https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAuYuyCcYB8
White Spots on Oroville Dam. Rising air?
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.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3524910/posts
I have been following this thread... Based on the information I have garnered, wondering WHY the authorities have lifted the “mandatory evacuation”?
I’d be heading back to town with a trailer to pack up as many belongings as possible ... and be out of town by Thursday or Friday.
Thanks. It’s hard to know how to read what he said...at least to me. Not sure if he meant because of the evacuation order and ensuing chaos or that it’s going to be inundated. ..seemed casual..
Going to read what I missed while at work...I imagine the pressure on LE to lift evacuation order was intense.
Not as warm? I am not betting on that and I am in the middle of the track.
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service RENO NV
338 AM PST Tue Feb 14 2017
CAZ070>073-NVZ001>005-150100-
Surprise Valley California-Lassen-Eastern Plumas-
Eastern Sierra Counties-Greater Lake Tahoe Area-Mono County-
Mineral and Southern Lyon Counties-Greater Reno-Carson City-
Minden Area-Western Nevada Basin and Range including Pyramid Lake-
Northern Washoe County-
Including the cities of Cedarville, Eagleville, Fort Bidwell,
Portola, Susanville, Westwood, Sierraville, Loyalton,
South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City, Truckee, Markleeville, Bridgeport,
Coleville, Lee Vining, Mammoth Lakes, Hawthorne, Yerington,
Smith Valley, Mina, Schurz, Stateline, Glenbrook,
Incline Village, Sparks, Verdi, Gardnerville, Virginia City,
Fernley, Fallon, Lovelock, Silver Springs, Nixon, Imlay, Empire,
and Gerlach
338 AM PST Tue Feb 14 2017
...Active Weather Pattern Returns Thursday...
A series of weak to moderate storms is expected to impact the
region beginning Thursday and potentially lasting through the
middle of next week. There is potential for strong winds across
the Sierra Front Range and along the Highway 395 and Interstate
580 corridor late Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
Additional rain and snow will create periods of difficult travel
conditions in the Sierra. Current projections don`t indicate any
strong storms. However, with very wet antecedent conditions in
lower elevations and exceptionally deep snowpack at higher
elevations, even small amounts of precipitation could create
renewed flooding concerns.
The main flooding concerns will continue to be along smaller
streams, areas of poor drainage, and main stem rivers in northeast
California such as the Pit, Susan and Middle Fork Feather, which
have already seen flooding this past week.
Our recommendations are to utilize the next two dry weather days
to clear snow, mud and debris from storm drains and poor drainage
areas, and to keep flood mitigation measures in place.
$$
Interview with the guy who ‘engineered’ the repair to the ES says, “Stay the hell out of Oroville.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX4r6CCyeJU
Oroville dam spillway this is not good
Published on Feb 14, 2017
Worker said about 8% of the hole is filled and stay the hell out of Oroville
https://www.facebook.com/KCRA3/videos/vb.115763581513/10155031720176514/?type=3&theater
-2:20ISH
OR ABOUT 2 minutes from the end..you can see fresh red dirt on the left hand side..not up by the waterfall or towers but down the hill more
That alert area spans the -entire width- of the San Joaquin valley.
Wow. A friend and I were just talking and we are concerned that people won’t leave next time the evacuation order is issued.
Thanks for posting great finds!
What about the refineries and bridges?
THAT IS exactly what was predicted when they sounded the first alarm!
Per that engineer, 5-10” of rain in the forecast??
or try 28:16 lower left hand side of the screen..I don’t believe it was as large as yesterday
https://www.facebook.com/KCRA3/videos/vb.115763581513/10155031720176514/?type=3&theater
Thanks for the link. The story however does not seem to include any possible ecological reason they were messing with the relief valve.
Perhaps would it be too politically charged if that work was done for a non safety related purpose?
8%...
That is significant.
I’d do the run home, pack, weep, pray, and leave...
Yep .. wider area, more streams, more runoff/drainage, higher reservoir
My understanding is that he was just coming into office as Governor and was able to serve as the State’s Governor during the dedication but the Dam and Lake had start many years before he was elected.
OK, at the spot where the main spillway water turns turbulent, I can see a slice of red dirt to the left.
That wasn’t there before; most of the erosion was to the right of that spot.
I think there may be another further down, but the turbulent water makes it hard to see right next to the spillway.
How far away horizontally from the spillway is the patch you mentioned?
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