Officials order evacuation of residents near California dam

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prove-all

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Officials order evacuation of residents near California dam
Officials order evacuation of residents near California dam

Thousands forced to flee homes near California's Oroville Dam as spillway predicted to fail
Thousands forced to flee homes near California's Oroville Dam - NY Daily News

Authorities ordered thousands of residents to abandon their homes south of the
nation’s tallest dam in northern California due to a predicted spillway collapse.

Butte County Sheriff's Office cited "severe erosion" following days of rain along
the Oroville Dam's auxiliary spillway for the anticipated failure.



from drought to overabundance of rain,
I heard the extra preasure in dams can cause earth quakes also
 
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p_rehbein

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Watched some of this on the News.............hope those folks are not harmed and their towns destroyed.......
 

notuptome

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How do we know this is not just a ruse to get the undocumented residents out of this area of Calif.?

For the cause of Christ
Roger
 

p_rehbein

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Watching the water flood across the spillway kinda lets us know it ain't just a ruse.......
 
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I have a friend who lived here for many years, right below the dam. She still has a No Ca cell phone, and she got an evacuation call, she has been in contact with friends and family, and things vary. Low lying areas are bad. People have been seen kayaking in vineyards. The evacuation route roads are a gridlock, a nightmare.

Sadly, the rain has started again and it might get worse!
 
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I have a friend who lived here for many years, right below the dam. She still has a No Ca cell phone, and she got an evacuation call, she has been in contact with friends and family, and things vary. Low lying areas are bad. People have been seen kayaking in vineyards. The evacuation route roads are a gridlock, a nightmare.

Sadly, the rain has started again and it might get worse!
It is as if God is emphasising the end with these nature extremes.

Praying for the people in these desperate times.
 

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The Oroville dam is a seriously dangerous situation.. They are using the damaged spillway trying to get as much water out of the dam as possible because they don't want to use the emergency spillway again.. Because the Emergency Spillway came very close to collapse when they used it.. They are trying to fill in the erosion holes in the emergency spillway with bags of rocks before the next rain system comes and a lot of rain falls in the catchment area..

But if the rain fall is enough to force them to use the emergency spillway again then i doubt any repairs will be enough to prevent a failure in the emergency spillway.. That could end up causing massive flooding and a lot of damage to more then a few major towns like Sacramento ..
 

p_rehbein

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OR.............round them up and have THEM go fix the leak in the spillways...........Hmm..........


That's federal money, not state money, and we need to stop the influx of illegals.
 

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It's probably Obama's fault

This is A odd statement, you seem to allways protray Obama did good
for America, and seem you stickup for him on most things.


Barack Obama ran his campaign on the word “change”
saying he would “fundamentally transform America.”

America’s educational institutions are inherently racist they said. The solution was
to coerce and force schools, via laws and regulations, to cut back discipline and order.

Violence in the Halls, Disorder in the Malls
https://www.city-journal.org/html/violence-halls-disorder-malls-14920.html

The Obama administration’s destructive efforts to undermine school discipline.
The result? A sweeping cultural change among America’s youth—one that
endorses the rejection of rules and authority and encourages a spirit of rebellion.

By the time he left office,it was obvious Obama had achieved his goal.

His replacement, of course, disagrees with this. Donald Trump’s campaign was fueled
by promises to undo President Obama’s handiwork and “make America great again.”

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The Obama White House took the same approach to America’s justice and legal
systems and its law enforcement agencies, all of which, according to the president
and his team, suffer from the same institutional racism. President Obama believed
most of the blame for America’s swelling jail populations was caused, not by Americans
breaking the law, but by the law itself as well as the judges and law enforcement officers.

He accused some police of being so racist that they murder a man simply because he is
black. By the end of his second term, a bounty of new laws, policies and standards had
been rolled out and a new “restorative” culture created. A culture that valued “fixing”
the “problems” over actually upholding law and order.

The result? America in January 2017 was more prone to riotous protests and marches,
more prone to race riots like those in Ferguson and Baltimore, and filled with more
Americans questioning, disrespecting, resisting and attacking America and its institutions.

Why should Americans respect law and government when their president, despite occupying
an office created for the purpose of enforcing the law, personally undermined the rule of law?
On some issues, like immigration, President Obama openly refused to enforce laws
that his office is specifically required to enforce.
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As president, Mr. Obama endorsed multiple issues that fundamentally transformed the
culture, economy and security of the United States. He entrenched the entitlement culture,
spending hundreds of billions giving away phones, health care, money and more.

He hooked greater numbers of people on welfare benefits. He passed a gargantuan
health-care law. He became the biggest spender in American history, accumulating
twice as much debt as his predecessor and nearly doubling the national debt to
almost $20 trillion. Can that be paid back—with interest—with a few signatures?

The Obama White House empowered special interest organizations and movements,
many of which are hostile to traditional American customs, practices and values.

Groups like Black Lives Matter and movements such as the lgbt crusade.
Under President Obama, America experienced a profound cultural, moral and social
transformation in the areas of race, sexuality and family. Even if he wanted to,
President Trump couldn’t reverse the changes in these areas.

Why? Because many Americans—especially those in Hollywood, the mainstream
media and higher education—don’t want to reverse the changes.

The most fundamental transformation President Obama accomplished can be
seen in each of his actions: lawlessness



The truth is, the Obama years appealed to an ugly, destructive and powerful force:
our lawless human nature. Ultimately, the only way to truly roll back the Obama
years is to transform the hearts and attitudes of the American people. And that is
an impossible feat—even for Donald J. Trump - only Christs return can do that.

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climate change ? The sins of the people and the leaders they elect,
are the reason for our weather events because [GOD is in control]

-for blessings


14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season,
the first rain and the latter rain,that thou mayest gather in thy
corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

-for punishment


7And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were
yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one
city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was
rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.


-for the day of battle and war

22Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast
thou seen the treasures of the hail, 23Which I have reserved
against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

3The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not
at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind
and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
 
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