Pending Lake Orville dam catastrophic collapse. Everyone down river mandatory evacuations.

[canyonrat]

Mods keep this up for a day or two. Everyone please follow local news for latest developments. No need to post replies unless people need places to stay. I just heard Yolo flood bypass fully open and can handle 400k cubic feet per SECOND! So the old and not maintained downtown Sacramento dykes won't be stressed to failure. Also the Feather River bypass is currently opening all bypasses, this takes a few hours, and will divert most flood waves away from Sacramento River. Evacuations are at 100,000 and new unconfirmed reports are much higher.

 

[two wheel tramp]

We have two threads on this in the kitchen sink as well with news links. Stay safe everyone.

Thread 1.

 

[canyonrat]

Just confirmed 170,000 must leave now.

 

[Map8]

Mods keep this up for a day or two. Everyone please follow local news for latest developments. No need to post replies unless people need places to stay. I just heard Yolo flood bypass fully open and can handle 400k cubic feet per SECOND! So the old and not maintained downtown Sacramento dykes won't be stressed to failure. Also the Feather River bypass is currently opening all bypasses, this takes a few hours, and will divert most flood waves away from Sacramento River. Evacuations are at 100,000 and new unconfirmed reports are much higher.

We already have threads on this in the Sink. Also, you have a lot of misinformation in your post. The Lake Oroville Dam is not pending catastrophic collapse. A smaller (but still significant) emergency overflow dam (just north of the actual Lake Oroville Dam) may have some damage. While still a very serious situation, this is very, very different from a collapse of the much larger Oroville Lake Dam - which is not threatened at this time.