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.
130K residents getting 3hrs evac notice? That is ... crazy. I’m starting to suspect that there’s back-tunneling of water flow back towards the dam from the ‘hole’, threatening to wash out the dirt under the dam itself. An unknown unknown they only discovered today. Somehow. This ain’t right.
Even more than the loss of the indestructibility comes the realization that things just don’t heal as fast or as “right” as they used to. At 51 I had to get surgery to remove the bone spurs, calcium build up and scar tissue from my miss spent youth (Infantryman). Took the better part of 8 months to stop hurting from the surgery. Now I can look forward to three months of trying to regain the muscle tissue that I lost.
sigh, sux to get old
Amen, FRiend, amen !
News feed ...
LIGHTS on dam have gone dark.
They’re gonna need more rocks.
Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris 2h2 hours ago
Kamala Harris Retweeted The Associated Press
If you live near the #Oroville dam, please heed law enforcement official announcements.
Kamala Harris added,
The Associated Press @AP Officials order residents near Oroville Dam in Northern California to evacuate. http://apne.ws/2kAvzjb
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Alternative not so hot!
;-)
What’s your assessment? Id be interested in your take on failure possibilities and probabilities- back of the envelope?
Well it’s sure hard to make sense of this.
The sheriff said he made the call because of the “unknown”...this scenario with spillway hadn’t been forseen and just in case...
Sen Feinstein cant be bothered to Tweet on the dam issue.
Why did the lights on the dam go out?
Well, I see the drones hovering providing candlepower isn’t happening.....
LIVE -— State Emergency Ops Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJVG0z1g6Eo
I don’t doubt there was some shoring up at that time but I saw them after that in 2008. During the time I was there I drove along the levee areas and ate a restaurants along the river. While they may be better than they were they aren’t built to withstand much river abuse in my opinion as someone who spent a lifetime in construction. They remind me of what we called agricultural levees outside of urban areas in Missouri but in this case they were five miles above suburban areas in Sacramento.
Not wishing anyone any disasters, that’s for sure but I think I want people to have possibilities in their thinking. Plan ahead.
We are not talking about a river rising, where people have time to evacuate. We are talking about a wall of debris, mud, and water taking out a city, buildings, roads, bridges, life, in a horrible instant.
When will we, at last mandate proper maintenance and inspection of these high hazard and medium hazard dams? Why are we willing to suffer a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to save a couple of dollars on proper and responsible dam safety and repairs?
Whatever you may hear, this is a significant event which could be horrible in its scope and its magnitude. Let us pray that it does not breach, and let us hope that, at last people are sufficiently concerned to act.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oroville-dam-failure-scott-cahill
Farcical.
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