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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: pax_et_bonum
Cool vid. Thanks for posting. Our insiders were as surprised as we were by the announcement.

The last they heard, it was expected to fail some time before the rain hit. Most likely Wednesday afternoon or evening.

Definitely going to keep a wary eye on the situation.

901 posted on 02/14/2017 4:21:08 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: KC Burke

Yep...what I said in #886. This should have mobilized everyone in the state, in the national guard...everyone.

Makes sense now...if...that rumor is true.


902 posted on 02/14/2017 4:22:08 PM PST by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: tomkat

Can you save this one?

Found “Stay the hell out of Oroville “ again.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CX4r6CCyeJU


903 posted on 02/14/2017 4:23:53 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: Texas Eagle

This situation is horrible.

I hope this engineer isn’t right.


904 posted on 02/14/2017 4:26:50 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: KC Burke
They've brought in at least one Sky Crane

Not too many helos with more capacity than that, methinks.

905 posted on 02/14/2017 4:26:55 PM PST by tomkat
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To: tomkat

Thanks for saving the audio!

Does keepvid work on this ?(video saving program)?

http://keepvid.com/


906 posted on 02/14/2017 4:28:35 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: pax_et_bonum

Yep, gimme a couple minutes . . .


907 posted on 02/14/2017 4:29:07 PM PST by tomkat
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To: SE Mom

Moonbeam is out of money. Cali is in BIG trouble.

The Republican legislature wants to block bullet train funds.

Sanctuary cities are about to be cut them off from federal funds, and the place is over-run with illegals.

calPERS is near collapse.

An aging infrastructure has been underfunded and not maintained.

Perhaps a catastrophic disaster is the only way Moonbeam can tap into Trump’s proposed infrastructure investment, meanwhile Brown maintains his liberal persona.

/justmytake


908 posted on 02/14/2017 4:31:31 PM PST by maggief
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To: pax_et_bonum
I hope so, too, but it comports with what we've been hearing right up until the evacuation was lifted.

I am not in the habit of trusting public officials but I can't imagine they'd make this decision knowing that those-in-the-know continue to expect it to fail.

But then, they limited the outflow of the primary spillway at 55 to 65,000 cfs even though that spillway was capable of handling over 100,000 cfs. I heard as high as 250,000. At one point, the water flowing into Lake Oroville was at about 195,000.

So the capability to release more water than was being taken in was always there.

I think they didn't want to take a chance on washing the rest of the spillway down into the river because that might cause the water to back up to the base of the dam where the powerhouse is.

If the powerhouse flooded, they wouldn't be able to control the gates.

909 posted on 02/14/2017 4:31:41 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SE Mom

My guess is that you are underestimating just how incompetent the Kalifornia .gov is at every level.


910 posted on 02/14/2017 4:32:19 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It's a war against humanity!" Donald J. Trump)
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To: WildHighlander57

That link in #896 is video .. mp4


911 posted on 02/14/2017 4:32:56 PM PST by tomkat
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To: daisy12
What about the refineries and bridges?

I don't think the refineries and bridges will be impacted much at all from a surge. There will be enough advance warning to get traffic off bridges that will see a surge. The bridges are strong enough to take a small surge. There is a lot of debris on the Oroville Lake, logs and branches etc., and it is kept away from the dam rim by rope barriers and such. Only if the barriers holding back the debris were to fail and the debris escaped the lake, would there be concern downstream. Not likely to happen. By the time a surge reached the Bay, it will have reduced in size from the initial 30 feet to only a few feet, if at all. Remember, much of the water would end up breaking levees and flood low-lying neighborhoods around Sacramento, well away from the Bay.

912 posted on 02/14/2017 4:33:18 PM PST by roadcat
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To: KC Burke

Someone on another forum regarding Oroville dam:

“What concerns me is the possible backlash against innocent Muslims this could create.”


913 posted on 02/14/2017 4:33:59 PM PST by Chaguito
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To: pax_et_bonum
Stay Outta Oroville  (12MB mp4)
914 posted on 02/14/2017 4:34:12 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Texas Eagle

I very much hope there’s nothing to worry about.

I’d love to find out that the latest videos are a hoax, but the discussion on YouTube looks very serious and the information in the videos is not in disagreement with our previous information.


915 posted on 02/14/2017 4:36:12 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: maggief
calPERS is near collapse.

Over the last few months, CalPers divested funds away from companies that weren't politically correct. As a result, they lost over $900 million in the last few months during the market boom. State of California will have to make up the difference to pensioners because CalPers doesn't have the funds to pay pensioners. Real smart oversight, not!

916 posted on 02/14/2017 4:37:13 PM PST by roadcat
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To: mad_as_he$$; SE Mom

Pre-Oroville ...

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/jerry_browns_bullet_train_fiasco_and_trump.html

California governor Jerry Brown has staked out the turf as President-Elect Trump’s opponent, hiring Eric Holder to gin up a legal strategy and appointing Congressman Xavier Bacera as his A.G. to oppose anticipated Trump policies in sanctuary cities, the environment, and what some call California’s “values.”

But I have to wonder if Brown doesn’t have a vulnerable flank in this battle: the looming financial collapse of his most cherished project, the so-called “bullet train” between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times published information from a “confidential” Federal Railroad Administration report that was leaked to it revealing absolute incompetence and out-of-control overspending on the first segment under construction. The report by Ralph Vartabedian should be read in its entirety to grasp the level of chaos in the project:

California’s bullet train could cost taxpayers 50% more than estimated ...


917 posted on 02/14/2017 4:37:26 PM PST by maggief
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To: tomkat

Thank you!


918 posted on 02/14/2017 4:37:57 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: mewzilla

Yep. Remember when the Dems/Media were calling for the head of the Michigan Gov - R, for the Detroit water crisis???

They’re suspiciously silent over Moonbeam’s Mishap.


919 posted on 02/14/2017 4:38:28 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: roadcat

Insanity!


920 posted on 02/14/2017 4:39:03 PM PST by maggief
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