Buy a truck, as big as you can, within the next hour.
Fill it with everything you can from home in the subsequent hour.
Flee.
Being home beats most all other options, even if you have to keep one eye on a dam!
Dam is not repaired yet. They have just put you back in danger while they fix it.
My advice is keep your vehicle gassed up and bags/precious items ready to move at a moment’s notice.
In the 1955 flood, my family obeyed the evacuation order for Marysville. We left Marysville and went across the river to Yuba City for safety. About 8 hours later, in the middle of night, the Civil Defense horn was sounded in Yuba City because the levee had broken on the Yuba City side. We raced to the car and drove west, not stopping until we got to the coast range. Marysville never did flood. We had family friends who were closer to the break than we were who literally waded to their cars in rapidly rising water and just barely made it down the road to the west. 34 people didn’t make it.
From one of the on-site principal engineers:
Hole is only 8% filled. The hole in the spillway is leaking back into the reservoir.
Direct Quote: “Stay the hell out of Oroville.”
Use the opportunity to get irreplaceables and go back to where you came from.
Water finds a way. OSO proved that. No warning and the hill came down on an entire community.
YOU KNOW what the situation is there. Get the rest of what you need and go back to someplace not in the flow pattern of that dam.
As an engineer, that’s my advice. Repairs on that thing will likely take draining it, or diverting the water back away from the damage and repairing it. $100M is the number they are yanking from their nether regions. I don’t buy it.
Essentially, Oroville has a time bomb under it. Best way to think of it. It’s unexploded ordnance.
Here’s the link to the thread with the videos.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3524910/posts
2 videos up there of a worker interviewing a principal engineer. Engineers - real ones - can’t lie. It’s just not in them.
Check it out, get your stuff, get back to where you were.
Sorry, go to post 883 and scroll toward the end of the thread.