BREAKING - Oroville & Marysville CA ordered evacuated

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 02/12/2017 - 9:49pm

BUTTE COUNTY, CA — Fire officials have issued evacuation orders for residents in Oroville, Marysville and areas of Yuba County Sunday evening. Officials said via social media that the auxiliary spillway of the Oroville Dam expected to fail. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for Oroville at 4:15 p.m.

http://patch.com/california/castrovalley/s/g139y/oroville-dam-evacuation...

The residents are being directed to Chico

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Oroville Evacuation
Anticipated spillway failure
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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 02/12/2017 - 10:15pm
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Submitted by Ellen North on Sun, 02/12/2017 - 10:59pm

I hope they drop those rocks carefully...

Too bad there's never money for infrastructure in the richest country in the world, or maybe the levees (so to speak) wouldn't be in danger of breaking in so many places.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 02/12/2017 - 11:07pm
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@Ellen North

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 02/13/2017 - 2:00am
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http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/slideshow/Dramatic-photos-Damage-to-Orovil...

This article has more information and a timeline of problems with the dam and it looks like no more water is going over the emergency spillway

10:15 p.m.
Authorities say there is no more water going over the emergency spillway at a Northern California dam.

Helicopters had been dropping rocks into the sinkhole before they had to release more water to try to keep it from getting worse, but it looks like the whole spillway is going to be needing replaced.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/The-Latest-Officials-order-evacuat...
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Submitted by LeChienHarry on Mon, 02/13/2017 - 4:28am
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It looks like there are photos from Feb. 7 showing the sink hole and erosion into the side of the small spillway. Then there are photos from Feb. 9 showing very significant water spillage over that same auxiliary spillway. It looks like they released water into the damaged spillway.

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Submitted by eyo on Mon, 02/13/2017 - 4:53am

@LeChienHarry yes they did that at first, to protect the dam. It is California's largest dam. I was hoping they knew what they were doing, because it sure looked like a dumb idea with that gaping hole in the original spillway. Better that fail then the dam itself I guess. Then whoa what a spectacular explosion of water and debris when it hit that hole. Wow. Might as well have been dynamite.
The National Guard has been called out. I read that on Breitbart.

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