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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: tomkat

Balls of steel .. have watched those HV guys, too.


381 posted on 02/12/2017 8:17:20 PM PST by maggief
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To: ArmstedFragg

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.


382 posted on 02/12/2017 8:17:48 PM PST by Toirdhealbheach Beucail (Am fear nach gheibh na h-airm 'n am na sith, cha bith iad aige 'nam a chogaidh)
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To: maggief

why is there a no fly zone?


383 posted on 02/12/2017 8:17:53 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: steve86

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.


384 posted on 02/12/2017 8:18:44 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: maggief

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.


385 posted on 02/12/2017 8:18:56 PM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: tomkat

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.


386 posted on 02/12/2017 8:19:20 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: The Westerner
This event is not a natural disaster. It is the result of ignorant holier-than-thou overlords who’ve been working the system without opposition

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.

387 posted on 02/12/2017 8:19:23 PM PST by SFConservative
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To: txhurl

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).


388 posted on 02/12/2017 8:19:47 PM PST by Drago
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To: maggief

Bags of stones now being fork-lifted in. :o/

Gov. Moonbeam’s PR bandaide?

News feed: Jail being evacuated.


389 posted on 02/12/2017 8:20:51 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief
Here's my dam, Mansfield at Lake Travis

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.

390 posted on 02/12/2017 8:22:00 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: steve86

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.


391 posted on 02/12/2017 8:23:01 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
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To: Chickensoup

No MSM was on the scene.

Happenstance?

Meanwhile, Moonbeam requested federal funds.


392 posted on 02/12/2017 8:24:28 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Jail being evacuated? The jokes write themselves...


393 posted on 02/12/2017 8:25:34 PM PST by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: snarkpup

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.


394 posted on 02/12/2017 8:27:24 PM PST by Drago
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To: maggief

Only the Lame Streams can fly?

Why cant people go look?


395 posted on 02/12/2017 8:28:29 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: ladyjane
As an old rock climber I can understand the attraction it likely holds for many of 'em, but it's a young man's game for sure.

Once most of us get old enough to realize we're not indestructible after all, it's time hang it up .. lol

396 posted on 02/12/2017 8:28:36 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Sammie42

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


397 posted on 02/12/2017 8:28:59 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: exit82

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.


398 posted on 02/12/2017 8:29:06 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: txhurl

Yeah...


399 posted on 02/12/2017 8:29:25 PM PST by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: Drago

Expert: If emergency spillway collapses, Highway 70 corridor ‘is gone’

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article132356269.html


400 posted on 02/12/2017 8:31:43 PM PST by rdl6989
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