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.
Balls of steel .. have watched those HV guys, too.
Perhaps no good choices then. Still, it would have seemed a little bit more earlier might have helped put less people at risk. We have not lived in California for 8 years now, but I am hard pressed to think of a similar evacuation order of that magnitude in the last 50 years. Evacuations are confusing and messy, especially when no-one practices them.
why is there a no fly zone?
The water flowing through “The big hole part way down the main spillway “ undercuts the spillway’s foundation above it.
The hole will thereby work it’s way closer to the dam.
That’s why they reduced flow through it- which caused the water level to rise to the emergency spillway.
Wow!
Read a blurb about how they were going to half to backwash power plant to get it started again. It didn’t make sense when I read it but does now.
There has been nothing on news here.
Over by the Hoover Dam they frequently have guys hanging from helicopters fixing those power lines. I hope those guys make a lot of money and have a lot of insurance. They certainly have courage.
Exactly right. The parts of the state that depend on these dams for flood control are heavily Republican. With all state executive branch elected positions in Democrat hands, and with Democrat supermajorities in both chambers in the legislature, the Republican parts of the state have zero influence on budget priorities and funding levels. They also have zero clout in getting the democrat-dominated bureaucracy to move on flood control projects that the voters have already authorized bond funding for.
Independent studies show that California should allocate about $1B per year for flood control safety programs. Instead, we're blowing much more than that on the insane "high-speed" train to nowhere thanks to our idiot governor. Democrats cynically focus state money on programs that buy them votes and the larger, long-term interests of the state be damned, including of course those of the Republican counties. Unfortunately, dams and reservoirs don't vote. Unfortunately, the coastal elite that use the water from the reservoirs, the environmentalist nutjobs that do not understand real life, other leeches who don't want to work, the hordes of unnecessary state employees, and many illegals, do vote.
Check out this “old school” DWR engineer...he had it right back on the 8th of Feb...keep using the regular spillway at a higher rate, water will scour down to bedrock, and fix it over the Summer:
https://youtu.be/hCh6dEMEr84?t=42s
(Comment at at the 42 second mark).
Bags of stones now being fork-lifted in. :o/
Gov. Moonbeam’s PR bandaide?
News feed: Jail being evacuated.
We're limestone, too, much like Oroville. Note distribution pad directly below, but we have no emergency or auxillary spillways, just 8 gates that can be opened during flooding. The city of Austin's being washed away twice is why this dam was built in 1940. It generates hydroelectricity.
There being footage of lineman cutting cable is odd and disconcerting. Something about this whole situation is really not adding up.
They didn’t want to repair it because ‘we’re in a drought.’
They don’t want to build desalination plants because ‘we’re flooded with water.’
I feel for the area residents, and hope they stay dry.
No MSM was on the scene.
Happenstance?
Meanwhile, Moonbeam requested federal funds.
Jail being evacuated? The jokes write themselves...
Thanks for the info.. I had heard that the emergency spillway was 22 feet lower than the dam itself, but I didn’t have the elevation number.
Only the Lame Streams can fly?
Why cant people go look?
Once most of us get old enough to realize we're not indestructible after all, it's time hang it up .. lol
I was there when they had the breach that flooded Linda...those of us who have lived there know that many areas because of hydrolic mining over 150 years ago ...people live below the river level which is why any levee breach can be devastating...
Blessings to you...I still know some people in Butte and Sutter county
Freegards
LEX
To me it looks like the key is the ridge that separates the spillway from the dam. If the spillways fail seriously enough, it could affect that ridge. If that ridge fails, it looks like the dam could fail.
Yeah...
Expert: If emergency spillway collapses, Highway 70 corridor ‘is gone’
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article132356269.html
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