OROVILLE DAM THREAD #8

rain on wednesday

first pics of its current state soon

youtube.com/watch?v=7AxYhivf62s
youtube.com/watch?v=NanEPQYZ5XU

Other urls found in this thread:

youtu.be/fOEQTJV_3-w
youtube.com/watch?v=gX7HSNtLuO8
youtube.com/watch?v=rl7Sm15unPQ
parks.ca.gov/?page_id=29411
youtube.com/watch?v=vc1PjR1-uf8
youtu.be/bxk62tNDteA
youtube.com/watch?v=qjh_YGrtN9k
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embankment_dam
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

keep me posted when it fails.

until then it's not my problem.

Get a life you depressive NEET

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>Whats the situation?
The dam in Oroville, California is close to failure.

>How so?
Water levels got much higher than normal so they began releasing water down the spillway, which soon formed a massive hole in it. They stopped it to assess and try to repair the damage but failed, meanwhile the emergency auxillary spillway went into action but caused major erosion and damage to the hillside. The main spillway is currently operating with a massive and growing hole that is causing huge amounts of erosion. Heavy rains for several days straight will cause the dam to overflow enough for the emergency spillway to fail, sending a fuckton of water rushing towards Sacramento.

What will be the bill total Californeeuh has to pay for oroville and sacramento?

right now at least 200 mil in repairs to the spillways

And billions to Sacramento

-To come, fuck mobile posting

Sorry to hijack, but thread already ongoing here

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If the Levee breaks and floods Sacramento the damage will be many billions.

THREAD THEME:
youtu.be/fOEQTJV_3-w

Home insurance if there are 120k homes averaging to 200k = 24 billion
Trump going to ask a lot from cali in return for that money and no hacky sac town

beautiful. however, I don't think it will make it all the way to sacramento

With no survivors!

youtube.com/watch?v=gX7HSNtLuO8

Explanation of the current situation and how we got here. With some bantz from Rogan and Jones.

Everyone here is pointing fingers at the Cali democrats. (((Everyone else))) is going to point their fingers at Trump.

How do we counter their narrative? Do we have anything solid yet to blame the thing on the democrats?

What happens when spring melt?
Isn't there snow up there?

The first order of business will be Berkeley

It's god cleaning California from antonios.

noice..

BURST ALREADY

hey losers we're re-migrating to this thread because other one hit bump limit

Kek has spoken

Ongoing past the fucking bump limit you kraut douchebiscuit

Why are canadians better at building spillways?

Did Theresa May stir your tea with her dick?

Tell me burgers, what is the worst case scenario here (if the dam breaks)?

a 500ft tall wall of water crashes down on Sacramento

It's a little bit different when you are building directly on the bedrock
than when you are building on dirt

Posting again for newbies:
Here's what happened.
>Too much water in the reservoir.
>They decide to release some of it.
>Shit maintained dam gets a hole in the spillway.
>They stop releasing water to inspect damage.
>It spills over from an emergency spillway that's meant to be used for minutes at a time at very best. Basically a symbolic thing, rather than something functional.
>Water starts eating a hole through the soft ground, oh shit, the dam might fail due to being a dam made out of earth.
>Release water through the main spillway.
>It gets fucking obliterated and starts eroding the hill.
>They can't stop releasing the water or the emergency spillway spills over.
>They're forced to use the main spillway, which keeps on slowly but surely getting fucked further and it keeps on eroding the hill under the dam.
>Fuckhuge rains and storms incoming.
>Melting snow incoming.
>Water level in the dam needs to be 50ft lower than it currently is to be able to even take the storms.
It's a massive slow yet steady happening, which has no real solution except
>Dump water and hope the whole thing doesn't crumble.

Additional damage estimate:
>best case scenario: 100-200milion damage, no dam failure, no casualties or homes lost (aka if the situation stays as it is)
>worst case scenario: dam breach, billions in damage
Worst case seams unlikely but damages will most likely increase.

The "worst case scenario thing" in the picture is the emergency spillway. A few days ago they removed trees and shaped the hillside so the water flow could be controlled.

Expert estimating damage and predicting future of the dam
youtube.com/watch?v=rl7Sm15unPQ

if the dam breaks (it wont) it would be a true disaster. at least 100 communities would be damaged as the torrent shot down the Sacramento river, testing our infrastructure all the way to deep water ports south of Sacramento.

if the emergency spillway breaks (it might) it will still be pretty entertaining and provide anti democrat bantz for years to come.

Right picture to the text

you linked to a motherfucking five hour video without any clue as to where it is actually interesting.

is this your first thread ever?

>state spends whole time shitting on trump and muh calexit

good luck with that one

> he doesn't have comfy mountains to build superior dams.
kek

Such a great song.

Some more info on current drain status
>right now they are draining at a 2:1 ratio with 100,000 cubic feet a second
>managed to drain 10feet in a day with ~40 - 35 more to go until the rain sets in
>Rain coming in 24 - 30ish hours
>Intake exceeds drain during rain by about a 2:1 ratio (estimated peak at 190k cfps)
>rain is predicted to last from one week up to several weeks
>Lake is still close to full
>cant drain much faster because it would destroy the spillway much faster
Praise kek and lets pray for heavy storms.

>picture
The emergency spillway hole that could destroy the whole dam.
If the water level gets high enough to overflow over the emergency spillway again for a long period of time we could be in for a treat.

GOOD MORNING

Hole behind the emergency spillway:

>spillsways bow to water
>in contact with rain and melt snow
>possess erosion abilities
>control oroville with a watery flow
>owns dams & emergency spillways locally
>direct descendants of the snow on northern mountains
>will provide water for first dams on jupiter
>oroville will be the first dam
>own 99% of californias drinking water on earth
>first spillways will be oroville spillways
>both spillways said to have high flow, such erosion has only existed on the earth deep in the mariana trench & japan
>ancient native scriptures tell of two spillway failures that will descend upon california and will bring an age of underwater cities and dam technology progression
>they own rocks around the world
>you likely have oroville water inside u now
>the spillways are in regular communication with the agencies, fowarding the word of oroville dam
>who do you think set up the meeting between greenpeace and the WNA? the first meeting of the two organisations since their creation and arranged the WNAs leader first trip to sahara to oroville failsafe dam in desert land?
>they learned fluent water engineering in under a day
>other dams entrusted their water to the oroville spillways
>there is no water in the dam, only in the spillway
>the spillways are about 50 years old, from the space-time reference point of the base spillway currently accepted by our society
>in reality, they are eroded beings existing in only a short span of time and space from the big overflow of california
>we dont know their ultimate plans yet
>we hope the spillways are well constructed

>the dam might fail due to being a dam made out of earth.

the only way that's happening is if it gets over topped. that and earthquakes (ground liquification) are the only feasible threats to packed earth dams as big as this. but the emergency wall will fail and lower the level by 50-75 feet before that happens.

thanks for the quick rundown

I see that emergency spillway is a joke.

pathetic

Also if you are going to use my copypasta, please correct the "billions in damage" to trillions.
(source: expert from video)

Learn to read the fucking time you massive moron. This thread was made at the same time the other one was, so I redirected there.

Fucking kill yourself.

WHEN THE DAM BREAKS IT WILL POUR RED WATER MARKING BEGINNING OF THE END FOR HERETICS.

IT SHALL BE WRITTEN, IT SHALL BE DONE

PRAISE KEK

There will likely be some minor flooding in Sacramento. There is every wet year. Those levies problematic.

Open the floodgates of your hearts /pol

>what is actually happening inside the soil

Thanks.
Would it affect farming in the area?

Noone knows exactly. Some erosion, but we don't know to which extent.

This is still less gay than HWNDU.

Stop posting the second link. That is not and never was a stream of the Oroville Dam. It's some video on loop.

It's called th Canadian Shield.

All bedrock and no fault lines. Makes dams a lot easier.

very much so.

levee breaks are of course the worst case scenario, but any damage would be substantial because north of Sacramento is the best farm land.

all of these dams were built to control the natural flooding and subsidence that had always occurred in this valley and deposited very rich soil all around it.

of course there will be some flooding, but its impossible to predict a credible worst case scenario.

real dam stream here

parks.ca.gov/?page_id=29411

brand new pepe

it's still dark AF there, when will the sun come up there?

Oy vey

this is now unironically a rare pepe

>when you find out California's 'drought' is completely fabricated and was 100% intentional to deny farmers water so they'd go bankrupt

thanks, saved

He said worst not best.

an hour more or less

Roll a pair of joints, it should be just in time to light up the second one.

5 minutes is first light

great, that's a really nice one. do you think I can save it to my collection?

What's with the jell-O?

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rare

Not listening to the RAIN SONG with a coffee mug in hand, cigar dangling between the lips wistfully thinking of loves gone wrong just like this dam.

Happy Valentine's Day, anons.

youtube.com/watch?v=vc1PjR1-uf8

forget jello.. use these instead.. they turn into sponges that absorb water

How about a dutch engineer pepe lecturing an american pepe politician

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its an hour and 20 minutes to sunrise there

someone give this guy a rundown, i think he's new to the jelloville incident.

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nice, currently in class, it's 14:40 here, now got a lesson where I can't use laptop, in 40 minutes i'll get back

I don't get it.

>Californians get drown by gigantic sponge elephants

>not a false flag attack by Jeffersonian's to destroy our water reclamation infrastructure thereby making us physically unable to send that water to Los Angeles.

youtu.be/bxk62tNDteA

> has to build one big ass ugly dam, because he doesn't have comfy alps to build lots of small beautiful dams, where nobody cares if one fails.
> can't get >60% of his energy with dams
Muricans rekt.

i read the weather app wrong.

>6:56 is first light

Tatari

were there any known casualties? and what was the deal with those high profile inmates they kept referring to?

Reminder we won't get the first shots of the day until 12:00 (noon) in order to give the authorities time to come up with a narrative that prevents mass panic.

Don't worry.

Californian Intellectuals are working hard to save the dam. First question they are tackling is what gender it has.

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>and what was the deal with those high profile inmates they kept referring to?
Those were the ~500 Hollywood pedos that were recently locked up. They're going to 'accidentally' lose track of them during transit. This whole dam thing is a diversion.

I wonder when the damn breaks will that prevent mass panic

>there are meme dams

I watched for months waiting for them to get rain.

whos the man?

youtube.com/watch?v=qjh_YGrtN9k

guys...
what if the dam collapse is a plot by the DNC to cover up illegals voting on election night?

Looking at all the pictures and videos do Americans just built on top of dirt or something? Seems more foundations went into my garage extension than the dam.

Why don't one of you san fran fags take a drone there and get some footage?

Cheap once Trump fucks the economy with both rampant inflation and his BUY MURICAN bullshit works programme falls flat and the fed subsidise the repairs so it looks his rust belt inbred dumbfucks have some legimate work other than taping family members

could this be trumps new Orleans?
her gets blamed for not helping fast enough.

>The Hoover Dam is one of the most phenomenal structures in modern history. This 1244 feet long, 660 feet thick, and 726 feet high concrete behemoth holds back so much water that it deformed the earth's crust and caused 600 small earthquakes in the decade after its construction.

>TWIN 200,000 cfs spillways

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embankment_dam

>getting into a forced evacuation area
how?