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The video shows there is not nearly enough men, equipment or materials to make a dent in this monster.

More storms starting Wednesday evening...just 48hrs.

They are letting water out as fast as they can. This is a dramatic race against time and nature, and the stakes could not be higher.

1 posted on 02/13/2017 7:18:20 PM PST by Mariner
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Yep, they need to run the regulated spillway at 100k cfs from now until forever to get a head start on near future incoming. Fixing the regulated spillway is way off in the future. Segregating the Spillways from the shoulder of the dam is paramount to saving the day.


2 posted on 02/13/2017 7:24:03 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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California has three major problems:

1) Terrible, terrible drought
2) Overflowing reservoirs
3) More rain is coming


3 posted on 02/13/2017 7:27:38 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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Little too little too late?

Prayers up, for all in harms way.


4 posted on 02/13/2017 7:28:00 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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Just damn.

If only they’d done this in the many dry years. Hope no lives are lost in the effort. Sounds dangerous, especially near the power lines and with old equipment.


5 posted on 02/13/2017 7:29:09 PM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: Rewrite all schoolbooks K-12!)
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Baskets of rocks? This is a joke. Moonbat should have asked Trump for immediate help and assessment of level of effort to mitigate the situation... most likely the Army Corps of Engineers. Sikorskys could be dropping hundreds of 40 ton mothballed tanks into that giant hole.

After the next drought, fill it up with concrete.

6 posted on 02/13/2017 7:29:37 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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Why dont they just drive down to home depot pick up some labors and shovels do i have to think or everything


8 posted on 02/13/2017 7:33:35 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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Bet it’s going to be tough selling property there for a while.


10 posted on 02/13/2017 7:33:56 PM PST by umgud
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The state has known that they had a problem for a decade. They did nothing. Not when the low waters of the drought exposed a much easier landscape for repairs to be made.
They had other priorities for the money. Aiding and abetting hordes of illegals financially.
The cost to provide food, shelter, and other free stuff exceeds the tax revenue paid by the illegals by 90%. It’s in the Billions.
Oroville and Yuba City are just sacrificial lambs for the lunatic liberal save the illegals effort. Moonbeam and Hollywood have other priorities.


20 posted on 02/13/2017 7:42:20 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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The UN and EPA should come to the rescue here, simultaneously demonstrating how they will stop the rise of the earth’s temperature.

1) Simply install a big bubble around the dam so no air goes in or out without your control.

2) Remove the carbon dioxide from within the bubble.

3) Write a check for one million dollars to a third world country (this is, after, a small scale version)

The water around the dam will freeze and we will all be saved!


21 posted on 02/13/2017 7:42:56 PM PST by fruser1
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Weather channel today was covering this.. I had it on as background noise. They showed a small pile of stones and helicopters... it sure did not look to be enough to fill any portion of what has been washed out. I sure hope those in charge know what they are doing, but I have my doubts.


22 posted on 02/13/2017 7:43:38 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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Wow. I didn’t realize the town was that close to the dam.


27 posted on 02/13/2017 7:51:02 PM PST by waus
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does anyone remember Hurricane Katrina?

why didn’t they...

drive , school busses. dumptrucks...
off the bridge, where the 17th St Canal,
connects to Lake Ponchartrane.

anything would have been better than nothing


29 posted on 02/13/2017 7:56:58 PM PST by RockyTx
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> primary and auxiliary spillways

Used to be called primary and “emergency” spillways.


34 posted on 02/13/2017 8:10:05 PM PST by glorgau
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Click The Pic

42 posted on 02/13/2017 8:34:33 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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Is anyone up for a pool (pun intended) on the day the emergency spillway breaches? I pick Sunday, February 19.


48 posted on 02/13/2017 8:40:05 PM PST by Thud
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So is the drought over now?


49 posted on 02/13/2017 8:40:19 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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OMG, just think of the illegals not getting a paycheck while CA deals with real issues ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZK5TC4a088


50 posted on 02/13/2017 8:40:58 PM PST by soycd
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OMG, just think of the illegals not getting a paycheck while CA deals with real issues ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZK5TC4a088


51 posted on 02/13/2017 8:40:58 PM PST by soycd
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In 6 months they will wish they had all that water they are releasing.


55 posted on 02/13/2017 8:47:45 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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About time, Jerry Brown. Hire Americans.


71 posted on 02/13/2017 9:43:15 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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