[lexington minuteman 1775]

I lived in Live Oak from 1984-1995...Downstream of Oroville Dam...I went up there a couple of times when they were releasing over 65k of water over the original spillway that now has a hole in it...When I read yesterday about that I thot dang if that Dam Fails its got 3 and half million acre feet of water it will flood thru oroville...Live oak and all th eway into downtown Sacratomato...Pray for those people below the dam!
Freegards
LEX

[digger48]

The Left will use this dam failure to push for NO NEW DAMS

I’ve worked controlling water for 40 years and there are 2 places to never build or buy a home.

In a floodplain...whether designated or not

And below a dam.

That being said, I hope every is safe they and get out while the gettin’s good. This is far from over, since the ground below the damaged spillway and below the emergency spillway is now saturated an likely unstable

[4Liberty]

http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/butte/evacuation-orders-for-low-levels-of-oroville/330519833

[maggief]

PING!

[grey_whiskers]

Which will they blame first?

Trump's budget cuts, the forced expulsion of the gay Muslim Mexicans who maintained the dam, or global warming?

Or is this still due to Bush, since Nancy Pelosi just said there wasn't a single thing the Congressional Democrats could work with Bush on?

[snarkpup]

Oroville Dam water levels and flows

[WMarshal]

BREAKING: Officials warn of collapse of emergency spillway at Oroville
FEBRUARY 12, 2017 4:44 PM PST

“They have what they expect to be an imminent failure of the axillary spillway,” said Mike Smith, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “What they’re expecting is as much as 30 vertical feet of the top of the spillway could fail and could fail within one to two hours. We don’t know how much water that means, but we do know is that’s potentially 30 feet of depth of Lake Oroville.”

[editor-surveyor]

.
Gov Moonbeam is such a godsend!

Democrat rule is about to drown thousands in the Sacramento valley.

The nation’s most powerful state is powerless to follow common sense.

President Trump: please take over the state of California immediately!

You can rename it Katrina II.
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[GreenLanternCorps]

Found news articles on the evacuation...

http://fox40.com/2017/02/12/evacuations-ordered-for-parts-of-oroville-due-to-hazardous-situation-developing-at-emergency-spillway/

http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/butte/evacuation-orders-for-low-levels-of-oroville/330519833

http://www.kcra.com/article/evacuation-orders-issued-for-low-levels-of-oroville/8735215

I tend to be skeptical about items posted without a linked source.

[ForYourChildren]

https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=29411

Emergency spillway webcam

[ronnie raygun]

Get those illegals you spent the money on to plug the dike

[greeneyes]

It’s about time. Been reading about this.

[LucyT]

*

PING

Problem with Oroville Dams emergency spillway..lower sections of the city just ordered to evacuate

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Didn’t Governor Moonbeam just IMPLORE President Trump to pony up some cash for some flooding in his state?

Whose to say that this additional ‘disaster’ isn’t man-made? I mean, he’s a YUGE proponent of the Global Warming SCAM. If man causes it, then all bets are OFF!

FUJB! (FU Jerry Brown!)

[Drago]

Live news/helicopter video: http://www.kcra.com/nowcast

[simon says what]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkz-F4PcaA

[Dennis M.]

Just saw a video on the weather channel. It looks like water is getting under parts of the emergency spillway on the left side. Not good.

[Vision Thing]

Where’s Jesse? There’s a whole lot of water there, but it’s his world! :)

All joking aside, prayers up for NoCal, especially for our FReeper friends who are affected by this calamity there.

[Tymesup]

175 posts and no one blames climate change?

[CIB-173RDABN]

Watching live.

Massive traffic jam leaving Oroville. Hope they have more than an hour because it is going to take longer than that to get everyone out. The evacuation route is taking them over the river!!!

The danger appears to be where the emergency overflow barrier ends. Water is flowing over nothing but dirt.