Remain calm. All is well!
Posted on 02/12/2017 5:55:03 PM PST by Mariner
"Officials are anticipating a failure of the Auxiliary Spillway at Oroville Dam within the next 60 minutes (5:45 p.m.)," the California Department of Water Resources said on Facebook.
The Yuba County Office of Emergency Services said on Facebook an evacuation has been for "all Yuba County on the valley floor."
The city of Marysville and Yuba County have been ordered to evacuate, the Marysville Police Department tweeted.
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All those state officials will live out their lives with gold-plated pensions and health insurance benefits.
Could be very short lives, depending on the severity of this disaster. If lives are lost due to these officials' incompetence, there may be a price exacted that no one can stop.
You might want to double check in that
We have beenb given the evac order. Staying put even though we are technically in the flood zone. We are literally down the street from the dam but opposite of the river. We are safe. Roads are gridlocked. There is no where for us to go anyway. Downtown is in danger as well as other areas.
It is ready to go in minutes
Thank you. This looks dreadful...
Good link!
Oakland (CA, SF East Bay) has a number of people who live below dams (Lake Temescal and Lake Chabot, on or near the Hayward Fault, respectively), but some say the damage (e.g. in the event of a major earthquake) would be limited. Both are earthen dams.
This is a criminal lapse of judgment. You cannot evacuate that many people in that short a time. It’s going to be like the freeways of LA, a parking lot. Most people who aren’t paying attention to the news won’t even know unless they are blaring sirens.
Gross incompetence. This is very bad.
I am much further south but I would have had my bug out essentials packed yesterday. I keep thinking of the World Trade Center instructions to stay in the building, everything is fine. You can’t trust them.
From what I understand , it isn’t the Dam they expect to fail but the Spillway...or roadway actually...
“Here comes an opportunity for negotiation.”
The Stafford Act dictates the processes by which a state asks for and gets disaster relief. I don’t think it allows negotiations.
There is usually a delay on these sorts of things, then all of a sudden its the lead story. Give them an hour or two.
George Bush’s fault! Couldn’t be gov moonbeam’s. when was this built and who was gov?
As soon as they figure out how to blame Trump.
Is this the same dam that began to overflow into the spillway last week and the “officials” said everything was ok? Hope everyone gets out in time and stays safe.
Take care brother....remember NOLA
If they are really ordering an evacuation, then why are they not using ALL lanes.
This happened during a hurricane in the Charleston, SC area and the government did not plan an all lane evacuation. This resulted in people spending 8-10 hours in the car stalled in traffic, and could have been a disaster had the hurricane hit and not veered off to sea. It takes a lot of planning by emergency planners to do an all lane evacuation, and in South Carolina after the near disaster, the governor ordered an all lane evacuation planning for the next time.
I hope no one is endangered by lack of all lane evacuation planning.
humor
Pelosi sued Wellington Hospital
A recent article in “The Dominion Post” reported that Nancy
Pelosi has sued Wellington Hospital saying that after her
husband had surgery there he lost all interest in sex.
A hospital spokesman replied, “Your husband was admitted
for cataract surgery. All we did was correct his vision!
We always assumed it would be an earthquake that would push California into the Pacific...
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