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.
The last they heard, it was expected to fail some time before the rain hit. Most likely Wednesday afternoon or evening.
Definitely going to keep a wary eye on the situation.
Yep...what I said in #886. This should have mobilized everyone in the state, in the national guard...everyone.
Makes sense now...if...that rumor is true.
Can you save this one?
Found “Stay the hell out of Oroville “ again.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CX4r6CCyeJU
This situation is horrible.
I hope this engineer isn’t right.
Not too many helos with more capacity than that, methinks.
Yep, gimme a couple minutes . . .
Moonbeam is out of money. Cali is in BIG trouble.
The Republican legislature wants to block bullet train funds.
Sanctuary cities are about to be cut them off from federal funds, and the place is over-run with illegals.
calPERS is near collapse.
An aging infrastructure has been underfunded and not maintained.
Perhaps a catastrophic disaster is the only way Moonbeam can tap into Trump’s proposed infrastructure investment, meanwhile Brown maintains his liberal persona.
/justmytake
I am not in the habit of trusting public officials but I can't imagine they'd make this decision knowing that those-in-the-know continue to expect it to fail.
But then, they limited the outflow of the primary spillway at 55 to 65,000 cfs even though that spillway was capable of handling over 100,000 cfs. I heard as high as 250,000. At one point, the water flowing into Lake Oroville was at about 195,000.
So the capability to release more water than was being taken in was always there.
I think they didn't want to take a chance on washing the rest of the spillway down into the river because that might cause the water to back up to the base of the dam where the powerhouse is.
If the powerhouse flooded, they wouldn't be able to control the gates.
My guess is that you are underestimating just how incompetent the Kalifornia .gov is at every level.
That link in #896 is video .. mp4
I don't think the refineries and bridges will be impacted much at all from a surge. There will be enough advance warning to get traffic off bridges that will see a surge. The bridges are strong enough to take a small surge. There is a lot of debris on the Oroville Lake, logs and branches etc., and it is kept away from the dam rim by rope barriers and such. Only if the barriers holding back the debris were to fail and the debris escaped the lake, would there be concern downstream. Not likely to happen. By the time a surge reached the Bay, it will have reduced in size from the initial 30 feet to only a few feet, if at all. Remember, much of the water would end up breaking levees and flood low-lying neighborhoods around Sacramento, well away from the Bay.
Someone on another forum regarding Oroville dam:
“What concerns me is the possible backlash against innocent Muslims this could create.”
I very much hope there’s nothing to worry about.
I’d love to find out that the latest videos are a hoax, but the discussion on YouTube looks very serious and the information in the videos is not in disagreement with our previous information.
Over the last few months, CalPers divested funds away from companies that weren't politically correct. As a result, they lost over $900 million in the last few months during the market boom. State of California will have to make up the difference to pensioners because CalPers doesn't have the funds to pay pensioners. Real smart oversight, not!
Pre-Oroville ...
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/jerry_browns_bullet_train_fiasco_and_trump.html
California governor Jerry Brown has staked out the turf as President-Elect Trump’s opponent, hiring Eric Holder to gin up a legal strategy and appointing Congressman Xavier Bacera as his A.G. to oppose anticipated Trump policies in sanctuary cities, the environment, and what some call California’s “values.”
But I have to wonder if Brown doesn’t have a vulnerable flank in this battle: the looming financial collapse of his most cherished project, the so-called “bullet train” between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times published information from a “confidential” Federal Railroad Administration report that was leaked to it revealing absolute incompetence and out-of-control overspending on the first segment under construction. The report by Ralph Vartabedian should be read in its entirety to grasp the level of chaos in the project:
California’s bullet train could cost taxpayers 50% more than estimated ...
Thank you!
Yep. Remember when the Dems/Media were calling for the head of the Michigan Gov - R, for the Detroit water crisis???
They’re suspiciously silent over Moonbeam’s Mishap.
Insanity!
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