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Irradiation
Sep 14, 2005

I understand your frustration.

monsterzero posted:

That's because only Oroville is big enough to have recognition. It's hard to clown on Thermalito when everyone thinks that's what Mexicans drink coffee out of.

That's fair but nearby places like Chico or Yuba City never got poo poo on like Oroville. :shrug:

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unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Fluffy Bunnies posted:

Uncle got his poo poo done, now I'm getting his inheritance :lol: sent that to aunt, she's mad as gently caress and threatening his wellbeing.

I love california. Who knows who he got to do it.

Cool now buy me plat / a cool new smilie for this thread

monsterzero
May 12, 2002
-=TOPGUN=-
Boys who love airplanes :respek: Boys who love boys
Lipstick Apathy

Irradiation posted:

That's fair but nearby places like Chico or Yuba City never got poo poo on like Oroville. :shrug:

Chico is cool and Yuba City is just a place you have to stop for traffic lights on the highway. I don't think anyone actually lives there.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
should have called it Tuba City

Psycho Society
Oct 21, 2010
Yuba city isn't a town. It's not. Sorry

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Wow I found a new favorite channel.

So is the dam down yet or what?

SeXReX
Jan 9, 2009

I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet


:emptyquote:
They should just turn off the cameras for like 6 hours and then the majority of that flow will be stolen to use for weed farm irrigation

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
the dam is going to collapse and Trump is gonna say some "lol get hosed california that's what you get" poo poo about it and then CA is gonna riot like mad and it'll be lol as gently caress

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug
one of largest economies in us, can't afford to maintain their damns

A Horse Named Mandy
Feb 9, 2007

blugu64 posted:

Are you saying we should have taken the oil?



I once tried to joke that the space race was just an expensive middle finger toward the USSR, and was immediately schooled on the technological and scientific advancements that resulted from the nominal (in retrospect) investment. Meanwhile, we probably spent more on basketball courts in the middle east than we have on dams in the past 2 decades, and all we have to show for it is an international terrorist recruitment network.

To lift a reference from the China thread:

"Alex Kerr posted:

The response by the bureaucrats who run Japan was to build monuments, and this they are doing on a scale that is bankrupting the nation. It was the only thing they knew to do. Hence the new title of this book: Dogs and Demons. The emperor of China asked his court painter, "What's easy to paint and what's hard to paint?" and the answer was "Dogs are difficult, demons are easy." Quiet, low-key things like dogs in our immediate surroundings are hard to get right, but anybody can draw a demon. Basic solutions to modern problems are difficult, but pouring money into expensive showpieces is easy. Rather than bury electric wires, officials pay to have telephone poles clad in bronze; the city of Kyoto spent millions on building a Cultural Zone in its new railway station, the design of which denies Kyoto's culture in every way; rather than lower Internet connection fees, the government subsidizes "experimental Internet cities," and so forth.

Psycho Society
Oct 21, 2010

ArbitraryC posted:

one of largest economies in us, can't afford to maintain their damns

San Francisco by itself produces more GDP than most nations.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

ArbitraryC posted:

one of largest economies in us, can't afford to maintain their damns

we probably would manage just fine if we didn't have to send so much of our tax money to gently caress states like Kansas

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
Dam(n people born between 1985 to today)

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Lao Tzu lived in a hut and he ate straw

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Who needs maintenance on a dam? Bad democrat construction. Weak and won't last!

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Fluffy Bunnies posted:

Uncle got his poo poo done, now I'm getting his inheritance :lol: sent that to aunt, she's mad as gently caress and threatening his wellbeing.

I love california. Who knows who he got to do it.

:ca:

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Ein cooler Typ posted:

Lao Tzu lived in a hut and he ate straw

gently caress off fat middle aged boomer shithead from the Dustin comic strip

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Psycho Society posted:

San Francisco by itself produces more GDP than most nations.

That is shameful for most nations

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Ein cooler Typ posted:

Lao Tzu lived in a hut and he ate straw

so what, even if true

that's not really a dig against the guy if you know what he's about

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Psycho Society posted:

San Francisco by itself produces more GDP than most nations.

Again, yet somehow,

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

guys I got drunk and passed out

did the drat break yet

JIZZ DENOUEMENT
Oct 3, 2012

STRIKE!
Infrastructure isn't sexy??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpzvaqypav8

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
So what's the latest? Is this thing gonna blow or is it hopefully receeding?

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Your Taint posted:

So what's the latest? Is this thing gonna blow or is it hopefully receeding?

It could fail at any time, but the risk isn’t as high as it was Sunday.

The danger won’t pass till the rain stops and the lake level drops.

kierrie
Jun 7, 2010
wouled this drat dam loving fail already

Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

Fluffy Bunnies posted:

Uncle got his poo poo done, now I'm getting his inheritance :lol: sent that to aunt, she's mad as gently caress and threatening his wellbeing.

I love california. Who knows who he got to do it.

this whole story rules rofl

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

kierrie posted:

wouled this drat dam loving fail already

Wednesday or Thursday this week is the next crisis point.

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.
Out, spotty dam!

MageMage
Feb 11, 2007

I SUCK AND LOVE TO YELL PERFORMATIVE HOT TAKES AND NONSENSE LIES WHEN I GET WORKED UP. SOMETIMES AUTOBANNED IS BETTER. MAYBE ONE DAY WHEN I STORM OFF I'LL ACTUALLY STOP SHITTING UP THE SITE FOR REAL

Colonel Cancer posted:

Thanks for ruining America's infrastructure, Obama!

It wasnt Obama, it was Butte County who used the 7bn that was supposed to repair the dam was used on stupid poo poo like Round-a-bouts.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
I hope no one dies

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

MageMage posted:

It wasnt Obama, it was Butte County who used the 7bn that was supposed to repair the dam was used on stupid poo poo like Round-a-bouts.

well you don't see any roundabouts failing

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008

Lime Tonics posted:

Wednesday or Thursday this week is the next crisis point.

yeah it's like 35mm - 55mm of rain over the next three days

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

Burt Sexual posted:

I hope no one dies

i hope you do

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Nefarious 2.0 posted:

i hope you do

I'm safe, but that's rude and hurtful. Mods

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

MageMage posted:

It wasnt Obama, it was Butte County who used the 7bn that was supposed to repair the dam was used on stupid poo poo like Round-a-bouts.

Nah man clearly it's LIBERALS spending all the money on illegal immigrants, mosques, homosexual agenda and weed smoking good for nothing hippies instead of infrastructure. Just read twitter!

LOLbertsons
Apr 8, 2009

Mozi posted:

should have called it Tuba City

Most of the Spanish speaking guys that worked for my concrete company called it Chupa City. It got to the point that even the other foremen were writing it that way on time sheets and maintenance logs. I had to constantly cross it out and write in Yuba so the controller wouldn't be pissed. LOL.

my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler

Lime Tonics posted:

I'm sure the 1 or 2 dam inspectors are overworked, also

Currently, there are about 4,400 "unsafe" dams in the U.S. There are unsafe dams in almost every state. (A majority of states and federal agencies define an "unsafe" dam as one that has been found to have hydraulic or structural deficiencies that leave it more susceptible to failure.)

http://www.damsafety.org/news/?p=c0fdade4-ab98-4679-be22-e3d7f14e124f

dam livestream

http://www.kcra.com/nowcast

Huh, my parents own two dams and one is named after my late grandpa :3

Mental Hospitality
Jan 5, 2011

I can't wait for the upcoming made-for-tv movie, God! Dam It!

Sunday at 8PM on ABC Family

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
I hope any goons in the affected area have already evacuated and are somewhere safe.

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Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiFGNyJR9v0

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