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Emergency: California’s Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure, Evacuations Ordered
Breitbart ^ | Feb 12, 2017 | Joel B. Pollak1

Posted on 02/12/2017 4:26:47 PM PST by janetjanet998

Edited on 02/12/2017 9:33:58 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The California Department of Water Resources issued a sudden evacuation order shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday for residents near the Oroville Dam in northern California, warning that the dam’s emergency spillway would fail in the next 60 minutes.

The Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: butte; california; dam; dwr; evacuation; lakeoroville; liveoroville; moonbeamcanyon; moonbeammadness; oroville; orovilledam; orovillelive; runaway; spillway; sutter; water; yuba
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To: Drago

Is it live or taped? There’s a no-fly zone.


141 posted on 02/12/2017 5:26:28 PM PST by maggief
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To: janetjanet998

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkz-F4PcaA


142 posted on 02/12/2017 5:27:16 PM PST by simon says what
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To: 21twelve

If that one is the same as this one,

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1mrGmeVBkqdGy

you can see a chunk of the hill to the right eroded away... A swath 3x the width of the original concrete spillway.


143 posted on 02/12/2017 5:29:37 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57

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144 posted on 02/12/2017 5:29:46 PM PST by maggief
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To: grey_whiskers

H/t janetjanet998 for the Twitter link

Confirmed:

https://mobile.twitter.com/corinhoggard/status/830944293485371392/photo/1

I checked thw NWS site; flash flood warning :

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?map.x=214&map.y=28&minlon=-124.5&maxlon=-119.3&minlat=35.65&maxlat=39.65&mapwidth=354&site=mtr&zmx=1&zmy=1#.WKEJpDBME0M


145 posted on 02/12/2017 5:31:47 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: steve86

When the lake water level gets this high, the emergency spillway structure has, in effect, become a dam holding part of the lake back. I think I read that it is holding back about 30 feet of water — NOT GOOD if it collapses.


146 posted on 02/12/2017 5:32:32 PM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: WildHighlander57

147 posted on 02/12/2017 5:33:35 PM PST by maggief
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To: kara37; GreenLanternCorps
The emergency spillway for that dam is a few hundred yards to the northwest of the dam, over solid earth. Water over the spillway cannot cause the dam to fail. *************************************** The dam is not failing. The emergency spillway is failing. It says that pretty clear in the title.

Look at it with Google Earth...shows the problem. IF the spillway gets breeched the dam is useless. ALL the water will go around the dam through the failed spillway. The dam will be there holding back nothing but air.

148 posted on 02/12/2017 5:33:37 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: janetjanet998

Yup, just saw a report and the water is running AROUND the outside of the dam.


149 posted on 02/12/2017 5:34:14 PM PST by crz
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To: maggief

150 posted on 02/12/2017 5:34:28 PM PST by jennychase
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To: maggief

Been out few hours...catching up, yikes.


151 posted on 02/12/2017 5:34:56 PM PST by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: orionrising

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The native geology there is mostly soft limestone.

It is garbage.


152 posted on 02/12/2017 5:35:20 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: rdl6989

This is a 100% Democrat-owned disaster - CNN is forbidden to mention it.


153 posted on 02/12/2017 5:36:18 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: WildHighlander57

Similar - but I think I was on the thread yesterday and it just had the spillway hole and through the hole it was on rock. And then these newest videos with the water gushing around that rock through the soil.

This video gives a better reference to the distance to the toe of the dam. I don’t think there is any risk of the toe washing out - that’s a pretty long ways. On other videos where it shows the broad spillway to the left of this one that is washed out - that sure is gushing. I hope that one doesn’t get undermined and fail.

What a mess. Hopefully they can keep the mess up at the dam and prevent major flooding downstream.


154 posted on 02/12/2017 5:36:29 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: maggief

I guess there’s a no-fly zone because the drones taping are too easy to run over by GA.

FReepers are saying the CA MenSeekingMen, along with national, aren’t talking about this. No mention of it on the grammies, either. I’m just watching for the political antics, pop music has been unlistenable to me for ten years.


155 posted on 02/12/2017 5:36:38 PM PST by txhurl (The LEFT are screaming at the Tsunami, and the Sky, trying to set fire to the Ocean- S.Tom)
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To: janetjanet998

Just saw a video on the weather channel. It looks like water is getting under parts of the emergency spillway on the left side. Not good.


156 posted on 02/12/2017 5:37:51 PM PST by Dennis M.
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To: maggief

Happy to hear they came to their senses.


157 posted on 02/12/2017 5:38:52 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: 21twelve; spokeshave; maggief

This view shows more... H/t maggief

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1mrGmeVBkqdGy

A swath 3x the width of the spillway (the one that had the sinkhole in it) has been cut by the water overflow.
It’s to the right, toward the dam.

You can see big @$$ chunks of concrete tumbling down the original spillway..


158 posted on 02/12/2017 5:39:05 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: janetjanet998

Where’s Jesse? There’s a whole lot of water there, but it’s his world! :)

All joking aside, prayers up for NoCal, especially for our FReeper friends who are affected by this calamity there.


159 posted on 02/12/2017 5:39:08 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: crz

that would be the emergency spillway working


160 posted on 02/12/2017 5:39:14 PM PST by Thibodeaux (the long night is over)
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