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Amateur video of Oroville dam overflowing 2/13/17
YouTube ^ | 2/13/17 | JR

Posted on 02/13/2017 8:47:52 AM PST by Trumpnation

Amature video shot today close to the dam.


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KEYWORDS: california; dam; lakeoroville; oroville; orovilledam
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To: Trumpnation

That is not an overflowing situation, it is a controlled release down the main (but damaged) spillway. The emergency spillway is not visible in that video, it is to the far left and is not overflowing this morning.


21 posted on 02/13/2017 9:07:12 AM PST by wrench
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To: TexasGator

You’re posting from the future?

I ask because the video is dated the 13th.


22 posted on 02/13/2017 9:08:38 AM PST by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: wrench; All

Here’s a live feed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T8Gz0kMxBw


23 posted on 02/13/2017 9:13:00 AM PST by Carriage Hill ( Poor demoncrats haven't been this mad, since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: yldstrk

They are probably all high

I recall someone once sent a note to their congress critter, something along the lines:

Is the entire legislature all drunk, all the time?

I would be pretty upset if all weekend I had heard its okay, its okay, we have it all under control, and then told at sunset on Sunday, to get out.


24 posted on 02/13/2017 9:13:51 AM PST by Jolla
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To: MeganC

UMMMMMM Today IS the 13th.


25 posted on 02/13/2017 9:14:21 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: abigkahuna

Are you able to see the dam from your location, which is the same level as the top of the dam? You might want to charge up any video cameras you have (including cellphones) because you might see the beginnings of the destruction of everything essentially downstream on the Feather River to the Sutter and Yolo Bypasses, with possible damage as far south as Dixon! :-O


26 posted on 02/13/2017 9:18:26 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Trumpnation
Just saw video from today and it looks like water has stopped running over the parking lot and the emergency spillway which is good....only the auxiliary spillway still has water on it.

Does anyone know if that other large storm that was making its way in is still coming in this direction?

27 posted on 02/13/2017 9:18:42 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: Trumpnation

Mis-titled video. That’s not the dam overflowing. That’s not even the emergency spillway. That’s the main spillway (with the hole in it) fed through the controllable gates.


28 posted on 02/13/2017 9:19:31 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Trumpnation

Looks like a clip of the periscope stream from yesterday.


29 posted on 02/13/2017 9:21:01 AM PST by PJBankard
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To: Mr. K
The people get the government they deserve in this case is very true. Keeping voting Democrat dillweeds and this is the real world consequence.

This is the real world consequence of electing people who are more interested in helping illegal aliens then they are keeping you safe.

This is the real world consequence of putting people in office who are more concerned with social justice then the social contract they have to the state of California and its people.

This is the real world consequence of electing people who have their heads in the BS envinwackos clouds rather than practical Americans with their feet firmly planted on the ground who worry about silly things like emergency dam spill ways .

This is the real world consequence of saying FU to reality, Americanism and embracing progressive liberalism

Its almost biblical - you'd think I'd hate living here but its awesome these days getting to goad these liberal pricks - so easy to trigger then I laugh and laugh.

Yeah this is the consequence of living life in accordance with liberal leftist progressive values, policies it will probably end in misery and lots of needless death - Keep voting for Democrats California DAMit!

30 posted on 02/13/2017 9:22:22 AM PST by datricker (Democratic Party - aborting their voter base since 1973)
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To: babble-on

Thanks!


31 posted on 02/13/2017 9:22:35 AM PST by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and VP Mike Pence Daily)
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To: Sasparilla
What a way to end a drought.

I have no doubt the "planners" of California will soon be warning us all that — despite the unfortunate events at the Oroville — the drought is not over, and Californians must continue water conservation efforts.

And oh by the way, your taxes will be going up to pay for the flood damage.

This while continuing to send tens of millions of gallons of fresh into the Pacific ocean every day.

And Californians will continue to feel much smarter than the bitter clingers in the other 49 states.

32 posted on 02/13/2017 9:22:49 AM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Mr. K

If I understand it correctly, Army Corps of Engineers has to approve releases. If true, 2 q’s: Were releases requested? If so, how many and how many of those were approved, when?


33 posted on 02/13/2017 9:22:54 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: MeganC

YouTube only allows one to post videosome the day they were recorded?


34 posted on 02/13/2017 9:25:38 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: PAR35

Yup.

While 3/4 of a million gallons of water a second dropping close to 800 feet is quite dramatic, what the video shows is a controlled release.


35 posted on 02/13/2017 9:26:05 AM PST by wrench
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To: NEMDF

But the video is from yesterday.


36 posted on 02/13/2017 9:26:35 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: Trumpnation

You KNOW of course, it’s Bush’s fault!


37 posted on 02/13/2017 9:28:07 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: abigkahuna

Thankful you and yours are okay. Thank you for this update.


38 posted on 02/13/2017 9:30:12 AM PST by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: Lady Heron

Yes. Rain supposed to start Wed. night followed by seven days of rain off and on.


39 posted on 02/13/2017 9:33:40 AM PST by freds6girlies (many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30. R.I.P. G & J)
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To: TexasGator

Although often referred to as the emergency spillway it is officially called the auxiliary spillway.


Some call it an undocumented spillway or dreamer spillway.


40 posted on 02/13/2017 9:33:41 AM PST by Flick Lives
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