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California Dam Failing - Mass Evacuations Underway

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Yazata Offline
Oroville dam is one of the biggest dams in the US, at 770 feet high it's the tallest dam in the country. After tremendous rainfall recently the dam is failing and part of its spillway may collapse in a matter of hours. If it does collapse, Lake Oroville (California's second largest reservoir) will be released into the Butte County seat of Oroville downstream from the dam which can be expected to be swept away. Everyone is being told to evacuate immediately and drive north to Chico. Several local highways including highway 99 have been converted to all one-way and they are packed. Evacuation centers are being set up in Chico. (Including an equestrian evacuation center for horses. It's a rural area.) As usual, the Red Cross is already in action.

http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert...source=web

http://www.krcrtv.com/news/flash-flood-w.../330580560

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/12/off...a-dam.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Oroville

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville,_California

It isn't just Oroville that's threatened. If all this water reaches the lowlands around the Sacramento River, levees might conceivably fail down through Sacramento (a major city of 2 million people). The cities of Yuba City and Marysville have reportedly been given evacuation orders. (~150k people) Robocalls are going out and police cars with loudspeakers are making announcements in the streets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba_City,_California

Highways are packed with cars all fleeing the threatened towns, heading for high ground in the Sierra foothills. Others are heading for Sacramento and filling up hotels.

Water rescue teams from all over the state are being activated, including one from near where I live that was just interviewed on TV. They are heading to a staging area in Chico.

http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert...source=web

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/califor...32499.html

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/02/1...-spillway/
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elte Offline
What an ordeal for the people there.
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Zinjanthropos Offline
(Feb 13, 2017 02:53 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: who should all the people sue ?

I think it's about time God got sued. Smile

How many other countries are lining up to help the USA in case the dam gives way? Canadians are sending our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Maybe he can stick a finger in there. 

Isn't California the state that was undergoing drought conditions not too long ago?
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RainbowUnicorn Offline
(Feb 13, 2017 03:40 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote:
(Feb 13, 2017 02:53 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: who should all the people sue ?

I think it's about time God got sued. Smile

How many other countries are lining up to help the USA in case the dam gives way? Canadians are sending our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Maybe he can stick a finger in there. 

Isn't California the state that was undergoing drought conditions not too long ago?

If California were a country they would be among the richest.
Hollywood lives there and is a massive company which should earn massive amounts of tax.
38 million people with a 6% unemployment rate which is a little high but marginally ok.
they should be rolling in cash.
specially considering they do not have free health care and do not have unemployment benifits.
where is all the money going ?
they should have state of the art emergency services with world class civil defense and military.
state owned utilities should be top quality & things like emergency response processes should be among the top in the world.
The national guard should be beter than most countrys entire military.

as for lining up to help... who can help with the evacuation ? how many different agencies are there and do they all coordinate together properly and run regular practice drills ?

how often does the government run evacuation drills around damns and nuclear power stations and nuclear instilation andTsunami drills and sirens and sign posting  ?

and where is the convoy of hellicopters evacuating people ?
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