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There’s the threat of Oroville Dam. Then there’s Trump
The Sacramento Bee ^ | February 13th, 2017 | Erika D. Smith

Posted on 02/13/2017 8:59:54 PM PST by Mariner

It all happened so quickly. Water poured down the rapidly eroding hillside of Oroville Dam on Sunday evening. Engineers with the state had to make a series of quick decisions to avert a catastrophic flood.

When they weren’t sure it would work, the Butte County Sheriff’s Department made the gutsy call to evacuate tens of thousands of residents in a matter of hours. By Monday, state and local officials were working alongside the Federal Emergency Management Agency to determine the next steps in a still dangerous situation.

This is what should happen when people’s lives are in danger, this beautiful example of cooperation at all levels of government to resolve a crisis. Politics be damned.

But, I fear, that’s not how Donald Trump works. It doesn’t matter that most of the evacuees voted for him.

The president, incredibly, said nothing Sunday as people frantically fled three counties – Yuba, Sutter and Butte – in the nation’s most populous state. Instead, he tweeted about “fake news,” “enthusiastic supporters in Florida,” and how his “crackdown on illegal criminals” was merely about keeping his promise to rid the country of “gang members” and “drug dealers.”

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; evacuation; first100days; oroville; redzones; rural; trump; trump45; trumpfema; water
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To: dr_lew

As per “dutchsinse” the earthquake predicting channel on youtube, if you check the googleearth height above sea level, the dam top is at 900 ft, and the stream at the bottom is at 200 feet, for a drop of 700 feet. The river then further drops to either 28 or 20 feet above sea level at Sacramento. (I can’t remember, but you can check googleearth.)


41 posted on 02/13/2017 11:42:09 PM PST by Norski
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To: dr_lew

As per “dutchsinse” the earthquake predicting channel on youtube, if you check the googleearth height above sea level, the dam top is at 900 ft, and the stream at the bottom is at 200 feet, for a drop of 700 feet. The river then further drops to either 28 or 20 feet above sea level at Sacramento. (I can’t remember, but you can check googleearth.)


42 posted on 02/13/2017 11:42:19 PM PST by Norski
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To: Mariner
The writer:



Here is an example of why some species eat their young.
43 posted on 02/13/2017 11:45:32 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: BenLurkin

OMG we had an evacuation and the president our state has shown nothing but contempt for has not said anything about us yet waahhhh.


44 posted on 02/14/2017 12:23:51 AM PST by kelly4c
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To: Parley Baer
This is incredibly full of crap. The bussed in Sorosites instantly become the Trump voters.
45 posted on 02/14/2017 12:30:01 AM PST by arthurus
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To: Mariner

Yes, SacBee (S for you know what), the fact is that (I remember seeing/reading them) until a very few days ago the nation was getting the equivalent of “move along, nothing to see here” from California officials and other state venues (maybe like you?).

The time to prevent the disaster was months/years ago when funds were allocated and work left undone because money was needed elsewhere for other things like illegals and high speed trains. Yet now with imminent disaster approaching, you and all your other bureaucrats throw up you hands and cast this black heart political stone. Fie on you. Fie on you.

Were it not that the people in that area are not the crazy liberal loons like those much farther south and westward to the see and it was these areas the ones in the pickle, I’d say they all can be evacuated using that high speed rail to nowhere. Sod all on you SACBEE.


46 posted on 02/14/2017 2:37:45 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: PA Engineer

An ignorant tree swinging baboon!


47 posted on 02/14/2017 2:55:12 AM PST by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: Mariner
All,

Read the first few paragraphs again, and tell me if you thin Erika Smith's screed sounds like a letter or email from a psycho ex-lover that you once broke up with.

48 posted on 02/14/2017 3:04:05 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Mariner

Hahahahahaha! TRUMP’S FAULT!


49 posted on 02/14/2017 4:08:13 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: piytar

“Say four Hail Mary’s and five Our Fathers and go forth and sin no more.”

We all know what you mean.


50 posted on 02/14/2017 4:11:24 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Mariner

Q for the SacBee: Where’s Gov Moonbeam?


51 posted on 02/14/2017 4:27:43 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Mariner

Again the left shoots too soon and into the crowd. This is now Trumps Katrina? The dam did not yet fail and it’s Trumps fault?
Pelosi was saying Flynn was an impeachable offense, lies... there is no balance. They are unhinged.


52 posted on 02/14/2017 4:50:14 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Mariner

If I have a leaky toilet in my house and fail to fix it, whose fault is it after it floods my house? I needed that money to buy a new TV which I thought was more important and now I want taxpayer money to help me out.

That is how liberals think! If Trump gives them any money I’m going to be pissed. Let Hollywood stooges fork over the money, or give them the money on a loan basis. I have no sympathy for people that don’t know how to live within their budget.


53 posted on 02/14/2017 5:17:51 AM PST by New Jersey Realist (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: Just mythoughts

Like truth and facts ever intrude on a proggie writer’s mission to demonize the right. Today’s poster child for proggie idiocy.


54 posted on 02/14/2017 5:33:56 AM PST by polymuser
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To: Paladin2

I lived in CA the first time this idiot was Guv.

He’s among the population control crowd who want to see CA’s ag industry diminished, lest they be able to help feed the country and the world.

That’s why they don’t give a damn about dams.


55 posted on 02/14/2017 6:39:07 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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