ALERT: Evacuate Northern California NOW (Feather River) NOW, Oroville Dam about to burst!!!

major infrastructure spending is needed to update essential structures throughout the country, many of which were built in the 1930s.

The problem with the main spillway is that it wasn't laid on bedrock. That red stuff is decomposed granite and it erodes like crazy…as you can see. There appears to be about 20' of it under the concrete spillway on average. Pretty sure the gate structure would be tied into bedrock. I sure hope erosion doesn't creep all the way up there either way.

It looks to me like the high water level went out of the lake up into a parking lot and around the emergency spillway. Not sure, but it appears to be failing where water was never supposed to be.

Permanent drought is over wrote:

Sacramento is being targeted, but it's not there yet.

NOT A DRILL. Evacuate to the North.

No, it's not. Learn geography.

This emergency spillway indeed very hard to locate when you look at a satellite view:

https://tinyurl.com/hhdrxmn

Really scary to see that part of the Oroville Dam Road is now gone.

Well it looks like there's at least one shovel ready job for Trump's $1 trillion of infrastructure spending. I hope at least some of it goes to rebuilding this dam.

No money for dam rebuilding. We need our Choo-choo train from Fresno to Bakersfield.

50 Shades Of Grey Area wrote:

DAM YOU OBAMA!!

RUSSIA's messing with our dams now!! Damn PUTIN!!

Basically, they are worrying about undermining the whole dam. If that were to happen, which is very unlikely, the whole could fail and then they'd really have something to worry about.

The current failure of the spillway is eroding a small amount of the dam, but is pretty far down the face of the dam. At that location, the dam is very thick. It would take the continuation of the high moisture weather they're experiencing, and the dam operators not doing anything at all for the undermining of the dam to occur. They've opened the spill way to drop reservoir levels because some erosion of the spillway is a lot better than complete failure.

This is something to be concerned about, but it is not as scary as the news makes it out to be.

Red Voters wrote:

NOAHarrrrrk wrote:

This is the punishment for their wicked ways.

The area below the dam is very red republican. Wicked indeed.

What on god's green earth made you think that statement was only about democrats?

You must have gone to a public school. sheesh

flabby wrote:

Basically, they are worrying about undermining the whole dam. If that were to happen, which is very unlikely, the whole could fail and then they'd really have something to worry about.

The current failure of the spillway is eroding a small amount of the dam, but is pretty far down the face of the dam. At that location, the dam is very thick. It would take the continuation of the high moisture weather they're experiencing, and the dam operators not doing anything at all for the undermining of the dam to occur. They've opened the spill way to drop reservoir levels because some erosion of the spillway is a lot better than complete failure.

This is something to be concerned about, but it is not as scary as the news makes it out to be.

Fake news from the lib media. MSNBC already blaming Trump for not visiting the so-called disaster. I've had more waer in my basement than this trickle.

bort wrote:

I broke the dam

We all broke the dam

No Stan, wrote:

bort wrote:

I broke the dam

We all broke the dam

We don't give a dam.

Pray tell, why would you build your house under a freakin' dam?

Or a city on top of a seismic fault?

Or a town under an active volcano?

Wino wrote:

No Stan, wrote:

We all broke the dam

We don't give a dam.

Pray tell, why would you build your house under a freakin' dam?

Or a city on top of a seismic fault?

Or a town under an active volcano?

Or on the South side of Chicago?

Alternate Reality wrote:

How we got here is that the last time any money was spent in California on infrastructure was in the late 1970's.

All the state's money goes to overinflated employee pensions.

Then, of course, our great governor come up with ideas like the high speed rail.

It's a great idea if Trump pays for it!

Do it NOW wrote:

This was another good trollage by the OP. Takes a completely factual news flash, and turns into some crazy Trump ravings rather quickly.

The Subject was great, with the peripatetic double NOW, the hyperbolic "Evacuate Northern California", the claim the dam is ready to "burst", and the brief text (including that Sacramento might be targeted, well, in a week or so maybe) with "Evacuate to the North" (only applicable to those right by the dam, not those further along the river), well, LRC has some real troll pros.

Flobee wrote:

No money for dam rebuilding. We need our Choo-choo train from Fresno to Bakersfield.

You realize that money allocated by the government for high speed rail is required to be to be used for high speed rail?

It's either take the money and use is for what it's allocated or you don't get it at all. you can't say "I'll take the money but we are going to use it to repair dams".

longroad wrote:

You realize that money allocated by the government for high speed rail is required to be to be used for high speed rail?

It's either take the money and use is for what it's allocated or you don't get it at all. you can't say "I'll take the money but we are going to use it to repair dams".

Let's just say that it doesn't always work that way in practice...

Looks like another 7 days of rain/snow is coming. Could be 1861 all over again.

Wish I were that good wrote:

Do it NOW wrote:

This was another good trollage by the OP. Takes a completely factual news flash, and turns into some crazy Trump ravings rather quickly.

The Subject was great, with the peripatetic double NOW, the hyperbolic "Evacuate Northern California", the claim the dam is ready to "burst", and the brief text (including that Sacramento might be targeted, well, in a week or so maybe) with "Evacuate to the North" (only applicable to those right by the dam, not those further along the river), well, LRC has some real troll pros.

Yeah, like someone would turn to LRC to get up to the minute updates and advice on natural disasters!

I don't even trust meet results and shoe recommendations.