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Well as an ethereal spirit, he'd know wouldn't he?
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ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:There aren't any nuclear plants near the danger zone of this flood, are there? Gettin' Fukushima flashbacks up in here. Lol you're talking about California here, nuclear power is still viewed as things Monty Burns operates to kill children for profit
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EugeneJ posted:This guy's not concerned This guy is an idiot because the dam isn't on the American River, or one of its tributaries.
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There's a Kings game going on right now in Sacramento https://twitter.com/VMXOXO981/status/830967950018424833
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EugeneJ posted:Their plan is to drop bags full of rocks into the hole with helicopters American_Civil_Infrastructure_Maintenance.txt
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A cool thing that most ppl don't know about big dams is that all that water pressure forcing downward where it don't usually go (because it used to be a river) finds its way into cracks and fissures and starts causing regular seismic activity in the 3-4 range, which is a lot like what you see from fracking.
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Platystemon posted:This guy is an idiot because the dam isn't on the American River, or one of its tributaries. he's not wrong about the evacuations tho 
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b-minus1 posted:Learn to swim yeah, that'll save your rear end in a flood jesus christ
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:he's not wrong about the evacuations tho I hope Butt valley will be ok.
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so whats a spillway? is the dam going to break. How hosed are the people?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:he's not wrong about the evacuations tho He’s right that there isn’t imminent concern of the dam failing. See that lake east‐northeast of Sacramento? The American River flows from that lake and joins the Sacramento River at the city of Sacramento.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:he's not wrong about the evacuations tho Oh Jeez - the catchment for Oroville Dam is not small. It might manage to mitigate the current overflow without the auxiliary spillway failing, but there's still a hell of a lot of water on it's way in over the next week. Serak fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Feb 13, 2017 |
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What the gently caress kind of units of measurement are acre feet? Is that volume? Why is Imperial so hard 
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Hurry, Californians! Protest that dam!
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Spaced God posted:What the gently caress kind of units of measurement are acre feet? Is that volume? Why is Imperial so hard Enough water to cover an acre of land with a foot of water. It... Sorts of makes sense in agriculture I guess?
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Spaced God posted:What the gently caress kind of units of measurement are acre feet? Is that volume? Why is Imperial so hard I need these numbers in football fields and olympic swimming pools, stat!
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Dapper_Swindler posted:so whats a spillway? is the dam going to break. How hosed are the people? It's not part of the dam proper, it's part of the reservoir water level management. The emergency/auxiliary spillway is basically a last resort failsafe to let water out of reaervoir without overtopping the actual dam
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Five and a half million Olympic swimming pools.
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FrozenVent posted:Enough water to cover an acre of land with a foot of water. It... Sorts of makes sense in agriculture I guess? I think we keep the acre foot in use because it's a good estimate of the average annual water consumption of 1 person.
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The emergency spill way might fail. The dam itself is not in danger of failing.
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LOL at you big city kids who can't visualize an acre who's laughing now? Clearly I am because of the "LOL"
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Zahgaegun posted:LOL at you big city kids who can't visualize an acre who's laughing now? An acre is the distance between two telephone poles, squared.
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This dude's chill https://twitter.com/workmanblue/status/830970891907444737
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awaiting president trump's speech re: all the very sad dead people
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basement jihadist posted:awaiting president trump's speech re: all the very sad dead people He's gonna build a bigger dam, and he's gonna get California to pay for it.
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Please. The drat certainly won't catastrophically fail as soon as there's enough daylight to catch it all on film and then proceed to completely devastate the area down river. I offer a 100% guarantee that this will definitely not happen. May God strike me down if this drat ruptures and spews watery death onto hapless Californians.
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Antifa just showed up and are throwing bricks and molotovs at the dam to protest trump
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basement jihadist posted:awaiting president trump's speech re: all the very sad dead people https://twitter.com/JoshuaBariova/status/830971827413454853
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like a cigarette should posted:Antifa just showed up and are throwing bricks and molotovs at the dam to protest trump this doesn't even make sense but I'm laughing anyway
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Oh wow - on the news feed they said people are threatening each other at the gas pumps
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Mercrom posted:so is the mountain gonna break or is this one of those disasters where a week from now they have to rescue a grandma who stubbornly refuses to evacuate her flooded house the dam is not going to break, water has started going over the emergency spillway which is there to prevent the dam from breaking in an "oh poo poo there's too much water in the lake and we can't do anything about it" scenario unfortunately the emergency spillway is eroding faster than anticipated and releasing more water than expected so there is basically a dam break even if it's not that bad everything is working as designed here except the situation the emergency spillway is designed for is "we need to buy a couple hours to tell people to get out of town while the disaster happens"
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:The emergency spill way might fail. The dam itself is not in danger of failing. I think that's a matter of semantics at that point. If the emergency spillway fails then the lake will just drain out that entire hillside and the dam itself will effectively be useless as the water will have a different outlet. It kinda doesn't matter if technically the portion labelled "Dam" hasn't breached at that point.
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The dam isn't about to break, the spillway is about to break and take the mountain side w/ it, pleas do not talk trash on the dam.
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extra stout posted:this already feels like it's going to be underwhelming yeah people are gonna start fighting over politics and the thread will go right into the... Oh - you mean the dam and stuff. Sure, yeah that'll be that too.
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I could not possibly feel any smugger in my prediction that the dam won't fail and unleash a torrent that will shake America to its very core.
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