http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/oroville-residents-told-to-evacuate-spillway-failure-imminent/
“At 770 feet tall, the structure that holds back the Feather River is taller than the Washington Monument and as thick as 10 football fields at its base. Lake Oroville, at 10 miles long, is the second largest reservoir in California behind Shasta Lake.”
POSTER on another thread reported the following...
“News feed ...
LIGHTS on dam have gone dark.”
Is this something to be concerned about?
Speaking of Shasta, at 4.5 million acre feet.
It’s at 96% of capacity and they have slowed down releases to 49,000cfs to take some pressure off the Sacramento River...just in case.
But with big storms starting Wednesday night, that can’t persist. They will have to open it up.
This could cause a bit of a traffic jam where the American River meets the Sacramento river...and send it all south to Sacramento.
Sacramento metropolitan area is 2.5 million.
Oh, it’s the tallest dam in America.