Posted on 02/12/2017 9:36:04 PM PST by Kartographer
An immediate evacuation for Oroville and areas downstream has been ordered. Supervisor Bill Connelly said specifically people who live in Downtown Oroville, Thermalito, and Palermo. The Department of Water Resources said the the mandatory evacuation is now extending to the Sutter County line.
An evacuation center has been set up at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico. The Elks Lodge in Paradise is also opening their RV Park for free to evacuees. Space is limited in the RV Park.
Highway 99, leaving Oroville, has been shut down to all southbound traffic and all four lanes will be open to northbound traffic.
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Sorry no para breaks. Do we need to use HTML again? I’ve not been posting for a long while.
It’s my understanding via our own maggief that some/all of those power lines were purposely cut a couple days ago and that the turbines at the dam are offline.
Thanks for the link!
At 1:15 it shows water coming over the left side of the weir.
Ping ! Vid showing water to left of weir, & the weir itself:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mQkVr98xai0
Last Saturday the citizen reporter on Periscope live-streamed from under one of those towers. It was something to see!
An earlier report:
PG&E will need to continue work into Saturday to completely remove the towers using a helicopter to take down the transmission line in sections.
You guys are the boots on the ground in case Trump sends disaster relief funds directly to the places impacted, and by passes the CA government that is planning to secede anyhow.
My prayers are that Trump helps your community directly.
Have seen mention that the rock is soft limestone. Anyone have hard information on this detail?
Some of Sacramento’s underpasses tend to flood from just hard rains, based on thirty year old recollections.
If you are looking at that pic tom posted, the length and width of it is about 35’X20’ based on people and object height. For math-ez, let’s just say 50X20, or 1000 square feet. Now picture that surface area moving towards you as a solid wall of water at 1 foot per second. That’s 1000 cubic feet per second of water.
Pulling what I think is a reasonable number off the top of the dome of 20 feet per second (bit over 13 mph), that area would produce a flow of 20,000 cubic feet per second on a not seriously inclined slope.
Hopefully that gives a bit of perspective when you hear numbers like the 20,000-50,000 cfs going over the thrashed spillway, or the potential to have as much as 200,000 cfs coming out of the damaged overflow spillway come next rain (along with a betting pool on how long those 4,000 pound plastic bags of rocks will last).
Magnesium phosphate based rapid set concrete allows a repair to reach significant strength in one hour, and often 75% of ultimate strength within 24 hours.
If they were to let folks back in and parts of the dam still fail afterward, there will be a LOT of very VERY pissed off red county citizens.
A massive flood extended all the way to San Francisco, which is at the outlet for the accumulated river basins, will get their attention.
DWR challenged in 2005 concerning the emergency spillway surviving actual usage in a worst case rain event.
If a portion of the spillway goes, it will become a very live stream...
Criminal - and now they want us to bail them out for their malfeasance...
Anyone...,
How far is Beale AFB from this?
It would be our distinct honor and pleasure representing the FR community and showing its quality If so called. Even given the President’s exacting expectations.
There are quite a few of us up here.
So far so good. Just a minor inconvenience. Everything depends on keeping the lake 30 feet low so there is no pressure on the “emergency spillway”. The big risk comes when the lake is full and that wall is holding back all the pressure. We need that baby to hold and the rain to come lighter until we hit dry season and can fix both spillways.
We are not out of the woods but it is looking good. we will see how much rain falls Saturday & Sunday.
I am being put up in Sacramento, so I am good. My Yuba City home has flood insurance protection so I would take a hit but not lose my butt if the house got flooded. I would be entitled to SOMETHING after my very large deductible.
Meanwhile, the levees protecting Yuba City just got rebuilt so we should have adequate flood protection, as long as a wall of water doesn’t overtop our levees. Personally, I think that is impossible just because the levees on the Marysville side of Feather River are cotton candy and silk screen for all intents and purposes. The water would just blow their levees away, making it difficult to stack enough water to overtop our levees.
That is not to say I don’t wish I lived in Paradise right now, or Loma Rica, or Grass Valley or Nevada City or...
Meh. Wathca gonna do? shrug.
Obama would be glad to know I am a refugee relocated to Sacramento.
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