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02-12-2017, 10:43 PM
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160,000 evacuated below Oroville Dam
Butte, Sutter & Butte Counties. Looks like the situation is not as grave as it was 2 hours ago.
Prayers to all.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/cal...l#wgt=trending
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02-12-2017, 11:57 PM
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I guess the drought is over.
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02-13-2017, 12:22 AM
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Actually, this could have a major impact, worse than the drought, on California water supplies. Lake Oroville supplies a huge % of water to Southern California. It depends on what they need to do in order to fix the spillway. It's hard right now to ascertain facts... the 1st order to evacuate was obviously done (and properly so, IMHO) very radically because there was a chance the spillway would collapse in less than an hour after the 1st announcement.
They've lowered the lake by 1/2 foot in 2 hours, but this is from media reports that I can see and not from Calfornia's Water authority. Looks like now the media is sensationalizing this difficult situation...
Hopefully there are more concrete facts in the a.m.
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02-13-2017, 12:51 AM
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They've lowered the lake by 1/2 foot in 2 hours
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Amazing. I know that's a huge dam.
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02-13-2017, 12:32 PM
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They were warned of exactly this in 2005.
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02-13-2017, 12:48 PM
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They are already jumping on the climate change band wagon. This will be politics as usual. I am in Sacramento, and the radio is going bonkers on how this is the climate change deniers fault.
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02-13-2017, 01:04 PM
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So it's the Denialists' fault that they're having some weather they haven't had in a few years, a gap that has been caused by the Denialists in the first place? I didn't realize us Denialists had that kind of power.
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02-13-2017, 01:21 PM
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The right is the cause, the left is the solution..Always
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02-13-2017, 01:30 PM
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They were warned of exactly this in 2005.
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The warnings of the danger of the Levee system in New Orleans were traced back to 1968
You can almost always find warnings that were ignored
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02-13-2017, 02:21 PM
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I guess the drought is over.
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It's been over for awhile. Maybe far down south it might be in effect but drought in northern half of the state ended over a month ago.
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02-13-2017, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
The warnings of the danger of the Levee system in New Orleans were traced back to 1968
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Did they spend all of their infrastructure money on high speed rail too? 
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02-17-2017, 02:00 PM
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The heaviest storm in years is supposed to start in next few hours. The ground is mostly already waterlogged so flash flooding and slides are likely. I hope the dam does not get undercut and collapse as thousands could die...
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02-17-2017, 02:57 PM
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I talked to a civil engineer here in Southern California yesterday who said they've know for 10 years that there were major issues with Oroville Dam, and Jerry Brown has taken the $$ that was earmarked for the repairs and spent it on the High-Speed rail system here in California. Where is the media talking about this?
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02-17-2017, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by MikeH
I talked to a civil engineer here in Southern California yesterday who said they've know for 10 years that there were major issues with Oroville Dam, and Jerry Brown has taken the $$ that was earmarked for the repairs and spent it on the High-Speed rail system here in California. Where is the media talking about this?
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There are unconfirmed rumors that Jerry will not be in Sacramento this weekend. 
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