Serious Tremendous Ponding destruction of Rotten USA, Great Wall too late!

Lots of Rotten Old and unmaintained grandpa era infrastructure falling apart in Ang Moh Trump's USA. Including many dams, many many bridges, many tunnels, countless roads, Power Grids, buildings……

I had seen myself. Ang Moh Trump need Flood Walls and building them is already too late. The Americans are FUCKED!

Now this is just one example:


http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN15S04W


Crumbling California dam spillway prompts urgent evacuations
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65,000 cfs of water flow through a damaged spillway on the Oroville Dam in Oroville, California, U.S., February 10, 2017.
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By Dan Whitcomb
Residents below the tallest dam in the United States, near Oroville in Northern California, were urgently ordered to evacuate on Sunday after a spillway appeared for a time to be in danger of imminent collapse.

The abrupt evacuation orders came as authorities said that an auxiliary spillway on the Lake Oroville Dam could give way at any time, unleashing floodwaters onto rural communities along the Feather River. "Immediate evacuation from the low levels of Oroville and areas downstream is ordered," the Butte County sheriff said in a statement posted on social media. "This is NOT A Drill."

The California Department of Water Resources said on Twitter at about 4:30 p.m. PST (0030 GMT Monday) that the spillway next to the dam was "predicted to fail within the next hour."

Several hours later the situation appeared less dire as the spillway remained standing and the Water Resources department said crews using helicopters would drop rocks to fill a gouge in the spillway. Authorities were also releasing water to lower the lake's level after weeks of heavy rains in the drought-plagued state.

Butte County Sheriff Korey Honea said at an evening press conference that he was told by experts earlier on Sunday that the hole that was being created in the spillway could compromise the structure. Rather than risk thousands of lives, the sheriff said, a decision was made to order the evacuations.

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But he said he was told later that the erosion was not progressing as rapidly as earlier feared and that the amount of water flowing over the spillway had dropped quickly.

Still, evacuation orders remained in place. The Yuba County Office of Emergency Services urged evacuees to travel only to the east, south or west. "DO NOT TRAVEL NORTH TOWARD OROVILLE," the department said on Twitter.

Evacuation centers were set up at a fairgrounds in Chico, California, about 20 miles northwest of Oroville, but roads leading out of the area were jammed as residents sought to drive out of the flood zone.

It is not clear how many people were affected by the evacuation order. More than 160,000 people live in the evacuation area comprising three counties, according to U.S. Census data.

The Oroville dam is nearly full after a wave of winter storms brought relief to the state after some four years of devastating drought. Water levels were less than 7 feet (2 meters) from the top of the dam on Friday.

State authorities and engineers on Thursday began carefully releasing water from the Lake Oroville Dam some 65 miles (105 km) north of Sacramento after noticing that large chunks of concrete were missing from a spillway.

California Governor Jerry Brown asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday to declare a major disaster due to flooding and mudslides brought on by the storms.

The earthfill dam is just upstream and east of Oroville, a city of more than 16,000 people.

At 770 feet (230 meters) high, the structure, built between 1962 and 1968, is the tallest dam in the United States, besting the famed Hoover Dam by more than 40 feet (12 meters).

(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Editing by Peter Cooney and Mary Milliken)

This is what happens when a state does not support Trump.

Leongsam said:

This is what happens when a state does not support Trump.

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California better Calexit ASAP. Otherwise sinking w Ang Moh Trump then worst.

Rotten Grandpa Infrastructure are all over USA, their Pioneer Generation built and then other generations just NEGLECTED and Took For Granted. All are ticking time bombs. I was there and saw these all. This bomb is going off, many more!

Ang4MohTrump said:

California better Calexit ASAP. Otherwise sinking w Ang Moh Trump then worst.

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Trump is right. The US infrastructure is crumbling from years of neglect by past Presidents. Thank goodness Trump has been elected to put things right.

Leongsam said:

Trump is right. The US infrastructure is crumbling from years of neglect by past Presidents. Thank goodness Trump has been elected to put things right.

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Too late! Too many rotten craps! Too little money. And Bastardized rich like Gay Phone Inc aren't paying tax! They spend money rather to fight and fix Ang Moh Trump!

USA is doomed!

Ang Moh Trump should imprisoned the whole Gay Phone Inc Board of Directors for Tax Evasion.

oroville is becoming horrorville, thanks to decades of neglect by useless governors and presidents. finally, trump is going to put post-war infrastructure back in order and america will be great again.

When estate drug money from drug trafficking to built America this is the result of money come easy.

Then no more drug money but hv to tax their own people for money the infrastructure costs become unbearable.
Revenge of God is at hand.

http://www.orovillemr.com/general-news/20170212/180000-evacuate-because-of-emergency-spillway-danger

180,000 evacuate because of emergency spillway danger

By Andre Byik, [email protected]

Posted: 02/12/17, 5:09 PM PST | Updated: 2 hrs ago
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Aerial photo taken Sunday morning shows water running over the emergency spillway, at left, and down the hill into the diversion pool. The main spillway flows at center and the dam is at right. Officials fear the emergency spillway could fail and have ordered evacuations.
Aerial photo taken Sunday morning shows water running over the emergency spillway, at left, and down the hill into the diversion pool. The main spillway flows at center and the dam is at right. Officials fear the emergency spillway could fail and have ordered evacuations. Photo by Gonzalo (Peewee) Curiel

Oroville >> An estimated 180,000 people were ordered to evacuate along the Feather River on Sunday afternoon after erosion raised fears the emergency spillway at Oroville Dam could fail.

The state Department of Water Resources said about 3 p.m. Sunday a hole developed in the emergency spillway as water cascaded down the dirt ravine. The erosion appeared to be spreading upward toward the structure.

If the emergency spillway structure — a concrete lip on the north side of the dam — were undercut by the enlarging chasm, it could fail, and the water behind that barrier would come down the hill uncontrollably into the diversion pool and down the Feather River, setting the stage for the possibility of massive flooding into Oroville and communities farther south, officials said.

Subsequently, the flow through the main spillway was increased to 100,000 cubic-feet per second in an effort to lower the water level in the lake more rapidly, even though it would likely further erode the spillway that started crumbling Tuesday.

The situation was stabilized about 8:30 p.m. when water stopped flowing over the emergency spillway, according to Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea, as the lake level dropped below its top. The lake dropped a foot in three hours between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.

As of Sunday night the concrete lip at the top of the emergency spillway had not sustained structural damage, officials said.

But the possibility of a “catastrophic failure” led Sheriff Kory Honea to order the evacuation of Oroville and other low-lying areas downstream at 4 p.m. Yuba and Sutter counties followed suit.

“Time was very limited,” Honea said. “I couldn’t risk waiting to see what would happen.”

Gridlock was reported on highways out of Oroville, Marysville and Yuba City. Cars waited in long lines at gas stations. Several highways eventually had to be closed.

Oroville residents were told to evacuate north to Chico. The Silver Dollar Fairgrounds welcomed hundreds of evacuees and other organizations, like the Chico Elks Lodge and Neighborhood Church, also opened their doors. Evacuation centers were set up as far away as Orland.

Honea said water officials were forced to take aggressive measures to avoid a failure at the emergency spillway. Water releases down the damaged spillway were increased from 55,000 cfs to 100,000 cfs to bring the lake level down further.

Honea said communications with the governor’s office indicated officials would provide whatever resources needed to deal with the situation at the dam.

The decision to evacuate tens of thousands of people from Oroville and communities south of the city was an “extraordinarily difficult” one to make, Honea said. But it was done with the public’s safety in mind.
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“Most of the time those decisions are not as monumental as this one,” he said, adding that it was perhaps the most significant decision he has made as sheriff — and may ever make.

“I could not risk the lives of thousands of people,” he said.

The Butte County Jail and Juvenile Hall were among facilities evacuated.

Butte County Superintendent of Schools Tim Taylor has called for closure of all the schools Monday except those in the Chico and Paradise district. Butte College is closed Monday, but classes will take place take place at Chico State University.

All Butte County offices in Oroville are closed Monday.

There was no word on when people would be let back into the area.

Chris Orrock, a spokesman for DWR, said people would not be let back into the area until officials are confident that the area is safe.

Orrock said water officials had not contemplated such a failure of the emergency spillway. He added that “some incredibly bright people” at the department developed a plan to mitigate the flood risk as the problem presented itself.

Orrock said Sunday night that flows into the reservoir were “much lower” than the outflow, but officials were also planning for wet weather to arrive Wednesday.

Officials had previously expected to lose the lower portion of the damaged, conventional spillway, as it has continued to be used to lower the lake level.

Orrock said that could very well have been happening Sunday as officials released more water down the damaged spillway to avoid a failure at the emergency spillway. Officials weren’t able to assess any further damage Sunday for safety reasons.

The spokesman said the Feather River can hold upward of 150,000 cfs.

City Editor Steve Schoonover and reporter Laura Urseny contributed to this story.

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California’s Oroville Dam threatens floods, forcing 188,000 to evacuate under emergency order

Samantha Schmidt and Derek Hawkins, Washington Post | February 13, 2017 8:23 AM ET
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About 188,000 residents near Oroville, Calif., were ordered to evacuate Sunday after a hole in an emergency spillway in the Oroville Dam threatened to flood the surrounding area.

Thousands clogged highways leading out of the area headed south, north and west and arteries major and minor remained jammed as midnight approached on the West Coast.

Even as they fled, however, the flow of water over the spillway halted late in the evening, stabilizing the crisis. But officials warned the damaged infrastructure could create further dangers as storms approach in the week ahead and it remained unclear when residents might be able to return to their homes.
Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press

Lake Oroville is one of California’s largest man-made lakes with 3.5 million acre-feet of water and 167 miles of shoreline, and the 770-foot-tall Oroville Dam is the nation’s tallest, about 44 feet higher than Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. The lake is the linchpin of California’s government-run water delivery system, sending water from the Sierra Nevada for agriculture in the Central Valley and for residents and businesses in Southern California.

After a record-setting drought, California has been battered by potentially record-setting rain, with the Northern California region getting 228 per cent more than its normal rainfall for this time of year. The average annual rainfall of about 50 inches had already been overtaken with 68 inches in 2017 alone.
Josh F.W. Cook / Office of Assemblyman Brian Dahle via Associated Press

There was never any danger of the dam collapsing. The problem was with the spillways, which are safety valves designed to release water in a controlled fashion, preventing water from topping over the wall of the colossal dam that retains Lake Oroville.

Earlier this week, unexpected erosion crumbled through the main spillway, sending chunks of concrete flying and creating a large hole. Then sheets of water began spilling over the dam’s emergency spillway for the first time in its 50-year history.

Water from rain and snow rapidly flowed into the lake, causing it to rise to perilous levels, and sending water down the wooded hillside’s emergency spillway, carrying murky debris into the Feather River below.
Randy Pench / The Sacramento Bee via Associated Press

“Once we have damage to a structure like that, it’s catastrophic,” Bill Croyle, acting director of the state’s Department of Water Resources, said in a 10 p.m. news conference Sunday. “We determined we could not fix the hole. You don’t just throw a little bit of rock in it.”

Anticipating a possible catastrophe for the Lake Oroville area, located about 75 miles north of Sacramento and about 25 miles southeast of Chico, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office ordered evacuations, adding in a news release that this was “NOT a drill.”

But as the reservoir’s water levels lowered, the flows over the emergency spillway ceased.
Randy Pench / The Sacramento Bee via Associated Press

California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown issued an emergency order to boost the state’s response to the evacuation efforts and spillway crisis, which Brown called “complex and rapidly changing.” Despite the minimized threats, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said in a news conference at about 10 p.m. local time Sunday that he would not be lifting the mandatory evacuation order until water resources officials had a better grasp on the anticipated risks.

The evacuation took residents by surprise.

April Torlone, 18, was at work at a Dollar General in Live Oak, Calif., Sunday evening when she received a flood emergency alert on her phone. She hurried home, she said, where she had about 10 minutes to gather some clothes and her late father’s ashes.
William Croyle / California Department of Water Resources via AP

Torlone drove with her mother and sister to her grandmother’s house in Sacramento. The roughly 40-mile trip took six hours, she said. Gas stations were packed and stores were running out of food. Along the way, they saw more than 30 people camped out in their cars on the side of the road, many with trunks full of belongings, she said.

“I just hope everyone is safe and finds a place to stay, and that no one’s homes are damaged,” Torlone told The Washington Post. “It’s honestly so sad.”

Facilities for sheltering people, churches, schools, and seven Sikh temples opened their doors in a striking display of common purpose and community. People offered to open their homes to strangers via Twitter messages. Hotels and motels out-of-harm’s-way filled up quickly, creating little communities of the suddenly displaced.\
Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press

The dam itself remained structurally sound through the evening, the state Department of Water Resources (DWR) said.
In a news conference Sunday night, Honea said helicopters would be deployed to drop bags of rocks into the crevice and prevent any further erosion.

Officials doubled the flow of water out of the nearly mile-long primary spillway to 100,000 cubic feet per second, helping to reduce the lake’s levels. The normal flow is about half as much, but increased flows are common at this time of year, during peak rain season, officials said.
Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press

Croyle said that the lake would need to lower almost 50 feet to reach levels at which the system would normally operate. Croyle said that personnel were unable to access the eroded emergency spillway Sunday to do repair work. Officials aimed to continue to discharge as much water as possible ahead of upcoming storms, without adding too much pressure to the already damaged infrastructure.

“Our goal is to be able to use that infrastructure throughout this wet season,” Croyle said. Forecasts indicate that dry weather will dominate through Tuesday, but a series of Pacific storms are expected to arrive across the region Wednesday into Thursday, bringing up to 4 inches of rain to parts of the Central Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
Honea called the evacuation order a “critical and difficult decision” and said he recognized it would cause significant dislocations and traffic jams, which it did. Residents of Oroville, a town of 16,000 people, were ordered to head north toward Chico, while other nearby residents drove south toward Sacramento.
Randy Pench / The Sacramento Bee via Associated Press

“I recognize how tough this situation is on people,” Honea said in the 10 p.m. news conference. “I recognize that we’ve had to displace a lot of people.”

The California National Guard will provide eight helicopters to assist with emergency spillway repair, Adjutant General David S. Baldwin said in a news conference. All 23,000 soldiers and airmen statewide received an alert to be “ready to go if needed,” Baldwin said. The last time such an alert was sent out to the entire California National Guard was the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which erupted after a trial jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department of the use of excessive force in the videotaped arrest and beating of Rodney King.

Officials said 250 law enforcement personnel were being deployed to patrol the evacuated areas.
Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press

Travelers reported traffic at a standstill on some routes, especially on Highway 99 between Oroville and Chico.

Nicholas Mertz, a front desk supervisor at Oxford Suites Chico, told The Post that when he started his shift at 3 p.m., Sunday, the hotel’s 184 rooms were at 54 per cent occupancy, but within an hour or two, the rooms reached full capacity. What began as a normal night quickly turned into “hectic craziness, everything all at once,” Mertz said. The hotel’s five phone lines were ringing non-stop, and hundreds of guests came pouring in.

“It’s never happened that fast,” Mertz said. Larger families of five to eight people packed into rooms, without having to pay the usual fees for additional guests, Mertz said, because “in this scenario, it’s whatever you can do.”
Paul Kitagaki Jr. / The Sacramento Bee via Associated Press

Many guests expressed confusion and frustration, while others spoke of their fears: What would happen to the pets they left behind? Would there be looting in the evacuated neighborhoods? Would their homes still be standing when they returned?

“Not only are you just a front desk person you’re kind of like a therapist as well,” Mertz said.

Kyle Dobson, 41, said he was visiting the dam Sunday afternoon from Yuba City, Calif., and noticed that the lake was higher than he had ever seen it. He said he got a call later in the day that Oroville was being evacuated. By the time he got home, Yuba City had also been ordered to evacuate.

Dobson said he and his wife packed about a week’s worth of clothes for themselves and their four young children, and moved pictures and other belongings to the second floor of their two-story home. For now, they are staying put, but if the situation gets worse, they will drive to Sutter, Calif., to stay with family, Dobson said.

“I’ll stay up probably all night, listen to the police scanner and watch the reports come in,” he said. “The river levels – that’s what you’ve got to watch out for.”
Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press

Adriana Weidman of Marysville, Calif., said she heard about the evacuation around 5 p.m. Fearing that nearby rivers would overflow, she rushed to pack as much as she could, then got into the car with her husband and two children, she said. By 10 p.m., the family was still sitting in gridlocked traffic on the way to Colfax, Calif., about 45 miles east.
“It’s scary,” Weidman told The Post. “I’m terrified I’m not going to have a home to come home to.”

Out of an “abundance of caution,” inmates were in the process of being evacuated from the Butte County Jail Sunday night, the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook.

“We needed to get people moving quickly in order to protect the public and save lives if the worst case scenario did come to fruition,” Honea said.
Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Images

The damaged primary spillway caused water flowing downstream to become muddy and brown with debris earlier this week, threatening the lives of millions of baby Chinook salmon in the Feather River Hatchery below. In a rescue operation, officials with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife successfully moved about 5 million Chinook salmon to a nearby annex, the department said on Facebook.

The other 3 million baby salmon will remain at the main hatchery, where staff and engineers have rigged a system of pumps, pipes and generators and a sediment pond in the hopes of filtering the water enough to support the fish.

Ironically, the state’s five years of drought caused Lake Oroville’s water levels to plunge to a low of 33 per cent of capacity, according to the Los Angeles Times. The lake became a poster child for the drought. In a dramatic shift, Northern California witnessed an extraordinarily rainy winter this year that caused waters to rise to their highest levels in decades.

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Absolutely NO ONE in this world can beat the Brave PRC PLA & ?? on dare devil rescue of dams and fight floods. USA can never learn. Many of them have died fighting and death would not stop them! PRC got millions willing to die for national causes. More will come forward after some had fallen.

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The nation and people are very proud of their brave soldiers wounded and killed fighting to save people and their home. They have great honor and benefits. Those families of killed soldiers are known as ??, certified with official ???which entire them for lifetime benefits including housing, medical & priority treatments. That's why soldiers are willing to die to earn such benefits for their loved families.

USA full of similar Dam Burst Crisis:

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