Posted on 02/21/2017 2:13:36 PM PST by ColdOne
The National Weather Service in Reno, Nevada is warning of an "imminent" dam break about 85 miles northeast of the Reno-Lake Tahoe area.
The NWS is urging people to evacuate immediately.
URGENT: Retention basin above East Dayton, NV failing! FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 6:40PM. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. #NVWx #DamFailure pic.twitter.com/frXe8qhyI5 — NWS Reno (@NWSReno) February 21, 2017
The area was already dealing with a Winter Storm Warni
(Excerpt) Read more at whio.com ...
The key to your observation is high plains. It has somewhere to go. The most curious thing is the Dayton name and the WHIO station. I’m going to look at the USGS maps because something really bothers me about the details.
I live in the desert and am familar with retention basins. But I was looking for any type of man-made structure (a berm or concrete weir for example), but haven’t found any yet.
Okay thanks. Didn’t mean to give you a hard time. I thought that was what you meant.
Weather, it’s cyclical. Who knew?
It was my thought that sooner or later we were in for some pretty heavy rains. Well, it did turn out to be later, but here they are.
It’s kind of funny how the public obsesses over these things, led by the media generally.
Down here in the Los Angeles area, they carp for months about “...when is it going to rain, is there any rain in the five-day?” Then before the first drops fall (almost literally) they start carping about, “...when will this rain end, is there any relief in the five-day?”
El Nino and el Nina were discovered about 15-20 years ago, at least that’s when they started talking about it a lot. Now they can hardly cover the weather without mentioning them.
Now there’s a new phrase that I laugh at. They are now referring to atmospheric rivers.
Good grief...
Tere is no dam anywhere close to the town to validate a specific evacuate order that would bot apply to other towns along the same stream.
No knocking, that I remember.
Good. First thing out humans, then pets and any livestock possible, then the family photo albums. Everything else is replaceable.
Oh, that non-flood? 23+ feet.
There is a berm there I believe. If you go back to the picture posted here of the area, it would be at the bottom right of the warning area, about elev. 5000ft I’d guess.
I haven’t been up in those hills so I don’t know. Cottonwood Springs is a bit further up in the hills.
The retention dam is somewhere upslope from these coordinates:
Latitude: 39.259382
Longitude: -119.509091°
Wow, that covers houses. I’ve only had to evacuate once in my life, from a fire and was never so terrified in my life.
I had loaded up my truck and trailer, put my 5yr old in the front seat with his dog, cat in a carrier in the bed, my mink coat (lol now thinking about it), my important papers and paintings, two horses in the trailer.
I waited until the last minute when the Sheriff’s Department said you have to go now and drove out with fire on both sides of the road. Hubby stayed behind to fight fire.
That was when I was young and stupid and bullet proof. Now I consider leaving the better part of valor. The sooner the better.
If I were in the position of my friend I would have loaded up and driven over to spend the afternoon drinking coffee. He still thinks he’s bulletproof. His wife is in town working or I imagine they would be here.
Several small twisters came through night before last west of Austin and to Houston. Local news guy said 84 mph winds.
Do NOT even consider uber liberal Austin. Houston has wackadoodle Sheila Jackson Lee. A bunch of muslims were dumped in Dallas. San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Dallas and El Paso are sanctuary cities.
Gee, really? I thought they bordered China.
Just had this pop up on FB. The Coyote Creek levee broke in San Jose with flooding. Hope they are okay.
http://www.ksbw.com/article/coyote-creek-levee-breaks-floods-morgan-hill-and-san-jose/8961084
I had the same question.
You need to post a thread asking those question of Texas Freepers.
Thanks. Just has a piece on the news. News is sure it’s going to break, County Manager says 2 feet from top and it will be fine. Hard to say at this point.
I’m sorry to hear about the flooding. Hopefully it will pass soon.
Thank you. It will. Wind will come up and dry it out in no time. News is now saying snow tonight to the valley floor so at least that means an end to the rain.
Thank goodness your okay...was worried about you!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.