Lake Oroville Dam Is Failing -Main Spillway to open soon pg. 79

What do you think about Sacramento?

This Saturday will be interesting.

Sooooo what new information do you have?

A... its been failing for 4 days.its old news.

I believe they will have to accept it! It won't be long.

Unfortunately, I believe that the dam will fail. This means that Sacramento is in serious trouble.

Thread: the damn breaks next week.... it's the one you saw on the folded bill.

that water will just be absorbed into the ground within 1 mile. seriously you folks are chicken littles.

Soooo, if you want to discuss this catastrophe seriously hang around. If not, hit the road.

I know the area very well if you got questions

Thank you

Will this flood Sacramento?

Almonds / orchards make up the farming in area... as well as rice in Biggs

Yes

The term, "the Valentine's Day massacre" keeps going through my head. I pray to God I am wrong!

Tucker Carlson said they've known repairs have been needed for ten years but "Heckuva Job Brownie" went all out for high speed rail. It would have been an easy fix during the drought when the lake was lower.

The next overflow will be danger zone for sure.

^^ They will repair it as soon as they have enough material on scene.

For a tiny fraction of the trillions that have been pissed away in the M.E. This tragedy could have been prevented.

Probably. The river flows into it and Sacramento is really low. 60' above sea level.

He is right.

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"high speed rail" is code

how many evacuees so far and where are they staying ?

OP - share some thoughts. I am guessing you mean to say that the spillway will fail. The damn is some distance from the spillway and E-spillway and do not see how the actual damn itself will fail.

I have watched several earthen damns and levies fail from liquefaction. So despite all the news today saying that they have avoided further erosion below the emergency spillway by allowing more flow out of the main spillway thereby lowering the lake level that - those efforts have ZERO affect on the substrate soil and the liquefaction that could take place. Don't get me wrong - there is way more eradication of the spillway than can be filled with rocks and concrete at this point. But I think with the upcoming rains and the build up of pressure under the emergency spillway - that is where I am thinking we have failure.

I am also thinking catastrophic landslide could happen under the main spillway if they continue at >100kgps outflow.

What are you thinking?

Just look at the present condition of the emergency overflow.

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180,000. They are staying in areas just outside the danger zone.

How the hell they gonna patch it with the water flowing so powerfully!? Dropping. Cement in? Rocks, half that shit is gonna be washed away!! That won't work... I've worked on water feature repairs, which lol I know doesn't compare to this, but I've used small amounts of hydraulic cement, which dries under water... The stuff works great when you don't have an insane amount of water flowing over it before it dries!! Idk if there is some special technique they use??

Can they redirect it over to the 101 to Hollywood?

the people I know were sent to chico