CFP” California Legislators and Gov. Jerry Brown think their job is to stay in power, and that bills to further their leftist agenda are the vehicles. The Oroville Dam spillway breakage is proof of this.
While Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats have prioritized illegal aliens, refugee, inmate sex change operations, building houses for the homeless, transgender bathrooms, climate change awareness, and hiring Eric Holder to undermine the Trump administration, the Oroville Dam was crumbling. And they knew it. The San Jose Mercury News reported the California Department of Water Resources and 27 water agencies ignored serious warnings 12 years ago because they did not want to incur the extra costs. So they said the repairs were unnecessary.
Thanks to record winter storms, the Oroville Dam (north of Sacramento) is nearly full. However, water levels were nearing the top of the dam by last Friday. State authorities and engineers on Thursday began releasing water from the dam after noticing that large chunks of concrete were missing from a spillway.
“On Saturday, water levels rose so high that an emergency spillway was used for the first time. Officials initially believed the measure worked,” the Los Angeles Times reported. “But on Sunday afternoon, as more water from record storms flowed into Lake Oroville, officials detected a hole in the emergency spillway.”
Officials said they feared the damaged spillway could unleash a 30-foot wall of water on the town of Oroville. more
This is kind of like the TMI disaster. The public won’t know how close disaster came for years yet, if it doesn’t fail next week.
TMI killed no one. If Oroville fails, there will be scores dead.
I think Thirdtwin is right: Trump needs to get on top of this publicly. Yesterday.
This is one of the many reasons that I left California. Politicians would tax the crap out of it’s citizens, then piss away the money on bullshit programs while ignoring the infrastructure. CA is a lost cause. It will never recover as long as the people who live there refuse to rid themselves of the mobile mounds of human excrement running the place.
I saw the best tweet yesterday from @MissLizzyNJ:
“The 9th Circuit Court rules there is no evidence the #OrovilleDam has killed anyone.
Cancels evacuation order, citing no proof of danger.”
California is lost……I have 3+ decades of running a business here and let me tell you it is LOST. I am close to retirement and can not wait to take my money out of this state and sadly, leave my employees to fend in this horrible state. It is already Mexifornia and with the permanent voting block, there is nothing left for the implosion when the makers check out only leaving the takers who will roll into the streets of Beverly Hills (Just like Berkley) and demand their hand outs. It will become a 3rd world country posing as a state.
GOD TO CA:
“YOU WANTED RAIN??? I GAVE YOU RAIN!!! YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE DROUGHT!!! YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE RAIN!!! I’M DONE WITH THE PERVERSE STATE OF CALIFORNIA!!! STANDBY!!!!”
Phuck California
They know how to build roads in California though. Take a ride on the 405. You’ll see 20 lanes of cars in both directions going no where. Time to build more lanes, overpasses, bypasses, spaghetti intersections, HOV lanes. There are areas south of LA on the 405 that have been under construction literally for the past 18 years. All this construction and it’s still the most congested roadway. Then they beautify it all with colorful rocks, lights, landscape and use the road as a mechanism to call out anyone who dares water the grass while hiding their cell towers in fake palm trees. Then rip it all up again because another million people showed up last year. California highways are one of the biggest ecological disasters ever to show up in the west, all at the expense of all the other infrastructure crumbling. Way to go, dumbasses.
There are undoubtedly millions in CA who are praying for the dam to fail so the lesser creek chub may thrive.
Too bad that dam isn’t big enough to flush the entire state.
….and the leftist kooks that voted from them couldn’t care less.
The federal government needs to starve the state of California. Some people should go to jail if this dam fails starting with the politicians who decided to ignore and not pay for the correction of the damn problems noted 12 years ago.
I read on Twitter that Trump is being blamed for this.
No way that anything man-made could be expected to hold back all the liberal tears!
The counties which will be affected by the breakage of this damn voted overwhelming for Trump. Now does it make sense?
Billy nailed it!
@flip February 14, 2017 at 10:34 am
> Trump needs to get on top of this publicly.
No. He needs to be on top of it privately. And, privately, eight different ways. If, and only if, the dam breaks, he has to be ready to (figuratively) walk right up onstage while Governor Brown is doing his very first propaganda-op blaming Bush, I mean Trump, for this horror, smack him in the mouth (figuratively?) and explain “Now. Here is how we’re going to fix this. And California is going to pay for it,”
Every person who had a hand in delaying repairs gets to surf the spillway
Actually, I’d bet here is a kayaker or two out there who would love to drop in and run the spillway
The residents of Oroville have pictures of chunks missing out of the main spillway from 2013. It’s not like this was a secret.
http://www.abc10.com/news/local/verify/verify-was-the-oroville-spillway-damaged-in-2013/407976121
The terminator was governor 12 years ago. There’s plenty of blame to throw around.
ten bucks says there are already “hard-hitting news articles” blaming this on Global Warming and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
I would care more if it wasn’t Cali.
Think about this. The dam breaks and destroys the culture, the lives and businesses of the good, hard-working conservative folks in the area, who voted for Trump. Once all the independent and self-reliant folks are wiped out literally and figuratively, the State of Caleee-fornya can bring in zillions of Federal dollars and create public-trough Lebensraun for “immigrants” from Mexico and other third-world sh!tholes. Then, the area becomes on the Leftist stain map.
Just so you know, the Feds cannot come into California unless requested. Jerry Brown does not have the cranial capacity to do that without declaring the area an emergency.
Lacking brain power is bot considered sufficient grounds for anything, just look at the Dumbi’s in the Congress.
Just checking…Did anyone check Oroville’s water supply for lead? (another notch in the liberal belt of destroyed cities). THE LIST KEEPS GETTING LONGER!!!
You’re right Cracker P. I’ve driven the 405 and it’s crazy out there. The money they spend on unnecessary landscaping and disguising cell phone towers is insane.