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Is that you Dave Hodges? Sauce for claims?
Jim Stone claims it is rated at 270K CFS yet you say less than 10K. Hmmmm…
THE question should be, why did they let it fill up with un-melted snow pack waiting to melt? Hoping they will have to dredge (so they can make off with more gold)?
"Heads up Oroville - I still think nothing is going to happen to the dam, but there is an anomaly worth mentioning
They should be letting water out and they are not. There is a major storm system on the way and all the up stream reservoirs are full. There is no place left to hold the water. Some are speculating they are holding the water and praying because the new spillway will blow. However I think they are holding it either to test the emergency spillway or because they know damn well the farmers got screwed over during a false "drought", and they probably STILL have to meet water "commitments" for the "delta smelt" which is an invasive species that does not belong there anyway, but whatever when communists who hate America run the show . . . .
"So what I think is really going on here is they are loading up the dams to record never before seen levels, and are saying SCREW FLOOD CONTROL, WE NEED THE WATER TO FIGHT THE COMMIES and they are therefore going to let everything fill to the max and let the commies in Sacramento HAVE IT if flood control really was needed. How does 500, 000 CFS through that nice souped up spillway sound? It is only rated to 270, 000 but I'd bet it could handle half a mil. The way they are pushing things right now, circumstance may require it, they are pushing it THAT BAD. They are not supposed to have every dam in the system totally topped off BEFORE the snowpack is gone, and with 5-7 inches of rain on the way, the show could be spectacular. Let's hope the dam handles it, some are speculating it will not. If they did open the spillway beyond it's rated 270, 000 they'd swamp Sacramento and everything else downstream BAD."
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