Posted on 04/19/2017 3:09:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Late in the afternoon of Feb. 12, Sheriff Kory Honea was at the emergency operations center for the tallest dam in America when he overheard someone say something that stopped him in his tracks: "This is not good."
Over six straight days, the operators of the Oroville Dam had been saying there was no immediate danger after water surging down the main spillway gouged a hole the size of a football field in the concrete chute. But now suddenly they realized that the dam's emergency backup spillway — essentially an unpaved hillside — was falling apart, too, and could unleash a deadly torrent of water.
Honea reacted by ordering the immediate evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream.
Typical less - than - competent government “workers”. What’s new?
By the book, major screw-up.
Now, these folks want hundreds of millions and want to hide their past mistakes.
Fools.
CA would rather spend billions in tax dollars on millions of criminal illegal aliens than it’s own infrastructure, or safety and security for it’s own citizens who live in the state.
This is a fact.
When the Sierra Club wants you to pave a hillside, you might want to re-consider your position.
FreeRepublic has a great 3000 post thread by janetjanet998 keeping track of this for the last 2 months.
It is probably one of three discussion areas covering this incident that has made a real time difference in keeping information flowing.
California: “We have a perma-drought!”
God: “Oh, yeah? Your cup will runneth over.”
Ok, you just got “best reply of the day” in my book. :)
When the Sierra Club wants you to pave a hillside, you might want to re-consider your position.
Good one!
Best Dam coverage here: https://goo.gl/NnBKw6
You don’t make missteps you make mistakes. You take steps and sometimes misstep. The bad thing about the internet is that too many people are writing and there aren’t any editors. Language changes but I think it is happening way too fast.
I’m pretty sure the faulty construction of the spillways was caused by global warming, either that or climate change, though I’m not exactly sure. Put it’s gotta be one or the other. Maybe even both. 99.999999999% of scientists agree.
Juan Browne on YouTube as Blancolirio
Best Dam coverage here:
https://goo.gl/NnBKw6
Juan has a press pass from his local newspaper. Has the excellent ability to summarize recent information, personal observations, videos and questions from others into the most excellent example of citizen-journalism I have ever seen.
Take the time to watch some of his video posts and you will take a primer on how events should be presented.
New media at its best.
May I make one correction. They would rather spend “California tax dollars” pay for illegal immigration and then have 49 other states come to their rescue with FREE dollars to fix all their shit!!!!
Juan’s view is pretty good. He is a commercial freight airline pilot (777) and he seems to to convey technical items in a coherent manner.
Thanks for your excellent and detailed summary, I was on my way out the door but I wanted to get it out there because Juan is not only accurate and concise but entertaining as well.
Anyone interested in the Oroville Dam calamity of 2017 should start at his first video fly over and watch all of his subsequent coverage.
I think it starts here: https://goo.gl/NnBKw6
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article144500114.html
Bee Sack: “The Sacramento Bee reported that state officials had refused to release certain dam inspection reports and other records, citing federal regulations designed to thwart terrorist attacks.”
The Russians stole the handle.
I listened to a recent radio report on this subject, a gentleman from some infrastructure crisis management organization claimed ha that e spill way paved section was covered with only 4” of concrete seamed slabs, indicating that the poor design was bound to failure.
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