US Tallest Dam May Crumble At Any Time-Oroville Dam In California

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-oroville-spillway-20170210-story.html

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132066524.html

Please take precautions if you happen to be downstream.

That is all.

 

The dam itself is in no danger. Why did you find it necessary to sensationalize your thread title?

 

Not to worry, Donald will take care of it.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

 

Its called monkey see, monkey do, when the leftist groups and media constantly do this it becomes common speak.

 

Cats are smart like that.

 

It seems the untested emergency spillway is holding up--for now. More rain in the forecast.

https://www.facebook.com/LiveOakRev/posts/10155005142778524

 

Now there are dumping effluent through the emergency Oro-face.

 

They should build a wall to hold the water.

 

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article132154774.html

At various vista points in Oroville, a community of 15,000 just downstream of the dam, residents gathered under clear skies to gape in awe at the Feather River, so infused with mud and debris it resembled liquid clay as it tore through its channel.

Longtime resident Tom Oxford, 55, took in the view from a residential ridge on Mira Loma Drive, where the river surged beneath a railroad trestle. He took note that the trestle and levees on both sides were holding, with heavy moss rock that had been there for decades undisturbed by the fast-moving water.

Still, the sight was piercing. “We’ve never seen the river that brown before,” Oxford said, “and I’ve been here 50 years.”

“Then again,” he added, “we’ve never seen it go over the (emergency) outflow.”


Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article132154774.html#storylink=cpy

 

BREAKING: Marysville, Yuba County evacuated as Oroville spillway collapse feared

 

BREAKING: Oroville Dam emergency spillway eroding, could fail soon. Evacuations ordered for low-level areas from Oroville to Gridley | Watch live | Watch live coverage on Facebook

Title seems about right. Lots of news station in the area blaring much worse (all that is missing is a guy with his hair on fire running around)

Q - has anyone heard if any Ham emergency support organizations been activated?

 

Liberals don't like "walls".

Ed

 

They also don't tell the truth and over dramatize everything, who knows if the dam in so-called "failure" is even an issue. The army corp of engineers designs stuff with plenty of room before a failure. I suspect the media and local officials are using this for advertising revenue by getting page hits and higher viewer ratings. Drama, drama and more drama yields more money in their pockets.

 

I was monitoring PSK-31 on 20m yesterday. Saw one conversation in which a ham in Nevada County, CA (about 40 miles from Oroville) said the Oroville ARES org had been activated, as well as the ARES in neighbouring counties such as his.

73,

ch

 

BREAKING: Evacuation order lifted.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-...of-lake-oroville/ar-AAmUm99?OCID=ansmsnnews11