Originally Posted by rnovi
Ah, so this picture makes more sense to me. The main spillway had damage. The emergency spillway then cut into the main spillway exacerbating the damage.

That's bad...really bad.

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The California Department of Water Resources stopped the spillway flow on Thursday morning to allow engineers to evaluate the integrity of the structure after water had been released at 20,000 cubic feet per second through the night. (Courtesy of the California Department of Water Resources).

Bad indeed.. Yikes..


Only thing I ever saw close to that was back in the '70s when a town south of me got 7" of rain in about an hour.. A 2 block section of an entire STREET (sidewalk-to-sidewalk and 20+ feet deep) washed into the Mississippi..

It was incredible - but nothing like the size of the damage above.. Those residents beneath are lucky that thing didn't fail.. eek

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