Nearly one foot of rain forecast for Oroville Dam area in the next 5 days

When it rains, it pours.

The girls, don't they warn ya?

This can't be happening. I remember reading about the California drought being the "new normal" because of catastrophic climate change. #notmyclimate

"Climate Change" is anything you want to make it. I'm going to state that it is the fault of Climate Change that California is getting so much rain this year, just don't ask me to back that up with any factual data because I will verbally BEAT YOU DOWN!

Sincerely,

A Typical Wacko

That works well. Alternatively, you can point to made up data by NOAA if that fits your narrative.

Presumably this is God's punishment of (almost) the only region in CA that voted for Trump.

Howard Dean wrote:

This can't be happening. I remember reading about the California drought being the "new normal" because of catastrophic climate change. #notmyclimate

I suggest learning what normal means in statistics.

RealBBer wrote:

That's not good

It's also fake news

Lake Oroville should be empty enough to handle new storm, hydrologist says

11:55 a.m.

As water levels continue to drop at Lake Oroville, the state’s chief hydrologist said Tuesday the reservoir should be empty enough to withstand the next round of rainstorms expected to hit late Wednesday.

Department of Water Resources hydrologist Maury Roos said the lake is expected to be holding about 3.15 million acre-feet of water by late Wednesday, leaving about 380,000 acre-feet of empty space.

“That would be adequate for the size of the storm that’s forecast,” Roos said. “We’d like to have more.”

Ideally, flood-control manuals say the lake should be down to 2.79 million acre-feet for this time of year, but that’s in anticipation of “a very large flood,” Roos said. “There’s nothing in the (weather) outlook that suggests we’re going to get that.”

DWR has been frantically releasing water from its damaged spillway at 100,000 cubic feet per second to empty out space before the next storm approaches. The lake was at 887 feet high just before noon, 14 feet below the top of the dam, and has been dropping about a half a foot per hour.

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Looks like people are allowed to return home so they must not be too worried. We'll see if things change this weekend with more rain expected

Someone left the cake out in the rain

and I don't think that I can take it

Because it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have the recipe again, Oh No.

stats is fun wrote:

I suggest learning what normal means in statistics.

You're preaching to the choir bro. The mouth breathing climate doomsayers are the ones that need an education on statistics and science in general.

this story is about the failure of knowing dam controls. The people operating the dam should be fired, IMO, for waiting too long to spill on the main spillway when it was still sound. It is similar to the mistakes made in the control room in Chernobyl IMO.

Reportedly, crews are using an experimental material in an attempt to reinforce the concrete weir at the top of the emergency, aka auxiliary spillway. The fear is the water is going to scour around the soil that is at the ends of weir--where the soil meets the concrete. The material manufactured using vermiculite and is dark red in color. It's lightweight-about the density of popcorn, so it's easy to handle for the emergency crews. It's placed on the soil/concrete interface, right at the end of the weir--kind of like backer board on a tile floor.

It's name--Oroville Red End Backer. Manufactured in Valparaiso, Indiana.

The slurry is being poured between large stones. They seem to be trying to create an interlocking matrix of stones and slurry.