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Complete failure at Oroville Dam
americanthinker.com ^ | 3/18/2019 | Chriss Street

Posted on 03/18/2019 10:42:12 AM PDT by rktman

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To: bubbacluck

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Obviously you do not live downstream from the Oroville spillway.


21 posted on 03/18/2019 11:15:53 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: rktman

Send Gavin Newsom up there.

He can put his head in a hole with Jerry Brown.


22 posted on 03/18/2019 11:16:47 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ctdonath2

There’s no water coming out there.


23 posted on 03/18/2019 11:17:22 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: rktman

I realize this is the title the American Thinker gave it, but it is misleading. It makes it sound like the dam collapsed and flood water is going downstream.


24 posted on 03/18/2019 11:17:54 AM PDT by Dave W
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To: TangoLimaSierra

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Should read 100 acre-feet/sec.
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25 posted on 03/18/2019 11:18:10 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Thanks


26 posted on 03/18/2019 11:20:11 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: Joe Bfstplk

As a resident of another state, this is the kind of thing that I would be willing to use Federal funds, for, but...I have to admit, the state being a thorn in the side of nearly everything, and forcing their leftist ideology on the rest of us with their 9th circuit court decisions and sanctuary state crap makes me less willing.

It isn’t just that they do those things, it is the overt arrogance and telling the rest of the country to pound sand while they have their hand out with a arrogant smile on their faces.

That does irritate me to no end.


27 posted on 03/18/2019 11:21:34 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: Dave W

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The dam is rock fill. It cannoy “collapse,” but it could be seriously damaged, causing as much as 1/4 of its stored capacity to spill in a short time.


28 posted on 03/18/2019 11:22:45 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Mmm, Billie Joe.


29 posted on 03/18/2019 11:23:02 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom

As a conservative behind enemy lines myself, my heart goes out to those non-leftist citizens in California who see their state being dismantled in front of their eyes.


30 posted on 03/18/2019 11:23:29 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: rktman

Here we all thought LA would be washed away by the ocean in a quake.

No one gave a dam and now it looks like they may be washed into the ocean instead.


31 posted on 03/18/2019 11:24:48 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Steely Tom

They were gonna secede. And put up walls around their borders with the other states.


32 posted on 03/18/2019 11:25:37 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“There’s no water coming out there.”

Yet.

Sounds like this might be an interesting link to keep handy & viewing.


33 posted on 03/18/2019 11:26:05 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: bubbacluck

Nope this is a long, well-known problem that already had a severe failure once before in recent history.


34 posted on 03/18/2019 11:27:26 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Anything good happens - they credit libtards with

Anything bad happens - Trumps fault, guns fault, enemy du jour’s fault


35 posted on 03/18/2019 11:28:43 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

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It’ll never make it to the ocean!

The aluvium will make a new dam between Rio Vista and Antioch, and fill the delta with silt.


36 posted on 03/18/2019 11:28:44 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: rktman
According to national dam expert Scott Cahill of Watershed Services of Ohio, Oroville Dam is on the same failure track as in 2017, with visible water seepage trickling from the foot of the dam and dozens of points along the dam's principal spillway. Cahill warns that warming temperatures magnified by precipitation is a growing threat to the dam.

SMH

1. Observations of "seepage" at the dam toe not necessarily represents seepage under the dam. Mostly likely without examining piezometer data, is that this is colluvial seepage from downstream materials.

2. The article shows weepage in the chute. You cannot make conclusive determinations from a photo taken across the river. That is the same mistake DWR made.

All in all, this 'expert' makes claims absent physical examination of the site. Dangerous to do - especially when the title threatens new "evacuations" and infers such evacuations are pending. Sad reporting and analysis

37 posted on 03/18/2019 11:29:29 AM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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To: rktman

R3member when America could build a dam that didn’t fail?


38 posted on 03/18/2019 11:29:29 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: editor-surveyor

Well lets just see how it plays out.


39 posted on 03/18/2019 11:29:51 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rktman
If there is any kind of a problem at Oroville then Juan Brown will have the best most comprehensive info anywhere in the interwebs on his(wife's) blancolirio channel.

Check out his series of Dam videos here in this playlist.

Anything else is probably just political rhetoric and fear mongering.

Pay it no mind.

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40 posted on 03/18/2019 11:34:03 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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