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Failure of the spillway at the Oroville dam is imminent. Evacuation order for Oroville, south through Gridley.

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Reminds me of that dam in West Virginia many years ago.
No. Wait. It was Pennsylvania. Johnstown? In the late 18 hundreds.
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Press conference at 6. News was saying failure by 5:35. Now saying evacuations for "an abundance of caution". If the spillway goes, the tallest dam in the U.S. will be at risk. It's an earthen dam, not cement.
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Holy Hell, hopin they get to gettin,water is nothin to shun! Prayers be to all
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Appalachia-Shiner wrote:Reminds me of that dam in West Virginia many years ago.
No. Wait. It was Pennsylvania. Johnstown? In the late 18 hundreds.
Austin Dam... I have pictures of what remains and have been there several times over the years... It was recently designated the Austin Dam Memorial Park...
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Appalachia-Shiner wrote:Reminds me of that dam in West Virginia many years ago.
No. Wait. It was Pennsylvania. Johnstown? In the late 18 hundreds.
Johnstown , PA and Buffalo Creek , WV were both major catastrophies .
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Idaho's Teton dam in '76 took out four towns killed 14 people and 13,000 cows

it was in the process of first filling, never got filled to capacity before it failed

corps of engineers at its best

so far they say the Oroville dam won't fail just the spillway

we shall see, corps of engineers after all. good luck

edit; the last I read was 2 hours ago.
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I just saw some pictures of it . Pretty scary for sure. They also expect another 4 inches of rain this week. We are getting a bunch of rain here but nothing like that. The Kern river that usually flows around 300 to 500 cfs is running at 1400 cfs and hit a high during the last rain of 8000 cfs. with one big surge on the 8th of 24000 cfs. It has been a strange winter out here.
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Just a couple days ago on the news they thought that the dam was safe even though there was a large sink hole in the spill way. Things change rapidly thoughts are with the people in the area.
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Seen it on the news ...Be addin prayer for everyone out there.
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Hope all are safe.. Sad when stuff like this happens.
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One usually hears about California being on fire but not about it flooding. My kid has been part of a crew working a little north of that area for the last few months, living in motel rooms and eating in 'greasy spoons'. He hasn't made any money in the last couple of weeks though because of all the rain...
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rad14701 wrote:
Appalachia-Shiner wrote:Reminds me of that dam in West Virginia many years ago.
No. Wait. It was Pennsylvania. Johnstown? In the late 18 hundreds.
Austin Dam... I have pictures of what remains and have been there several times over the years... It was recently designated the Austin Dam Memorial Park...
Johnstown flood and the Austin dam failure are two separate events roughly 12 years apart.

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It seems like the easiest way for us to get in trouble is to underestimate the awesome power of nature.
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Uncle Jesse wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2017 5:24 pm Failure of the spillway at the Oroville dam is imminent. Evacuation order for Oroville, south through Gridley.
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A month or so ago it reached a level low enough that they can't generate electricity.
contrahead wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:15 pm
Tonight I was looking back through “Off Topic threads" (20 pages so far) in search for another topic entirely. In the midst of a conversation a week ago, I had forgotten the name of this lake; but knew that it had changed in character. Tonight by accident,I find its name again.

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Seems like a good place to go metal detecting.
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This lake is misnamed. It should have been named “Lake Yo-yo”.

"...Lake Oroville was 80% full as of Tuesday. The historical average level for that day — March 14 — was 71% over the last 30 years..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... ree-months

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contrahead wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:23 am This lake is misnamed. It should have been named “Lake Yo-yo”.

"...Lake Oroville was 80% full as of Tuesday. The historical average level for that day — March 14 — was 71% over the last 30 years..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... ree-months


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