The spillways on our Fort Patrick Henry Dam (TVA) were opened to handle all the recent extraordinary runoff.
If All 4 are opened, Eastman Chemical Co downstream might have some flooded roadways
With all the snow I heard that when it gets warm again there could be a repeat of what happened 2 years ago.
There was an article on townhall saying that while the emergency was averted, very little about the dam has in fact changed.
I am hoping for a whole lot of reform in Sacramento.
They’re already talking about opening the new auxiliary spillway at Folsom Dam—but that one has been completed since 2017 (and just tested back in February 2019).
the uncompleted Oroville Dam main spillway next week.
Engineers, that work they did a couple of years ago, how long does it take that much cement to set up / harden?
The spillways on our Fort Patrick Henry Dam (TVA) were opened to handle all the recent extraordinary runoff.
If All 4 are opened, Eastman Chemical Co downstream might have some flooded roadways
It’ll be interesting to see if the work they did holds water.
Climate change during the winter caused a huge snowpack. Global warming during the spring now causing it to melt. Obviously the climate change deniers are at fault. Money wasted by the controlling democrats on protecting/supporting illegal aliens, socialist programs and high speed trains to nowhere instead of fixing crumbling infrastructure should be ignored.
“Opportunity Costs”
The Democrats in California have spent a tremendous amount of time, energy, money and newsprint on issues other than this.
If this thing blows and causes a lot of destruction, then the Democrats should be tried.
They haven’t been taking care of their business.
the uncompleted Oroville Dam main spillway next week.
Hair on fire B.S. in the first paragraph. The spillway is complete. The release was anticipated. operations are normal. Some earthwork remains, as does some tie-in work to the emergency spill way called the “buttress wall”.
fyi
This can’t be real, Jerry Brown told us there would NEVER be any rain in California again from Global Warming. Has anyone checked to see if this wasn’t just fallout from man made global warming and not really rain or water??
This could be good....
or bad....
Oroville is less than 80% full right now. We do have a huge snowpack, almost 160% of normal, and an El Nino could mean a wetter and warmer than usual spring. Or it might not. El Nino years are unpredictable. Sometimes El Nino’s are dry and La Nina are wet. Climate Guessers still don’t fully understand these cycles and suck at predicting their impact. A few years back, we had El Nino conditions, so they dumped reservoirs to make room, only to have a very dry year, leaving us in the middle of a drought, with almost empty reservoirs.
Looking at recent pictures of the spillway, the concrete work is complete and they are back-filling around the spillway. There was a live-cam, but it’s been down for a few days. Considering the water level, and no major storms forecast, it is unlikely the spillway will be needed over the next few weeks, but they have to be prepared.
Good thing it doesn't rain in the summer in California.
Meanwhile, where are the money allocated for water storage projects going?
Yes, because Trump caused (er, did not stop) global from happening last year (and the ten years before that!), therefore, the previous years’ drought was obviously his fault.
And because Trump caused (er, did not stop) global warming this year, therefore, this year’s extra snow and extra rain (which DID end the previous eight years of drought in California!) are ALSO his fault!
El Nino?
Bullsh*t!
The relevant areas of latitude and longitude in the Pacific, typically measured for El Nino, are barely at their threshold temperatures for this atmospheric phenomenon to be present.
The pacific Northwest is getting regular storms for several reasons:
1.) Fluctuations in the jet stream
2.) A less energetic Sun (We are entering the first stages of a Grand Solar Minimum cycle, expected to begin in earnest by 2030). This leads to a diminishing output of the solar wind, which thus allows greater amounts of cosmic radiation into the earths atmosphere, which in turn creates increased nucleation of aerosols and dust particles, which then generates increased cloud formation.
3.) Magnetic Field Reversal - The earth’s magnetic field protects us from much of the galactic high-energy particles that bombard our solar system, and also shields us from the high-energy particles of “solar wind emanating from our Sun. However, the earth’s magnetic field is weakening at an increased rate, while the Earth’s north magnetic pole has, over the past two decades, accelerated in its shift away from the Earth’s geographic pole. With the onset of this cyclic pole reversal (of which we are greatly overdue) and as the field weakens and begins to collapse, the magnetic “barrier” against those high-energy particles becomes less effective, and thus more nucleation of aerosols and dust particles occurs, further increasing cloud formation - and the Earth’s albedo (atmospheric reflectivity). The end result is increased rainfall and global cooling.
The stored heat within our oceans can offset this cooling for a time, but not indefinitely. Eventually we will experience very short growing seasons, global crop failures, and something akin to the Little Ice Age or the Maunder Minimum.
This of course is in stark contrast to the “global warming” nonsense, which for obvious reasons has been rebranded as “climate change.” Well, no sh*t! The Earth’s climate has always experienced these changes, and man has not a thing to do with the phenomena. Nor could man effect the Earth’s climate even if he were to put all his resources to the task. It is the pinnacle of hubris to believe otherwise.
They should have left it as it was after the last releases...was scoured down to bedrock and doing just fine with major water flow. Could have saved millions!!