“The press conference right now sounds like that spillway failure is not imminent. “
There is a hole under the spillway.
It will fail, if not in the next hour, in the next 12-24 hours.
Hopefully the next 12-24 hours allows everyone in path of the danger to get out.
Whether or not their town is spared is unknown, but at least lives will be spared.
This dam was apparently dedicated when Reagan was Governor. Expect his name to be dragged through the mud.
Where do you see a reference to a “hole under the spillway”?
If you’re referring to the hole in the concrete-lined spillway, that hole does not appear to have expanded upstream since yesterday.
I have a hole in my fiberglass bathtub. That is catastrophic for me. Can’t imagine a spillway.