Posted on 08/22/2018 9:05:29 AM PDT by rktman
Full header: "Hundreds of Thousands of Californians Almost Lost Everything Thanks to Progressive Politicians and Scientists"
How quickly Californians and the media forget. Less than 18 months ago over 200,000 Californians faced the possibility of losing everything--their homes, their belongings, their livelihoods, even the towns they live in – not because of drought but because of rain as the nearby Oroville Dam threatened to collapse.
The dam in Northern California is the highest in the United States. It was struggling to cope with the amount of rain and melted snow pouring into the reservoir. A failure would have seen multiple towns wiped off the map. It was almost one of the worst catastrophes in American history.
At the time California embarked on a desperate attempt to divert water and repair the dam. And of course there were equally desperate attempts to divert attention from those responsible for allowing it to happen.
For this was no “natural disaster." It was the result of a wet winter meeting decades of infrastructural neglect, but more importantly, it is the result of California’s liberal establishment corrupting science and working with partisan scientists to push a political ideology.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Welcome to the Hotel California.
But their rulers and those they’ve worshiped have cashed in big...rejoice!
More seriously, these same politicians have allocated an incredible amount of money to get people out their CO2-producing cars. Governor Brown decided the state needed to spend $40 billion on a “bullet train” from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The only thing fast about this train is how quickly the costs are going up. It is now projected to cost $64 billion and has been delayed for years.
Of course, a fraction of that cost could have secured the Oroville Dam and probably every other dam in California. But that never crossed the minds of California’s liberal politicians who believed they were entering a new water-scarce world.
The scientific consensus told them so. Dr. Gleick, a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur “genius” Fellowship, an appointee to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and “a visionary on the environment” according to the BBC, warned that California had hit “peak water” and that the state should “prepare for the worst, since there is no indication that nature will bail us out in the near future.”
Had Oroville Dam failed, I would likely no longer live in Sacramento, CA, because most of the city would have suffered catastrophic flood damage from a full dam nearly 1,000 feet high failing.
Yup. Lots of the downstream places would have vanished. But as long as the bullet (can you say bullet in Ca anymore?) train was safe.
There is still a crack in the face of the dam with green moss growing out of it. That hasn’t been fixed yet. That will be the eventual cause of the dam’s failure. Ireally need to move out of Oroville Dam’s floodplain before then.
The evacuation was no fun. Spent 4 hours creeping at speeds under 5 mph or flat stopped. Thank goodness I never let the gas tank go under half full. You never know when you need to bug out.
Michael Mann? I thought the charlatan salesman of the famous “hockey stick” theory was long gone. The most attractive advantages of being a liberal snake oil purveyor are 1) never having to say you’re sorry or 2) fear of losing your job.
Breitbart article mentioning green grass growing along the crack in the dam face which the Engineering professor calls, “especially alarming”.
Well yws, I would say so. Water shouldn’t seep through the wall of your glass or the side of your bathtub. When it has been seeping thrugh the face of the 2nd largest dam in California and could cause a catastrophic failure, yes I would call that alarming. Here is hoping I move before she fails. Every man for himself.
Over the hill. Over the hill.
Sorry, forgot the link in my above post.
But, But, But they have to do a few years of enviromental studies before they fix the dam.
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You can “check out,” but you cannot leave!
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Relax!
The green grass wasn’t from water ‘seeping’ through, but running over the surface. (it wasn’t a crack either)
Great article. Needs to go nationwide as whack-o environmentalism isn’t limited to just California. The whole country suffers at the hands of those that are true believers as well their cohorts on the absolute left that use environmentalism to forward their own BIG GOVERNMENT agenda whether they believe in environmentalism, or not.
Since I live 25 miles downstream I am naturally most interested in this topic. Long story short I have talked to many people about this and read extensively about it and it all boils down to a lack of maintenance by the State of California over the last 50 years. And it also effects many other dams built in the 60’s.
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