Posted on 02/13/2017 4:12:07 PM PST by lionstar
Tens of thousands of residents fled Oroville, California, on Sunday after water levels surged over a spillway at the Oroville Dam. Traffic jams reigned on highways leading north from Oroville, where officials ordered people to evacuate at 4:45 p.m.
Oroville families, who made their way to the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico and other staging areas, face uncertainty in the coming days. By late Sunday night, water from Lake Oroville was no longer rushing over the top of the dam’s emergency spillway, thanks to efforts by California water authorities to increase the flow of water out of the reservoir. But the spillways sustained damage during Sunday’s flooding. Officials are attempting to measure that damage as they consider next steps.
“The dam is solid,” said Bill Croyle, acting director for the California state Department of Water Resources, during a press conference. “The control structure has been damaged.”
The problems started last Tuesday, when a hole opened up in the Oroville Dam’s primary spillway. The collapse in this main, concrete-lined spillway led authorities to take an unprecedented step by the end of the week, as heavy storms mounted. On Saturday, the state water agency opened up the dam’s emergency spillway for the first time ever. Its collapse would have sent a “30-foot wall of water” crashing out of the lake reservoir, according to the Los Angeles Times. The emergency spillway, also described as the auxiliary spillway, is more or less a hill that drains down into the Feather River.
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Dude, they are going to blame Trump for how bright the Sun is, along with people losing vision. Just you wait!
Trump hasn’t unveiled his infrastructure program for starters. Wasn’t California screaming to secede? Guess that doesn’t sound so good now
No, it exposes the flaws in Obama’s “infrastructure plan.”
California state Department of Water Resources seems to be the ones to blame. Where were they when the lakes were empty and the water was low enough to easily mend the broken spillway? I guess the monies were more needed to build the train to nowhere.
If I’m not mistaken, isn’t it President Trump’s fault that there aren’t more helicopters and more boulders to shore up the damn, and I also think it’s President Trump’s fault that it might rain later this week
"Hey, Gov. Brown, you didn't build that!"
...oh wait, maybe he did.
“The Oroville Dam Crisis Exposes the Flaws in Trump’s Infrastructure Plan”
What a stretch!!
#FAKENEWS
CNN will be running with this soon.
CNN #FAKENEWS
The CA admin was warned 12 years ago of the possibility. So now they blame Trump like the libtards blamed Bush for 9/11
Exposes the Flaws in Trump’s Infrastructure Plan, Trumps fault NOTHING TO DO WITH RAT POLITICIANS AND RAT POLICIES
Too funny.
Then, I guess, California doesn’t need federal assistance.
Tell Moonbeam to go pound sand.
Jerry Brown owns this wreck.
DeLeon’s legislature own this wreck......
I wondered how long it would take for the leftists fools to try and pin the blame on Trump; nevermind the man hasn’t been in office a month.
What?
It’s like 21 days since Trump started!
How is it he screwed up this dam issue? Did he build it wrong? Fail to put adequate roads in place for evac? What is it?
Democrats are totally disconnected from reality. It’s just amazing. Do they really believe what they are saying? I know that they believe telling a lie often enough makes it truth. But, this is mental illness.
The Democrat party is on life support. It is time to pull the plug.
Trump has been in office for three weeks
“I guess the monies were more needed to build the train to nowhere.”
And provide lots of bennies to criminal illegal aliens.
And sanctuary cities, illegals, etc.
Must be something in the Kalifornia water that causes things to take a dump. They will blame that on Trump as well.
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