The Sheriff of Butte County did the right thing in issuing the mandatory evacuation order.
IMHO, it won't be all clear until they get the lake down another hundred feet plus. Odds are we're safe enough for now though.
I totally agree with this part...but it was also a situation that was caused by the DWR operators who made the bad decision to reduce the flows enough to allow water over the emergency spillway in the first place...there are reports from a LONG ways back that address the erosion that would happen from the emergency spillway and a concrete "apron" had been proposed YEARS ago.
