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 Oroville Dam is the highest in the nation.
Remember that huge boulder we worried over? You can’t even see it now...it’s a lot worse than this afternoon...
They’re wasting highway capacity by not setting up one way traffic out of the evac area.
Yeah, the emergency spillway is to the left of the main spillway. The main spillway is heavily damaged partway down, and as a result, there is a lot of soil erosion heading down.
Water is pouring over the emergency spillway also, because the lake level is above the top of that structure.
This looked bad and covered up from the onset.
Look for DWR and Moonbeam on full CYA.
And prison guard pensions
Just save one lane for emergency vehicles.
Also that sinkhole is prolly waaaaay larger than before; water came over top of the spillway at the long horizontal part that goes to the left, that is at the very top.
At the narrow top of the long vertical spillway, go down to where the sink hole is; you can see big @$$ pieces of concrete (grey spots in the water) coming down. At about 19 minutes in, you see the erosion to the right... :
https://www.periscope.tv/w/1mrGmeVBkqdGy
H/t maggief
That left side sure looks like it can’t take much more . . .
Somehow, Trump will be blamed. Just watch. They’ll claim they were distracted by all the illegal alien roundups going on.
California is stupid.
Regardless of this issue, which the state probably doesn’t care about since it doesn’t affect the mexican population of LA (who went 80% to Hitlery).
Thousands are clogging the roadways. Pray they can get to safety before it blows.
Rt 99 now ordered ALL northbound
More rain is scheduled to start Wednesday night for the area and continue until Saturday.
Hope Trump gets ahead of Moonbeam.
RT 99 ALL northbound per KCRC live feed one minute ago.
Look at post number 86? It is a photo of the dam as it looks at normal. The em spillway is the blue. The regular spillway...or primary if I could call it so, is just to the right-that is the one with the chut that failed.
If you look to the left of the EM spillway, you can see the parking lot, and the water is now over that and running out AROUND the dam proper. That is the area that will fail since I doubt that area was ever set up for this-I.E. compacted ground, reinfoced etc.
I was involved in the Dead River Basin disaster in Marquette Michigan years ago and that dam was built the same way. Keyed with a cement spillway with a earth levy system on the south side. It started over topping because of a dam failure above. The local mining contractors got to it and brought mine rock onto the earth levy to stop the water from breaching that earthen part of the dam. We stopped it..
That was a close one.
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