So the tallest dam in the US is about to breach upstream from Sacrimento.

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Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

so what happens in a few months when all the snow melts :twisted:

# ? Feb 16, 2017 00:05

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Psycho Society: Oct 21, 2010

I legit didn't know yuba city could fit 65k people into what's basically a highway with a bunch of strip malls glued onto it. Good for them

# ? Feb 16, 2017 00:05

Nuclearmonkee: Jun 10, 2009

Platystemon posted:

Real fart‐huffing Hollywood types.

Well they are in butte county so fart huffing makes sense

# ? Feb 16, 2017 00:06

a bone to pick: Sep 14, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

Platystemon posted:

The California hate in this topic is misplaced.

There isn�t a single $2 k/ 1 bedroom apartment in the entire area that was evacuated.

The median income in Oroville (right under the dam, pop. 16,260) is $36,581.

That figure for Yuba City (larger city downstream, pop. 65,416) is $50,494.

Check out the top employers, too: Oroville | Yuba City

Real fart‐huffing Hollywood types.

Haha get hosed lieberals

# ? Feb 16, 2017 00:07

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

Dongattack posted:

I propose that if this dam never breaks, we kill the OP.

thats a pretty good idea

FOR ME TO POOP ON

# ? Feb 16, 2017 01:02

SLICK GOKU BABY: Jun 12, 2001; Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
大切な物を protect my balls

Chinatown posted:

so what happens in a few months when all the snow melts

The dam will be gone by then, no worries.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 01:03

Fog Tripper: Mar 3, 2008; by Smythe

Psycho Society posted:

tbh I want all of the pacific cities to form their own nation state. The central valley can feed all of us, and everyone else can vote for whoever they want without loving with our business

San Andreas would be more enjoyable.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 01:11

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

Psycho Society posted:

tbh I want all of the pacific cities to form their own nation state. The central valley can feed all of us, and everyone else can vote for whoever they want without loving with our business

Lol if you think the deeply-red central valley would align with the coastal cities when the poo poo hit the fan

the idea of getting to 1) slaughter their nonwhite population and 2) militia up and "liberate" san francisco would figuratively give them priapism

# ? Feb 16, 2017 01:22

Space Crabs: Mar 10, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

OMGVBFLOL posted:

Lol if you think the deeply-red central valley would align with the coastal cities when the poo poo hit the fan

the idea of getting to 1) slaughter their nonwhite population and 2) militia up and "liberate" san francisco would figuratively give them priapism

I hear quoting amazon and google's stock price is a magical spell that makes you invulnerable to bullets and hatred.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 01:26

Dongattack: Dec 20, 2006; by Cyrano4747

OMGVBFLOL posted:

thats a pretty good idea

FOR ME TO POOP ON

how

DARE

YOU

# ? Feb 16, 2017 01:37

ArgumentatumE.C.T.: Nov 5, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Who cares exactly who does the dying and who the gently caress cares how much they deserved it

I just want blood and death

# ? Feb 16, 2017 02:15

predicto: Jul 22, 2004; THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Californian here.

First, gently caress that one poster that is making us look bad. California is awesome but in spite of him.

Second, almonds aren't so bad. Yes, they use a lot of water, but they also are very valuable. You want to use water for valuable stuff.

The real crime is flooding fields in a desert to grow loving alfalfa and rice, but that is what the lazy rear end upstream growers with senior water rights do. Because gently caress you I got mine.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 02:51

naem: May 29, 2011

7 straight days of rain all the sudden?

# ? Feb 16, 2017 04:16

nigga crab pollock: Mar 26, 2010; by Lowtax

Space Crabs posted:

that guy is dumb because if you want open gun laws to dual wield AKs with drum mags or whatever I don't know why you would move to one of the states that everyone forgets exists all the time when you could move somewhere probably nicer like the east coast or something.

kansas' only purpose is to remind me that arkansas is also a state.

Arkansas is at least scenic, with parks and campgrounds, as well as bastions of liberalism sprinkled throughout and a government that doesn't rely solely on interstate traffic tickets for revenue

# ? Feb 16, 2017 04:26

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

i feel like new hampshire is probably machine-gun-dual-wield-friendly

# ? Feb 16, 2017 04:43

the great deceiver: Sep 23, 2003; why the feds worried bout me clockin on this corner/
when there's politicians out here gettin popped in arizona

death to the yuba county elites

# ? Feb 16, 2017 04:52

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

naem posted:

7 straight days of rain all the sudden?

Not all of a sudden, it's the rainy season bro.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:01

Fog Tripper: Mar 3, 2008; by Smythe

predicto posted:

Californian here.

First, gently caress that one poster that is making us look bad. California is awesome but in spite of him.

Second, almonds aren't so bad. Yes, they use a lot of water, but they also are very valuable. You want to use water for valuable stuff.

The real crime is flooding fields in a desert to grow loving alfalfa and rice, but that is what the lazy rear end upstream growers with senior water rights do. Because gently caress you I got mine.

You mean the folks upstream who the water runs to first while you folks continue with the not-in-my-backyard regarding desalinization plants while you live next to a loving ocean?

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:03

Ork of Fiction: Jul 22, 2013

naem posted:

7 straight days of rain all the sudden?

Zoinks! According to the graph on the last page, 2 inches of rain will top the emergency spillway, and that's predicted to happen by tomorrow night.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:05

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

That�s the weather in San Francisco, which is 250 km in the wrong direction.

The forecast is actually worse up there.

This is more like it.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:07

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

Fog Tripper posted:

You mean the folks upstream who the water runs to first while you folks continue with the not-in-my-backyard regarding desalinization plants while you live next to a loving ocean?

"im expected to let my lawn die so people can grow staple foods and livestock forage?!?!"

lmao gently caress socal

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:28

Eustace Tilly: Jul 2, 2006; Title text (up to 250 chars before image tag)

I hope the train museum is okay!

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:33

Duzzy Funlop: Jan 13, 2010; Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Some dudes compiled a ton of the official info and numbers to create a bunch of graphs here, sortakinda interesting, but the numbers also seem to indicate that the dam should be fine if they keep running the regular spillway at full blast and the next round of storms doesn't massively outdo the previous round, where their idea of maximizing outflow was basically :effort:

https://github.com/axibase/atsd-use-cases/blob/master/OrovilleDam/README.md

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:35

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

It�s a good thing that the �let�s try the emergency spillway for the first time in the dam�s history� experiment didn�t occur when inflows were particularly high.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:38

The_Franz: Aug 8, 2003

Polio Vax Scene posted:

my state is so good *pays 2k/mo rent for 1 br apt* unnnfffff *snorts own fart*

living in the cheap part of town i see. the average in sf is up to $3.5k for a 1 bedroom

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:40

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

The_Franz posted:

living in the cheap part of town i see. the average in sf is up to $3.5k for a 1 bedroom

Even the Tenderloin is up to $2.3 k according to a recent map in the Politically Loaded Maps thread.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:44

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

OMGVBFLOL posted:

the idea of getting to militia up and "liberate" San Francisco

Well gently caress me, you finally made moving to California sound appealing

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:54

I Was The Fury: Oct 19, 2012; Always stop to smell the flowers, just in case they're weeds

blugu64 posted:

Well gently caress me, you finally made moving to California sound appealing

Keep in mind that the place you would be moving to in order to start your militia would likely be Bakersfield. Have fun dying from the asthma your body develops within a month.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 06:18

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

Hell yeah Buck Owens owns

# ? Feb 16, 2017 14:47

Lime Tonics: Nov 7, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

Not the dam update, but a bridge update,

Nearly 56,000 bridges called structurally deficient

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/02/15/deficient-bridges/97890324/?hootPostID=a5f1d148af57d0492c340ed9bf9e6653

Stuff be collapsing sooner, rather then later.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 14:53

the great deceiver: Sep 23, 2003; why the feds worried bout me clockin on this corner/
when there's politicians out here gettin popped in arizona

sacramento liveupdate: IT'S loving RAINING WE'RE ALL GONNA loving DIE

# ? Feb 16, 2017 15:08

Psycho Society: Oct 21, 2010

lol, when it rains in LA 800 people immediately crash their cars when the first drop hits their windshield

# ? Feb 16, 2017 15:16

PathAsc: Nov 15, 2011; Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

blugu64 posted:

Hell yeah Buck Rogers owns

# ? Feb 16, 2017 15:33

Rockman Reserve: Oct 2, 2007; "Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

Polio Vax Scene posted:

Does every Californian also take everything personally and assume every insult is a direct attack like you?

Yes dude, did you read the thread? It's really funny.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 16:07

Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

the great deceiver posted:

sacramento liveupdate: IT'S loving RAINING WE'RE ALL GONNA loving DIE

good im glad of it

# ? Feb 16, 2017 18:23

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

Psycho Society posted:

lol, when it rains in LA 800 people immediately crash their cars when the first drop hits their windshield

I live near a freeway and whenever it starts to rain there's a screech/crash combo within a half of an hour.

My favorite thus far has been the long screech followed by multiple crash sounds and then a single sustained horn honk.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 19:27

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

food court bailiff posted:

Yes dude, did you read the thread? It's really funny.

Californians should learn to accept criticism like we do here in Chicago. We're a giant city in a state that mostly hates us, and we embrace it. We love our crooked disgusting politics and our lovely weather. Learn to laugh about your garbage city/state/country and just throw some booze at your problems because nothing is going to be fixed in your lifetime because you and your opinions don't matter enough to warrant change. Embrace death and darkness since it is the only conclusion you can achieve, but at least you have enough control to not meet it painfully sober.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 19:46

ArgumentatumE.C.T.: Nov 5, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

duTrieux. posted:

I live near a freeway and whenever it starts to rain there's a screech/crash combo within a half of an hour.

My favorite thus far has been the long screech followed by multiple crash sounds and then a single sustained horn honk.

You lucky son of a bitch

# ? Feb 16, 2017 19:50