Posted on 02/14/2017 2:09:51 PM PST by Texas Eagle
Although, I must admit, even this press conference caught our insiders by surprised. The honchos went into a closed doors meeting for about an hour before this conference.
Wanted the glory for themselves maybe? Tired of facebook posts scooping press releases?
Sound advice.
It appears there’s no way of knowing what’s going on underneath until/if it dries out and they reduce levels considerably.
Can you give me a reader's digest version?
No, if you look at pictures from the time that the emergency spillway was in use, you’ll see the outflow from it, but look to the left (while looking up the hill) and you can see two relatively small trickles of water that appear to be well to the northeast of the emergency outflow. It starts downslope from the crest, so it doesn’t appear to be from overtopping, but perhaps from a sand boil.
Sorry damn = dam
It was an individual’s interview of one of the engineers working on the dam and when asked something about Oroville, the engineer said, “Stay the hell out of Oroville”.
Buy a truck, as big as you can, within the next hour.
Fill it with everything you can from home in the subsequent hour.
Flee.
Being home beats most all other options, even if you have to keep one eye on a dam!
Bug out bags with the important stuff for the next few months so you can GTHOOD at a moment’s notice.
Also, scout out an evac to higher ground that avoids the main route.
Dam is not repaired yet. They have just put you back in danger while they fix it.
My advice is keep your vehicle gassed up and bags/precious items ready to move at a moment’s notice.
In the 1955 flood, my family obeyed the evacuation order for Marysville. We left Marysville and went across the river to Yuba City for safety. About 8 hours later, in the middle of night, the Civil Defense horn was sounded in Yuba City because the levee had broken on the Yuba City side. We raced to the car and drove west, not stopping until we got to the coast range. Marysville never did flood. We had family friends who were closer to the break than we were who literally waded to their cars in rapidly rising water and just barely made it down the road to the west. 34 people didn’t make it.
You are absolutely correct. See my post about the 1955 flood. They knew the levee was failing south of town on the Yuba City side. In fact, my Dad had been out there working on it along with many volunteers and had come back to the place we were staying for “dinner” (it was after midnight) when the CD horn blew signaling there was a break and for everyone to haul ass. Which we did.
I suspect the conversion of mandatory to voluntary has more to do with the impossibility of controlling all those people who want to go home. If they are in places like Gridley and Live Oak, I sure hope they’re being told to be ready to bolt at a moment’s notice and NOT to try to get to Chico if the dam goes ...
“We have inside information. “
How can you possibly have insider foreknowledge of storm conditions and runoff for the next five days and beyond? Do you work for Dick Cheney’s weather machine crew?
From one of the on-site principal engineers:
Hole is only 8% filled. The hole in the spillway is leaking back into the reservoir.
Direct Quote: “Stay the hell out of Oroville.”
Use the opportunity to get irreplaceables and go back to where you came from.
Water finds a way. OSO proved that. No warning and the hill came down on an entire community.
YOU KNOW what the situation is there. Get the rest of what you need and go back to someplace not in the flow pattern of that dam.
As an engineer, that’s my advice. Repairs on that thing will likely take draining it, or diverting the water back away from the damage and repairing it. $100M is the number they are yanking from their nether regions. I don’t buy it.
Essentially, Oroville has a time bomb under it. Best way to think of it. It’s unexploded ordnance.
Now you should go down to Sacramento and demand Jerry Browns head.
Here’s the link to the thread with the videos.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3524910/posts
2 videos up there of a worker interviewing a principal engineer. Engineers - real ones - can’t lie. It’s just not in them.
Check it out, get your stuff, get back to where you were.
Sorry, go to post 883 and scroll toward the end of the thread.
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