“The Oroville Dam is to be soaked by a foot of rain by Tuesday, ramping up the pressure on engineers who are frantically trying to repair ‘patch and pray’ quick-fixes which led to its near-collapse last week.”
Great. They’ve been performing “patch and pray” for quite some time.
Considering the area that the dam affects - they, actually, thought those procedures hold. Not so!
They’re too busy trying to initiate a One-Way-Westbound-Only Choo Choo Train.
After what we have observed since 08 Nov 2016 - they have been on attack mode incessantly; and, that behavior has earned them the badge of ... the media no longer matter.
The circulation numbers of their newspapers has tumbled and the TV ratings have proven to be dismal; good signs on both counts.