Rain and Rubble Snowmelt and thunder Let califags huddle And engineers blunder Let the waters rage And the barriers burst Hail Kek's change For this land will be cursed. Wash away the wicked kill them all A new world will emerge Cali must fall Blow the dam Praise the flood Scour the land With rock and mud. May the cuck dam crumble As Kek demands As it falls it will rumble Claiming all the innocent lands Doubt not our almighty Kek Lest flood and fire He shall send For at first to salvage there must be a wreck The vile must be broken for the good to mend Flods of beaners you are allright with that now, here come's the water YOU HAVE TO GO BACK Degenerates cry out and are fleeing in throes But no matter how loud they shout Kek's answer is: "No". The thunder of water beats through you're ear Far in the distance, the frog-king appear "I have told you, time and time again" "keep up with this bullshit, and this is THE END" For no matter how many lies the False Ones procure On computer, typewriter, spoken or by pen Have faith that the deplorables will find a way to ensure That Pol, is right once again.
For the people who still don't understand what the emergency spillway, this image is a good demystifier The emergency spillway is just a lip lower than the rest of the dam, if the water reaches this height again it will overflow
David Perez
For the other user, I broke down the math to explain why the dam is fucked due to the absolute massive size of the catchment area which drains into that dam/lake:
catchment area is 10,200km^2. surface area of lake is 62km^2. The catchment area is thus 165 times larger than the actual lake.
For sake of argument and something easy we will use 1" of rain (2.5cm).
10,200km^2 @ 2.5cm per hour = 2.55x10^8 m^3 Plus the lake area: 62km^2 @ 2.5cm per hour = 1.55x10^6 m^3 Total (provided rates are constant) = 2.565x10^8 m^3
Dam is currently something like 16" (40.64cm) lower than it was a few days ago.
Dam is releasing water at 100,000cfm (378,500clm)
catchment plus lake @ 2.5cm of rain per hour is accumulating 2.565x10^11 clm
Happening fags, read the metabunk thread here. The current possibility of a happening has gone down substantially. Thread started on Wednesday before any happening, page 17 and 18 are from today. metabunk.org/oroville-dam-spillway-failure.t8381/
Main spillway hasn't eroded any since the 11th. So 100kcfs is maintainable. They have pictures of water inflow rates, and inflow spikes over 100kcfs have only spiked for several hours during worst storm period.
He walks up to you in the hills and slaps your dams ass, what do you do?
Nolan Brooks
The dam is fine though, I don't get the point of this thread? They released enough water for the coming rains, and they stopped the live stream, everything went back to normal.
Wyatt Baker
underrated digits
Joseph Peterson
Just saw this forecast today; the dam and Sacramento are FUCKED
Joshua Gonzalez
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Ryan Green
So they can handle approximately 1 inch of rain per day?
Xavier Nelson
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Kevin Thompson
The shots from when the emergency spillway was being used on feb 12th are pretty funny, it's like clusterfuck poetry
Jordan Phillips
30 miles worth of floodplain between sacto and yuba, user. there will be no wall, but the red counties will drown. this is all brown's plan coming to fruition
Elijah Morales
The dam is fine, they already released enough water for any coming rains. It's over. Move on.
Colton Flores
The rain hasn't hit yet
5 inches of rain = 65ft water rise in the dam
They wanted 50ft of drop before the rain, they only have 18ft, 100k cu ft is only dropping 3"/hr
Leo White
Holy shit, our poem lives on, cuul!
Oliver James
>main spilled hasn't eroded any since the 11th
wrong it's eroded up and it's eroding from below where you can't see.
livefeeds aren't actually live, they aren't showing you the true extent of the erosion. it's only going to get worse.
Benjamin Wright
SHADILAY
Colton Young
No, they released enough water, the coming rains have not come, and if theye come enough water has been released.
Nolan Gutierrez
it's less than 0.5 an hour actually
Lucas Parker
PRAISE AQUA-SAMA
Hudson Ward
pretty much this
Isaiah Edwards
Dam will fail before 10pm PST Sunday
Aaron Myers
they said 50 feet was needed before the rain
they are at 30
Adrian Allen
sierra snow is a multiplier. as the storms sweep across the mountains, springs will come early and add to the water falling in the low country
Kayden Howard
That's a fairly old pic, you can tell because the spillway hasn't had low enough flow for you to see the hole in the concrete in quite a few days this is what it looks like right now, the rocks in the middle really look like prime river rafting potential
Connor Martin
No, they haven't. Read the post, do the math.
-18ft +65ft =?
Jason Campbell
Did they say needed or that was their goal? It's possible the goal is greater than the actual safe amount needed, allowing for larger margins of safety.
Brody Scott
You can't really talk about inflows, outflows, and the reservoir elevation without knowing the elevation-storage curve of the reservior because the lake isn't shaped like a cylinder. So here's an elevation storage curve I made using data that goes from about 50 ft below the crest of the emergency spillway all the way to the top.
Jack Murphy
947 feet of water
Andrew Cook
Looks like they can drop 10 feet per day w/ spillway, so they can handle about .7 inches of rain per day.
Jayden Price
Fjorgyn is angry, she will raise hell on California, her son Thor will help her. Praise the gods!
Isaac Sullivan
No, they said their goal was50 feet before the rains, which they may actually meet still, but in no way does that goal mean it's the limit, essentially the spill already happened.
Xavier Watson
Check pic. Overflow (emergency spill way usage) was on the 11th. Look at the inches from the 9th. Check the inflow increase, and how long they took to decide to crank the outflow up to 100k. Now check the lake height on the left. Have fun.
Nathaniel Young
>Oroville dam >Oroville >Oro >Literally means gold en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam#Construction >An average of 120 train cars ran along the line each hour, transporting fill that was mainly excavated from enormous piles of hydraulic mining debris that were washed down by the Feather River after the California Gold Rush.[15]
So it's almost exactly a linear relationship, meaning treating it as a cylinder is fine. Am I wrong in my interpretation?
Ryan Foster
It means concern in Swedish. Kek.
Eli Rogers
Good thing you're not an engineer.
Sebastian Rodriguez
Maybe they evaced because of the gold boulders falling out of the hill with the hydraulic erosion
Maybe that was the plan all along, there's color in them thar hills
Matthew Russell
Gold panning time.
Zachary Reyes
Emergency spillway height is 901 feet. see pic
Levi Phillips
yep, they are only at -28 feet from peek. fucked.
Justin Gutierrez
forgot i already posted pic
Luis Martinez
A little geography lesson for you non-Californians. The Feather River drains directly into the Sacramento River, which meets the American River in Downtown Sacramento. The State Capitol of California is in downtown, less than a mile from the Sacramento River. Both of these river are already swelling their banks and six-10inches of rain in the mountains will push them both even higher. Add the metric fuckton of water in Lake Oroville and you've got yourself a good chance of flooding in Sac. Imagine the image of the Capitol of California flooded by their own incompetence. This is what Kek is up to.
Austin Cook
It's a straight line when you're talking about a small range. The curve would be relevant if you were dropping like 200 feet.
Also, the rain water inflow estimates are just guesses. They assume it's all rain, no snow, no absorption as groundwater, no snow melting from rain, and other factors.
Dumping pictures from metabunk thread and analysis that occurred there, happening is absolutely a possibility, don't get me wrong, but it's going down. Maybe some rapefugees will be taken by winter-chan for us instead.
>Engineers want to keep lake levels well below 901 feet, the depth at which water begins to flow over the emergency spillway. DWR normally keeps lake levels at 850 feet this time of year to mitigate flood risk.
