Sorry: evacuate order extended to Yuba City: GET OUT RIGHT NOW

[Recursion]

I don't mean to be alarmist, but: GET THE FUCK OUT RIGHT NOW.

Find a slope and get up it, whatever you have to do. Worry about where you're going to end up later.

Get out of that valley, and get up one of its slopes. Now.

[Cha]

1. KICK

[LaydeeBug]

2. KICK

[sheshe2]

3. Kick

[nolabear]

4. Kick again. Sounds terrifying.

[Leghorn21]

5. KICK - just googled Yuba City, and can't copy/paste, but

http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=6e647046d446b4ba&hl=en&gl=US&source=web

GO NOW

[herding cats]

7. Traffic is completely backed up in Yuba City and Marysville.

I just saw an update about 20 minutes ago and it's pretty slow getting out.

[Leghorn21]

9. Just - so bad. And especially for Yuba and environs, that area's so much further away than poor

Oroville - oh -

Just found a twitter thingie - sometimes helpful for getting latest updates (and for rumor-spreading sometimes, dammit).

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=oroville&prev_cursor=TWEET-829749590756700160-830983612220788738-BD1UO2FFu9QAAAAAAAAETAAAAAcAAAASAAAAAACBAMAAABgAAAABAIAAAAAAAABAEAAAAAAAAAAEAAAIAAIAABAAAAACCgACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAQAAAIAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABECAABQAAAAEAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACACAAAAAAAAQCAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAgAAAAAAAAAAAA

[herding cats]

16. Oh, thanks for that twitter feed!

It's looking good for them.

[CountAllVotes]

21. Holy hell .....

[Kittycow]

6. Yikes

[Connie_Corleone]

8. KICK

[CountAllVotes]

10. Picture here:

& recommend!

[Recursion]

12. That. Thank you

This is not a joke. Get to higher ground. Now.

[CountAllVotes]

13. Have friends living in the immediate vicinity

Sounds like a living hell on earth from the news I've been receiving for the past FEW weeks!!



Get to high ground ASAP!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. That's the best picture I've seen.

I've been trying since last night to grasp the situation.

What I'm not clear on is why does any water have to enter spill way. My very limited knowledge I always thought of the spillway as something that regulates the lake height. Is the lake overfilled?

Can it be stopped up untill repairs are made?

[CountAllVotes]

20. The dam has a hole in the bottom of it

They cannot drain it.

Next weeks come Wednesday they are looking at getting another 6-7" of rain through that week in this same region, just what they do not need.

If it overflows, it is headed straight towards Sacramento which is like a giant pit. People have been out in little row boats in areas already just from the rain alone last week.

They are telling people to go north to get away from the dam. It is extremely dangerous.

It seems 130,000 have evacuated as of a couple of hours ago.

If they can manage to drain a portion off to repair it, that is their only option at the moment best I know. How they go about doing this is beyond my comprehension!

[stopwastingmymoney]

31. It's not the dam that has a hole in it

It's the spillway that has a giant sink hole about halfway down

The dam is not in danger of failing, that would be horrendous.

The thing is that even though we have a few more dry days now, water is still flowing into the reservoir from upstream. They're going to have to release a lot more water before they can repair the spillway.

[CountAllVotes]

35. Yep, a giant sink hole

and no, it cannot be fixed with all of that water!

Damn mess it what you have down there.

I live in the northern part of the state and am fortunately no where near this chaos.

I hope that Gov. Brown get the help he needs!

[Staph]

22. I'm not from the area, and I'm not a civil engineer.

But Thursday night on the Rachel Maddow Show, she said that the lake was 98% full. With the regular spillway unusable, they have got to lower the level of the lake, or endanger the stability of the dam itself. That would create an even more massive flood than the present problem.

[Agschmid]

24. They are using the regular spillway, even though its damaged.

They don't have a choice.

[greytdemocrat]

11. Play it safe

Leave.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. Yeah. Last night weren't they saying evacuation was highly unlikely?

I don't do anything without a plan b. It has to be a sure thing. When in doubt, get the fuck out.

[GP6971]

14. Kick

[jimlup]

15. Wow!

[roamer65]

17. Kick.

[WePurrsevere]

23. Kick for attention. nt

[Agschmid]

25. Press conference...

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-live-updates-oroville-dam-watch-the-latest-official-update-on-the-1486954758-htmlstory.html

[Docreed2003]

26. K&R...stay safe folks!!

[BadgerMom]

27. KICK!

[brooklynite]

28. SACRAMENTO BEE reporting that water levels have dropped below the emergency spillway...

...and the risk of collapse has lessened.

[unitedwethrive]

29. Yes, that's what the CBS station in Sacramento is saying as well. There will be a press conference

around 10pm Pacific Time.

[Xolodno]

30. Part of me wonders...

...what if this is the new "normal' due to global warming. A number of years of virtually no rainfall...then it all comes back at once. This dam and other were designed on rather consistent weather patterns with the capacity to absorb a couple of standard deviations. This is obvious above the 95th percentile....but is that the new expectation?

[Retrograde]

32. Maybe, maybe not

For as long as records have been kept, California seems to have years of above average rainfall and years of below average: what we don't seem to have is an "average" year. And every so often we get an extreme year in one direction: this looks like it will be much, much wetter than we've had since the late 1990s. Because we're coming off of an extended drought cycle it appears a lot of people have forgotten what a wet year looks like.

I'd rather have wet winters than dry ones, but how the overall climate pattern is going to develop is still up in the air.

[NutmegYankee]

34. It's been out of whack in the East for several years.

Periods of drought followed by torrents of rain.

[StrictlyRockers]

33. I'm worried.

https://www.wunderground.com/us/ca/oroville/

[Are_grits_groceries]

36. KICK

Move now!