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originally posted by: sean
The spillway has never been used and was built in 1960. Wonderful. That design is a failure just looking at it. Flat concrete poured in thin flat tile sections that water can erode in and quickly rip out. That is exactly what happen. Concrete on video flying through the air LOL. Those are retainer walls? ROFL There is thicker concrete walls in a prison than those lol. It appears the walls are not buttressed to well either if at all. All I can say is when this calamity of crappy craftsmanship completely falls apart I hope all you got a row boat.
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
Another update on FNC - Some homes are being looted, they said, that have been evacuated. Wow, some people!
Edited to add - news conference being aired now, from local authorities.
originally posted by: Riffrafter
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
Another update on FNC - Some homes are being looted, they said, that have been evacuated. Wow, some people!
Edited to add - news conference being aired now, from local authorities.
Unbelievable.
200K people evacuated and there are looters in their homes?
If the Governor declares a state of emergency and sends the national guard in, I believe looters can be legally shot. I'm not certain, but I do know that the rules/laws are different when an official state of emergency exists.
If I was a homeowner, I'd get my family out, and then I'd go back with a .12 Gauge shotgun and .40 cal pistol with extended clip and protect my home.
And I'm not even a gun guy...but I do own both as they were given to me when my father passed away.
Recently a photograph surfaced showing crews working on a crack in the same vicinity of the spillway in 2013. The State Division of Dam Safety reported that the last inspection was performed in 2015 and was reportedly "visual" and at "some distance."
The US has known about problems with this dam for 12 years. It did nothing to fix it. Now, entire towns will be wiped out if this dam breaks. Eight days of rain are starting this week. The US has unlimited money to start nonsensical wars, buy trillion dollar military equipment, spend many billions in foreign aid, give all kinds of freebies to illegal aliens, etc. It's not a budget issue either as the US had no problem running up 20 trillion in debt. Any kind of spending is apparently OK unless it benefits ordinary Americans and then it's too expensive.
Department engineer and spokesman Kevin Dossey told the Sacramento Bee the emergency spillway was rated to handle 250,000 cubic feet per second, but it began to show weakness Sunday after flows peaked at 12,600 cubic feet per second.
It wasn’t long after water began flowing over the [emergency spillway, aka,] weir, however, that the emergency spillway revealed a major weakness: An area of earth downhill from the weir had begun to erode and was creeping uphill, closer to the concrete wall.
If enough earth washed away, the hole would undermine the wall and breach it, releasing a 30-foot-wall of water on the valley below.
In other words, millions of gallons of uncontrolled water would begin to pour down the Feather River, the largest tributary to California’s largest river, the Sacramento, overwhelming towns along its banks.
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Fortunately, within about 90 minutes after state water officials decided to dramatically accelerate the draining of water through Lake Oroville’s damaged main spillway, the erosion on the emergency spillway slowed down.
By late Sunday night, the lake’s water level had fallen below the weir and was no longer flowing over the emergency spillway. The erosion had stopped.
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
Seems the rating isn't what they thought it was!! Makes me wonder f the dam is, either.
originally posted by: Aazadan
a reply to: Riffrafter
Insurance exists for a reason. If everything is fine, and you get looted you should have homeowners/renters insurance to cover it. If it gets flooded, your stuff (and your home) is going to be ruined anyways. In which case you're probably doomed because no one is going to give affordable flood insurance to someone on a floodplain.
originally posted by: MysticPearl
Insurance is one option, although it doesn't bring back sentimental items, boobytraps are another option and what I'd go with.
I'd rig my house with boobytraps and if someone tried to loot, I'd return to a corpse hanging upside down.