Emergency Evacuations Ordered, Oroville Dam Spillway Near Failure

they were worried about the problem yesterday and They are Just Now getting around to announcing a Bail Out order...
be careful what you wish for especially in California...

Heard alert at about 1500 hrs today telling us all is well, don't be alarmed, everything is under control. No fear. When I heard that I told my wife, he is wrong, this thing is going to bigger than he admits. Sure enough about 20 minutes later another alert was release by Army COE or BLM that THIS IS A 60 MINUTE WARNING - MANDATORY EVACUATION! I told you so. You have to be some kind of idiot to look at those pictures and know that we got problems right here in river city and it ain't pool this time. This all reminded me of an old Buffalo Springfield tune. You can change the appropriate words to fit today's news.
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's s time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid

Update: There is great concern about the water storage in California. Another dam in California is about to fail as a result of the tremendous snow pack and water content in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range from far north end of California, through the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley. Other than Oroville, the other one was either New Melones or Lake Pardee, bot flood control/hydro-electric reservoirs. The "repaired" spillway at Oroville was put back into operation but had to be closed once again as the repairs failed. At this point Oroville is sitting at 839' and is currently rising at the rate of about 1' per 24 hour period. Spring has not yet popped out in the mountains so the snow melt has yet to begin in earnest. However, when that begins, Oroville and the rest of the flood control system will be facing serious control issues. Along the Sacramento River the weirs are still open and flooded. The flood control plane that runs parallel to the river from above Veron down to the delta remain flooded. I don't know where the water is going to go with the storage nearly depleted. Today they measure the water content to be at 175% of normal. Normal is more than enough to fill all the lakes around here. So, still a scary picture.