Emergency: California’s Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure, Evacuations Ordered

Breitbart ^ | Feb 12, 2017 | Joel B. Pollak1

[janetjanet998]

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.

[tomkat]

thanks  :-)

[maggief]

Flooding in Maxwell California:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yssSL8iVWhk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukBppDPtcnU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6TNPRI5xuI

[Grampa Dave]

Where is Maxwell, Ca

[Grampa Dave]

Are these guys graduates of new math and Core Math?

[sit-rep]

im just sayin... did that really have to be explained??

[uncitizen]

But stupid California liberals are told, and they believe, that there is still a drought in California....

[Grampa Dave]

These pictures show what damage an over flowing creek can do let alone a river below a major dam.

[Grampa Dave]

I believe that this picture was taken on I 5 northbound at the Maxwell exit.

If so, based on my personal experience and family's experiences of driving on that part of I5 and never seeing flooding like this since I arrived in Cali land in 1970. Lots of trips during the winters and springs and never saw flooding like this.

[Jim W N]

maximum probable flood has a probability recurrence in EXCESS of ten thousand years

Hmmm...

Maybe it's later than we think...

[janetjanet998]

ULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CA
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CA
1112 AM PST SAT FEB 18 2017

CAC007-011-021-101-103-191900-
/O.NEW.KSTO.FA.W.0010.170218T1912Z-170219T1900Z/
/00000.0.MC.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
COLUSA CA-SUTTER CA-TEHAMA CA-BUTTE CA-GLENN CA-
1112 AM PST SAT FEB 18 2017

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD CA HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR...
COLUSA COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA...
NORTHWESTERN SUTTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA...
SOUTHWESTERN TEHAMA COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...
SOUTHWESTERN BUTTE COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...
GLENN COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA...

* UNTIL 1100 AM PST SUNDAY

* AT 1104 AM PST, REPORTS FROM EMERGENCY MANAGERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND PUBLIC INDICATE WIDESPREAD FLOODING IMPACTS EVEN AS RAIN HAS
SUBSIDED. VALLEY STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE AS IT TAKES TIME
FOR THE MOUNTAIN RUNOFF TO REACH THE VALLEY FLOOR. MANY
EVACUATIONS HAVE BEEN ISSUED. PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR LOCAL
EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR EVACUATION NOTICES.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CHICO, RED BLUFF, CORNING, ORLAND, WILLOWS, MAXWELL, ELK CREEK,
GLENN, COLUSA, TEHAMA, PENNINGTON, TISDALE, HENLEYVILLE, PASKENTA,
BUTTE CITY, STONEYFORD, COLLEGE CITY, CODORA, AFTON AND DELE

[mewzilla]

Check out @IAmSteph_1’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/IAmSteph_1/status/833003835161391104?s=09

Conga line of traffic driving through surface water near Maxwell.

[Tony in Hawaii]

Yeah I thought it smelt crappie

[onemiddleamerican]

For some reason, for the past few days, the feed goes offline and comes back up with another link that you have to search for on Broadcastify’s website. This one is live right now.

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/1929

[WildHighlander57]

Update here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3526554/posts?page=1#1

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Why is the National Weather Service yelling?

It must be really really serious.

[onemiddleamerican]

They always yell.

(You are yelling your screen name, btw - I whisper)

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I ALWAYS YELL.

[onemiddleamerican]

:-)

[maggief]

Thanks for posting the link here on the mega thread!

Update:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h384gT87WxI

Oroville Dam Spillway 2-18-17 9:10am More Rain

[EarthResearcher333]

>>..did that really have to be explained??<<

Greetings, the context of the post, on that continuing particular browning coloring discussion, was related to a specific technical discussion/questions originating from a sequence of discovered images from a Fox40 video.

See posts 1,308 (OP question on this subject), then posts 1314, 1317, 1318, 1322, 1326, 1327, 1328, 1335, 1337, 1338, 1340, 1341, 1344.

Posts 1358 & 1360 was followup to these posts. There was a good underlying question on the CCD camera as to whether a dynamic exposure change could have created an illusion of a “browning” in the two images in 1314.

That is why the “catch all” starting comment (”>>Brown Water discussion: Fox video images<<”) to the post. These additional shots (1358 & 1360) confirmed the particular coloration changes in revealing a common chroma to “bursts” of erosion (spectral RGB distribution, contrast, exposure, etc).

Sorry if the posting was lacking in all of the above in an explanation (i.e. seemed “pot calling the kettle black”).