Excellent footage, thanks.
From our local paper today. http://www.orovillemr.com/general-news/20170227/oroville-dam-operators-stop-flow-down-spillway-see-extensive-damage?source=most_viewed
We never evacuated as we lived above the dam. It was pretty harrowing though as us folks that stayed behind couldn’t get any food, etc as all the stores were closed for miles around. There was a market opened at Lakeside, but they couldn’t get any deliveries as roads were closed.
While our experience was nothing to the level of those that experienced Tornados or Hurricanes or actual floods, it was still something to think about.
Gov wants money from the Feds to fix the damage. Why did the state vote for billions for this very thing? What a mess and us locals are none to happy about it.
I was expecting it to keep eating its way to the top.
Hundreds of thousands of tons of dirt and rock now going downstream in the river below.
Leave it “as is”...down to bedrock already, and looks more “natural” now. ;-)
amazing the power of water under the force of gravity. just a few days of spill way water and a new canyon is born.
The power of water.
Since Mother Nature has already done most of the excavation, would it make sense to broaden the spillway? I suppose one might keep it the same at the top, which looks sound enough, but it could fan out below the damaged area. Would this help hydrologically? Or would it be a dumb thing to do?
MUST SEE video. Flyover by helicopter HD video.
Funny how when things like this happen fly-over country nobody gives damn(no pun intended).