New SacBee article "Angry public, insistent media uncloaking Oroville Dam repair secrecy"
DWR wants a "do-over" on how they communicate with the public about Oroville Dam…..Ok. Let's see what this "do-over" looks like.
SacBee reporter: "It would be refreshing to see this state agency figure out how to be more open with the public even as it works to ensure security of the dam. For the past couple of months, officials have regularly refused to release information, citing federal security regulations designed to protect us from terrorism.
Well, here's the new "transparency" => DWR just filed a FERC document May 11, 2017 under CEII secrecy for…wait….for….it…….water. Yes, water.
DWR's secrecy filing infers they believe that terrorists may gain access to unauthorized sources of rainfall (big clouds), make these big clouds rain & snow, then make the snow melt quickly, and then cause a Probable Maximum Flood.
Oh the Hugh Manatee!!!
Intelligence reports must have identified a threateningly effective new "rain dance" that may be perpetrated. Certainly this high risk threat justifiably establishes a CEII secrecy on the new "rain" calculations.
…Tongue => Cheek… Roll eyes… Roll eyes again…
(note: this post is intended to be light hearted, yet it is baffling how rainwater is considered a terrorist threat. No offense intended to "rain dance" or any heritage related to such).
==SacBee article: http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/joyce-terhaar/article151397137.html
=Quote: Officials say they are trying to balance security concerns with transparency. “We’re still trying to hide our vulnerabilities, we don’t want to make our vulnerabilities obvious to everybody, but we also realize you gotta share some information, otherwise folks start thinking you’re keeping secrets,” said David Gutierrez, the retired head of DWR’s Division of Safety of Dams, whom the agency recently hired as a consultant." = end quote
DWR is afraid of "rain dancing" terrorists. Must keep PMF information & discussion CEII secret.
