people/groups screaming bloody murder?!
Thanks for this data. Very scary.
Are you a geologist or as Sheldon would say a rock guy?
Q: Were county and/or state safety protocols in place, preferably in writing, for evac in the event of dam failure? If so, where are they? Did the public, in addition to public officials, have access to the info? Are any existing protocols in use? If there were contingency plans to aid evacuees, what were they and are they working?
I hope he decided to leave after all. Even if his home is above the dam and lake level, the whole area may be destroyed and they could be trapped in there quite some time.
Dumber than a bag full of Geologists.
Trump needs to get out in front of this. Declare the national emergency while keep pounding that Californias state government wasted billions and refused to deal with this crisis. The media will try to turn this into “Katrina” for him, you see if they don’t. Governor Brown didn’t give a c___p about the poor working and middle class people ( majority conservative) and engineers who could see disaster coming who had been begging for funds for TWELVE YEARS!! These people are so selfish and vile and evil and it makes me FURIOUS knowing that the MSM will happily and viciously lie through there teeth and try to blame a Trump. There are ignorant people out there who will believe it. God I wish CNN could be brought down.
Praying for those poor souls there and for Trump’s wisdom as he tries to deal with this along with all the other betrayals and long knives out for him.
This reply by EarthResearcher333, may be one of the best non govermental reports/analsis of this disaster.
As my good Marine buddies would say what an incredible CF!
Please keep posting these good articles and replies.
Jeff Session might use them before the year is out.
These American refugees 200,000? need help and our donations.
FEMA had a few thousand blankets and a couple of bottles of water.
A Chico state grad friend, said most of these refugees are lucky to have a week or two of savings between them and bank ruptcy.
In the meantime, Moonbeam and our local and national mediots are focusing/crying about the arrests of illegal criminals/felons.
The mediots are showing how evil Trump is because of these arrests, which should have happened years ago during Obama term of welcome to America, illegals, criminals and jihadists.
If Moonbeam had his priorities based on legal citizen needs, proper maintenance would have done on this dam.
Instead illegals got free medical care, cell phones, free school for their kids with free meals at the, ebt cards, and who knows what else besides costly lawyers paid by our tax $’s.
Of course Moonbeam in his liberal senility, spent money on his bullet train from nowhere to nowhere.
Dumber than a bag full of Geologists.
BOL!
FUBAR, eh?
FUBAR, if you are/were in the Navy/Marine Corp was the warning coming from the Navy petty officers and/or Marine Sarg’s that something was not going as planned.
It usually was up to those guys above to get a handle on the problem and do Rube Goldberg stuff to get things running again.
BOHICA referred to the same problem or similar problem happening again.
Oroville Dam: Crisis highlights need for repairs to Anderson Dam, other California dams.
As of 2015, California oversaw 1,250 dams, of which 678 were deemed “high hazard”
Excerpt: Go to link below for another mess created by lack of proper maintenance due to our rats in charge at Sacramento.
Wonder what Moonbeam and his fellow rats spent our Tax $’ s on after they destroyed Prop 187. It was not on maintaining our dams as over 50% of dams are in need of serious repairs!
http://www.redding.com/story/news/2017/02/09/dam-spillway-checked-distance-last-inspection/97723936/
Dam spillway checked from ‘distance’ in last inspection
Published 6:16 p.m. PT Feb. 9, 2017
http://www.kcra.com/article/oroville-spillway-outflows-increase-as-damage-continues/8701837
According to the July 2015 inspection report, “The FCO structure appeared to be satisfactory with no visible concrete or structural deficiencies.”
However, the report also indicates the inspection was done visually and inspectors did not walk the spillway.
“The discharge channel was not walked this time; however, a visual inspection from some distance indicated no visible signs of concrete deficiencies,” the report states.
Feds, Calif. disagree on seismic safety of U.S. tallest dam
Published 9 December 2013
Ronald Stork, a senior policy advocate at Friends of the River,noted that the Oroville Dam exhibits a case of reservoir-induced seismicity. In such a case, the reservoir itself can cause earthquakes due to the weight of water stored behind the dam being large enough to shift the earth’s crust. Studies have documented the case at Oroville. “A dam with a whole lot of shaking going on … does seem to be something you need to be really careful about,” said Stork, who monitors dam regulation across the state. “You lose a 3.5million acre-foot reservoir — the tallest in the United States — and that could cause a whole mess of downstream trouble.”
Any suggested repairs from the proposed assessment at Oroville Dam will be paid for by twenty-nine urban and agricultural water contractors which purchase water from the State Water Project. Contractors are hesitant to absorb new costs which will be eventually passed on to their customers. Recently, two expensive and high-profile accidents which occurred at the dam have resulted in millions of dollars in costs.
Whoa...I can’t even imagine.
I live in Tuolumne county, about an hour north of Yosemite. We have had OVER sixty inches of rain, and counting... They usually get more than we do in the Feather River watershed.
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