On site!!
I need to get a beer in before i go live
Posted on 02/11/2017 8:22:22 AM PST by Kevin in California
State water officials said water has begun flowing over the emergency spillway at Oroville Dam. Doug Carlson, a spokesman for the state Department of Water Resources, said water started topping over the auxiliary spillway shortly before 8 a.m. at a rate of between 5,000 and 10,000 cubic feet per second.
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I just talked my way past the roadblock and will be starting the hike in about five minutes.
https://www.periscope.tv/pseudojd/1OyKAomOpZDJb
On site!!
I need to get a beer in before i go live
Wow...thanks for links and updates.
Amazing to see this happening.
Need the link for this!
You’ve got the best sound of any video out there on the periscope vid. Amazing!
Interesting expiration date on that NOTAM.
Seriously? I would think local news stations would be fighting that...what isgoing on?
Ditto on the altitude. 3000’ MSL. That’s good for what, small private prop jobs and drones?
And news helicopters...?
The government is jamming your signal!
No news choppers ... or media on site.
The live feed is the best source for info at this point.
OP had to talk his way past a roadblock today.
???
Feed cuts in and out from time to time.
I’ve had to refresh a few times.
Cutting in and out a lot for me too...seems like same for everyone.
He thinks the dam will hold barring something extraordinary.
If that large chuck of topsoil between the spillway and emergency spillway gives way that will be a big problem.
Yeah...lot of pressure on it. There’s more erosion to the right.
Agreed. If the saturated ground slides into the riverbed it will cause the water to back up and saturate the ground in the dam area.
Just wait until they get another 3-4 inches of warm rain on top of the snow and saturated soils of the Sierras...later this week.
The inflow and outflow will match at over 200,000 cfs. That’s nearly 3 times the volume that flows over Niagra and Bridal Veil falls, combined.
That emergency spillway will cut the mountain in half all the way down to the river bed. And it’s not even spring yet.
The main spillway won’t be repaired until August at the earliest.
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