|
there was that bridge in the midwest that fell over a few years ago too idk i think it'll take some pretty dramatic white death before anyone's spurred to action
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2017 14:13
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 15, 2024 03:40 |
|
|
the great deceiver posted:i personally hope that we dont fix our infrastructure and fail to learn anything at all Fingers crossed
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2017 20:18
|
|
|
OMGVBFLOL posted:there was that bridge in the midwest that fell over a few years ago too I doubt even dramatic white death would make much difference at this point. Everyone is ready with the "you reap what you sow" for being democrat/republican/libertarian/gay/etc. As long as people are more concerned with spitefully assigning blame than fixing the problems, nothing will get better. Literally better to die in a preventable disaster that you can smugly blame on the other team than to take any of the blame for letting things get that bad in the first place.
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 02:37
|
|
|
OMGVBFLOL posted:there was that bridge in the midwest that fell over a few years ago too I know like four people who drove over that bridge the day it collapsed lol. Thirteen people died, over a hundred wounded. Of course there's been little/no infrastructure improvement there in the meantime.
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 02:50
|
|
|
food court bailiff posted:I know like four people who drove over that bridge the day it collapsed lol. Thirteen people died, over a hundred wounded. How do you think they would have voted
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 02:56
|
|
|
Whichever way upsets you most, sorry.
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 02:59
|
|
|
Toadvine posted:How do you think they would have voted It doesn't matter which way the people died voted. It's still the fault of the [INSERT A RANDOM POLITICAL PARTY HERE]
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 04:37
|
|
|
Well I guess this is cool that the people working on all this have their poo poo together well enough that they averted a disaster, and now they've got things under control. It's good to see government workers that are good at their job. I was really jonesing for California's Katrina, though. 
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 08:08
|
|
|
ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:I was really jonesing for California's Katrina, though. That’ll be the 2020 quake.
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 08:23
|
|
|
Platystemon posted:That’ll be the 2020 quake. That would be nothing like Katrina. If a serious earthquake hits LA and harms a celebrity it will be portrayed worse than the holocaust with a new national holiday and nonstop 24/7 news coverage for the next five years. Also they've cut output from 100,000 to 55,000 so maybe we will get to see that obliterated spillway next week.
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 08:39
|
|
|
Space Crabs posted:That would be nothing like Katrina. You’re not wrong. Think of how long the topic of  Hurricane Sandy stayed around.
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 08:45
|
|
|
The lake has been consistently draining since last week, so I doubt it. I think they'll more on top of it than they were before.
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 08:46
|
|
|
food court bailiff posted:I know like four people who drove over that bridge the day it collapsed lol. Thirteen people died, over a hundred wounded. Of course there's been little/no infrastructure improvement there in the meantime. My girlfriend's sister was on the school bus full of kids you see in all the pictures of it.
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 08:50
|
|
|
the great deceiver posted:chico is a town i really wish i could like but it's just so gross. oroville sucks and paradise was definitely misnamed Paradise rules, you shut your whoremouth
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 08:51
|
|
|
MageMage posted:Paradise rules, you shut your whoremouth paradise rules if you like the sight of beautiful, ancient redwood trees towering over trailers that have been extended with fiberboard and meth labs, yes
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 10:26
|
|
|
MageMage posted:Paradise rules, you shut your whoremouth please do not use slurs here on the something awful dot com forums
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 11:36
|
|
|
Space Crabs posted:That would be nothing like Katrina. it would be like katrina in the sense that it would be a huge regional disaster affecting millions of people across an entire region, but would be remembered solely for the affect it had on the narrow slice of one city rich people like to visit
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 18:52
|
|
|
the free market will sort this out
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2017 19:31
|
|
|
well there is another big storm heading in tomorrow and all residents of the sacramento valley who live near rivers, creeks etc are being warned to prepare for potential evacuations at a moments notice. i live a block from the sacramento river levee so i am currently boxing up my most precious valuables like my anime blu-ray collection
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 03:47
|
|
|
do you have to notify your parole officer before you leave or is there an exemption for mandatory evacuations?
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 03:59
|
|
Associate Christ
|
the great deceiver posted:well there is another big storm heading in tomorrow and all residents of the sacramento valley who live near rivers, creeks etc are being warned to prepare for potential evacuations at a moments notice. i live a block from the sacramento river levee so i am currently boxing up my most precious valuables like my anime blu-ray collection Forecasters with the National Weather Service offered a stark warning Sunday for just about everyone living in the soggy, soaked Central Valley. “Pretty much anybody needs to be prepared for the possibility that they may have to evacuate quickly,” said Sacramento meteorologist Brooke Bingaman. Though most of the Valley had avoided further flooding by Sunday evening, the worst may be yet to come Monday and Tuesday, Bingaman said. http://www.sacbee.com/news/weather/article133714379.html Dam update, still pouring concrete and ROCK BAGS.
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 04:03
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgtyOfwrj8 You can really see how much work they have done, how much lower the lake is and how ruined the main spillway is!
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 07:50
|
|
|
I moved from Chico to Arkansas. On purpose. It's an improvement
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 08:17
|
|
|
other people posted:do you have to notify your parole officer before you leave or is there an exemption for mandatory evacuations? Ankle monitors are a handy way of locating and identifying corpses! 
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 08:47
|
|
|
Dread Head posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgtyOfwrj8 Yeah I didn't believe them at the press conference when they said the main spillway had eroded as much as it was going to and wouldn't suffer further damage from turning the water up. It's pretty much destroyed now and they managed to clog up the river which has kept the dam's power plant from working. They did manage to drop the lake by 50 feet though so it should be fine unless those storms are ridiculous. I really doubt that thin layer of concrete they sprayed everywhere will actually help anything.
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 08:56
|
|
|
Space Crabs posted:Yeah I didn't believe them at the press conference when they said the main spillway had eroded as much as it was going to and wouldn't suffer further damage from turning the water up. Don't worry, concrete on less than stable and soaked earth is totally going to stand up to the amounts of water that would hit if it got high again. Rain isn't a problem either! The best part is somewhere an environmental engineer is crying because they didn't get to put down billions of dollars in adding 8 different kinds of rocks too. 
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 11:38
|
|
|
Space Crabs posted:Yeah I didn't believe them at the press conference when they said the main spillway had eroded as much as it was going to and wouldn't suffer further damage from turning the water up. Well that doesn't look like the spillway itself suffered further damage. The hill next to it just fell apart to the point that the first 50,000 cfs go that way. Maybe the hill will keep falling apart all the way to the dam itself and the waters of chaos will spill forth and the gloRY OF SATAN WILL BE KNOWN TO ALL! HAIL SATAN! HAIL SATAN! But yeah the actual concrete of the main spillway doesn't seem to have changed, as far as I can see.
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 12:07
|
|
|
PathAsc posted:Don't worry, concrete on less than stable and soaked earth is totally going to stand up to the amounts of water that would hit if it got high again. Rain isn't a problem either! The best part is somewhere an environmental engineer is crying because they didn't get to put down billions of dollars in adding 8 different kinds of rocks too. ~^*fartz*^~
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 12:23
|
|
|
OMGVBFLOL posted:~^*fartz*^~ You poo poo my pants 
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 18:15
|
|
|
How y'all doing out west?
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 18:23
|
|
|
drat. Is it true that parts of I-5 are flooded out due to the same storms?
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 18:50
|
|
|
I think I-5 is somewhat flooded intermittently, but not to the extent that traffic can't pass through.
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 19:04
|
|
|
It would be funny if they made the flooding a lot worse by blasting millions of cubic feet of water down the river into a floodplain right before historic storms.
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 19:06
|
|
|
Javid posted:drat. is that today? holy hell
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 19:10
|
|
|
Space Crabs posted:It would be funny if they made the flooding a lot worse by blasting millions of cubic feet of water down the river into a floodplain right before historic storms. I get the impression it's a choice of do it now in a controlled manner or it's ALL puking out when the dam decides to give it up.
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 19:13
|
|
|
This is going to be SO goddamn expensive.
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 19:33
|
|
|
Javid posted:I get the impression it's a choice of do it now in a controlled manner or it's ALL puking out when the dam decides to give it up. That second option sounds epic.
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 19:41
|
|
|
other people posted:do you have to notify your parole officer before you leave or is there an exemption for mandatory evacuations? im on informal probation now so i dont have to notify my PO about poo poo and lol if they really think anyone would actually notify them in case of an evacuation
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 21:01
|
|
|
some parts of 5 had been slightly flooding here in sac. when you drive i5 thru sacramento the freeway hugs the sacramento river levee for like 10 miles so lol if that breaks
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 21:04
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 15, 2024 03:40 |
|
|
I look forward to Trump's extensive plans for federal disaster relief.
|
|
#
?
Feb 20, 2017 21:07
|
|
