Moonbeam, you some splaining to do.
Trump needs to get the Feds to amealerate this and then beat the 'rats about their heads for their incompentence.
I thought the level was now below the top and the spillway isn’t even spilling water any more? Does anyone know what’s going on over there?
It has always
puzzled me why anyone would live below a damn
They’ve set up contraflow on multilane highways to aid evacuation, that’s something I’ve only heard of in the southeast ahead of hurricane landfall in this country. So, it does appear that there was at least some emergency planning, which is a relief. I’ve been sitting here dumbfounded that the situation has been allowed to get so far out of hand to begin with. That deferred maintenance is criminal. Heads should roll, but I suspect they won’t, since the Democrat controlled state government is obviously unconcerned about the Republican parts of the state.
Colusa County Fairgrounds redirecting to Orland
Beale AFB is allowing drive thru from Doolittle Gate to Grass Valley gate; also setting up a shelter at the gym - park at Dragon Town for the bus
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html
Looking at the water coming over the spillway and that can’t be good.
Looks like it could erode the base of the damn at some point.
Prayers that it holds and everyone is safe...
Yuba County just announced evacuations.
I hope this thing holds...
If this thing breaks, looks like it could reach Sacramento.
Horrible...
Count me in. I evacuated at 7:00 and didn’t make it to Sacramento until after 11:30 PM. Normally a 55 minute drive. Weird night. Nobody was moving on the highways and we were crawling on the back roads. You come up on a ranch at a decent elevation and it would be packed with cars and trucks with horse trailers spending the night I guess. I had a house to bail to in Sacramento and didn’t have to find a hotel, so that is what I did.
Trump is not joking about that trillion in infrastructure that is needed. It goes WAY WAY beyond roads and bridges. There is a lot of stuff you don’t see or think about like sewers, gas mains, underground electrical vaults, storm drains, airport tarmacs, and yes even dam spillways, all that have not been maintained in years beyond the occasional band-aid.
And then there are the California eco-nazis who want to tear the dams down and sue any time you want to repair a dam, let alone build a new one.
Maybe this high profile near-catastrophe or coming-catastrophe will wake up your average California commie lib to the fact that the environmental nazis are ruining things by blocking new infrastructure construction and repair and maintenance on existing systems.
Maybe the typical whacked out California commie-lib tax payer will support the building of new dams for water storage AND flood control, and tell the environmental Nazis to go to hell.
Nah, they are still Stuck on Stupid. They would rather see hundreds die and billions of dollars lost than let us build another BADLY NEEDED dam.
Anybody know if this is close enough to Sacramento to have an adverse effect on someone driving south from Oregon to Sacramento?
From watching and reading earlier this evening, seems like they—the authorities—did not take this seriously. They should have been warning people to get moving 24 hours ago, not last night.
who decided to hold back the water
to endanger everyone?
National Guard activated
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/the-latest-officials-order-evacuation-near-california-dam/
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on problems with an emergency spillway at the nation’s tallest dam (all times local):
11:50 p.m.
A California National Guard official says they will provide eight helicopters to assist with emergency spillway reconstruction at the nation’s tallest dam located about 150 miles northeast of San Francisco.
Adjunct General David S. Baldwin said at a news conference late Sunday that the helicopters will also be available for search and rescue Monday near the Oroville Dam.
He added that the California National Guard put out a notification to all 23,000 soldiers and airmen to be ready to deploy if needed.
Baldwin says the last time an alert like Sunday’s was issued for the entire California National Guard was the 1992 riots.
Evacuations for at least 188,000 people were ordered after officials warned the emergency spillway was in danger of failing and unleashing uncontrolled flood waters on towns below.
Should this turn into a true catastrophe, I pray the president is fully prepared to get the necessary aide to the people IMMEDIATELY!! He promised he would be president to all the people and this means ALL of us.
If he or any of his people even attempt to play politics with something like this it will go very, very badly for him and the rest of us who so strongly support him.
California cannot be trusted with emergency money. They will use it to build a golden statue of Barack Obama instead. California does not need federal help...they have said so.
