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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
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Night time failure is bad , everyone downstream better get to high ground.
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Feb 13, 2017 03:01
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They found a hole forming on the left side of the emergency spillway, sounds bad.
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Feb 13, 2017 03:24
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Psycho Society posted:It still has a shitload of pressure pushing on it from the inside, so there's probably still a chance, but it's not being eroded from the top anymore. 3 days....  they can fix it in 3 days right?
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As it stands now, the estimates to fix it are between 100~300 million dollars, for new spillways and whatnot. If it gets worse, who knows.
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Feb 13, 2017 07:15
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Dam update, The SacBee writes, water is flowing out of Lake Oroville's main spillway fast enough to cause lake levels to drop by up to 30 feet before the next storm Wednesday night. Officials hope that will be enough. Lake Oroville can fill fast during a big storm. During storms from Monday of last week through Friday, lake levels increased by 50 feet. The main factor in how fast the lake drains continues to be the condition of the main spillway. Officials said Monday morning that the main spillway had not further deteriorated despite huge outflows cascading over it Sunday afternoon and evening. The more water drained from the lake by the next storm, the less chance that the lake again will fill to the point that activates the emergency spillway. Erosion on the emergency spillway Sunday night created the need to evacuate nearly 200,000 people. With 100,000 cubic feet per second of water flowing out of the lake, lake levels were dropping about one foot every 3 hours on Monday morning, state figures show. That translates to a drop of about 120,000 acre-feet every 24 hours. At current pace, the lake will fall to about 400,000 acre-feet below its emergency spillway by Thursday morning. To get the lake back to the levels normally mandated for flood control, it would need to fall by about 700,000 acre-feet. Officials have more modest goals. They said Sunday night that they hope to drain the lake by 20 to 30 feet by the next storm. At current pace, they will hit that target. Better hope the Wednesday storm and rest of the week, isn't so rainy as the forecast expects.
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Feb 13, 2017 21:42
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kierrie posted:wouled this drat dam loving fail already Wednesday or Thursday this week is the next crisis point.
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Feb 14, 2017 02:47
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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.
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Feb 16, 2017 14:53
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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.
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magnitude 1.8 quake near oroville , everything fine. but... 
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