Posted on 02/14/2017 2:19:38 PM PST by NoLibZone
Authorities lifted mandatory evacuation orders Tuesday for communities below the Oroville Dam.
At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea announced the order had been changed to an evacuation warning after he said the risk of flooding had been reduced.
"We have concluded it is safe to reduce the emergency evacuation order to an evacuation warning"said Honea, who had made the initial call Sunday to evacuate a large swath of three counties below the imperiled dam.
At the time, residents were told the spillway to the dam could collapse within an hour.
Roadblocks on the two main highways leading to Oroville were dismantled without announcement by midday Tuesday.
"Thousands of lives were protected" and the loss of the spillway was averted, Honea said.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Do not trust a thing they tell ya. Stay away longer if you can.
This is the mistake.
Prayers answered....Now fix the dam properly and stop building bullet trains to nowhere and do infrastructure improvements and for God sakes you stupid dems that run calif...build new resorviors Oroville is almost fifty and you stopped building them shortly after that while your population sky rocketed..
Freegards
LEX
Prayers answered....Now fix the dam properly and stop building bullet trains to nowhere and do infrastructure improvements and for God sakes you stupid dems that run calif...build new resorviors Oroville is almost fifty and you stopped building them shortly after that while your population sky rocketed..
Freegards
LEX
Yup.
Strongly advise that residents heed the warning and stay away until the next weather system passes...
To much to soon.
It was bound to happen, hubris and all...
Meanwhile, it looks like a good week of solid rain starts tomorrow:
https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/USCA0818:1:US
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They lowered the water level below the bottom of the emergency “spillway”
On their website they said they wanted to draw it down 50’ before the next system. At the rate they were going they would have it down by 16 feet by Weds. morning when the new rains come. If I lived there I would stay away. Or - drive back home and load up more stuff and head back out if I could do it all in the next 14 hours. Better safe than sorry.
Sounds like a bad movie. Build the suspense, flee and all the chaos that ensues, then breathe a sigh of relief as they get the all clear to head back home. As they are smiling and driving back home, opening up there doors, meeting neighbors, etc. Interspersed with camera views of the rain, the water rising again, and an underwater camera views of bubbles rising from the spillway, soils washing out, etc.
I wouldn’t trust these experts, but I sure hope that they are right and that disaster has been averted.
five inches rain due in next week https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Oroville%2C+CA
“There’s a real good chance that this lifting of the evac order so soon is gonna get people killed.”
Yes, you have to ask yourself, “can I outrun a 30 ft high wall of water if the dam wall at the top of the emergency spillway does fail.”
Immediately upon return all residents should begin preparation for an extended evacuation in the near future.
The mountains above Oroville are full of snow and the weatherman says 5-8 inches of rain is coming in the next 7 days. And nothing of significance has been done to upgrade the integrity of the dam.
And in other news form California:
Gov Brown announces 25,000 more illegals will get free college educations.
Only if the weather forecast had substantially changed should this have been done (it hasn’t).
Agreed.
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