Members downstream from the Oroville dam...is everybody safe?

[mathnerd]

Evacuations below the dam as officials fear "imminent" breech of the emergency spillway. Are any members in the evacuation area? Everybody safe?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/12/us/cal...ure/index.html

[Pixelated]

That is terrifying. Those poor people. Hope the dam holds.

[raw1989]

I pray for them my son wheel chair manufacture is out in cali so im not sure if any of them live in the effected areas. With that said I hope that it hold for the sake of the community, for the state eh they apparently were warned of this and took no action

[Ironclad Alibi]

That is terrifying. Those poor people. Hope the dam holds.

The dam itself is in no danger. It is only the spillway that is having problems. It has a big hole in it which could lead to a lot of erosion and release of an excessive amount of water.

[raw1989]

still BIG disaster if they cant fix it and with them expecting more rain latter this week and there afraid if that happens it will send a wall of water. I hope they get something in place other wise many people could be left with nothing

[mathnerd]

Last I looked they got the water level down to a few feet below maximum capacity, and were starting some temporary repairs of both the emergency and regular spillways in an effort to drain it to 50 feet below max. capacity in preparation for storms expected later in the week. The potential for major catastrophe is still there, but people are breathing a little easier tonight. Now the focus is on less catastrophic damage resulting from eroded sediment that's washing downstream from the water going over the emergency spillway. There's concern that debris can damage bridges and other structures as it moves downstream. It's a good thing, however, that they're even thinking about that, as even though it was just the emergency spillway that was threatening to fail, that's still a whole lot of water that would be released.

[raw1989]

Im at work and they have news sites blocked so thanks for the update... But not facebook.

[wolfie]

It seems half the weather-related stories from California have their roots in too much rain - and the other half have their roots in too little.

[dalesys]

... too much ... too little ...

Absent center Goldilocks antinomy.

[Crossbow]

The last report I had was that they had the main spillway, damage and all, running at 100,000 cubic feet per second. To put that number in some perspective, that's a little over 748,000 gallons a second, or 20% MORE than goes over Niagara Falls in the same time (avg. for the falls is just under 85,000 cu. ft. per second). And that's a controlled release.

[raw1989]

Looks like evocations were lifted glad that so far it is okay but they need to do something before they get more rain.

[Aragarthiel]

My great-grandma, who's almost 100 and the only great-great grandmother on either side of my family, had to be evacuated. She says she's staying at a friend's and isn't allowed to go home yet, they're still trying to work on a fix while waiting to see if the rain will make it any worse.

[raw1989]

now there worried about mud slides in south cali that's about all I have seen I saw they were lifted but if not hope she can go home soon.