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Noon report....
Now at 170000 acres burned. 21 confirmed dead, over 500 missing, and averaging <3% contained across 22 fires, many at 0% in populated areas. Calistoga and surrounding areas are now being evacuated with high winds (35mph with 50 mph gusts) expected.
This is far from over.

Rome is burning....where's Nero?

I saw the driver interviewed and he said that's not even his truck. A neighbor lent it to him to do rescues, and he estimated they helped around 1000 people evacuate so far.
That's Texas.

For reference: flows at the their highest out of the spillways were exceeding the flows at Niagra Falls---

And---in 2005, 3 environmental groups tried to get the State to concrete armor the emergency spillway---they protested it would be too expensive and not necessary...And of course, with the main spillway out of action, the emergency spillway has started to erode as well---and 200,000 people have been evacuated. To my understanding---and I'm not a hydraulic engineer---the risk with the emergency spillway is that the water flowing over the concrete "cap" or "curb" has started to...duh...erode the earth below the cap. If it erodes too far, the concrete cap will tumble off, a 30 foot wall of water will cascade over the edge, the the dam will start to erode...

#OrovilleSpillway for current tweets


Orville is under mandatory evacuation as they fear the emergency spillway may fail.
http://www.ktvu.com/weather/weather-news-headlines/235380255-story

Why the spillway may fail from California Dept. of water resources. https://www.periscope.tv/w/1yoKMeddkVeKQ

video
http://www.kcra.com/article/evacuation-orders-issued-for-low-levels-of-oroville/8735215

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/evacuations-underway-as-oroville-dam-prepares-for-failure-875775043662

That was a remarkable evacuation.

Yeah so, a couple of things.
1. It was a 7.5

and
2. as someone who lived through it, and had to be evacuated because of a tsunami warning at 2am, trust me.... it really wasn't that funny.

*nochannel *nature *fear *downunder

Also, cows aren't pets.

I saw a fun Pro Tip about this on reddit.

If you decide not to evacuate the area, write your SSN in permanent marker on your arm to help your next of kin identify your body.

To paraphrase a fire official: We have a three step evacuation procedure. The first step is to warn residents to be ready to evacuate. We skipped that step and went straight to get the fuck out now.

Please tell me this was a lightning strike or other natural occurrence. Because if it was arson then hang that bastard by his toes. Forget the cost of clean up and replacement, the toxic fumes coming off those ties is enough to force an evacuation of the area.

Update: All of Fort McMurray under mandatory evacuation order, 80,000 people. The former main evacuation centre has been evacuated along with the hospital. In this situation usually fire crews from other provinces would be flying into AB to help but the fire situation here in BC is so bad that no BC crews will be going. Hopefully they'll get help from Ont. & Que.

When I was about six I caught some sort of hallucinatory fever that convinced me evil vines and creepers were taking over everything and we had to evacuate the planet.

My mother was trying to get me to sleep it off and I kept screaming at her "You don't understand, we have to get to NASA! The plants are coming!"

He listed at least one reason, that because they are often single track systems, a single breakdown freezes the entire system.

Once it's assumed that it's not reliable or, worse, that there's a decent chance of being stuck in a suspended/elevated train until the whole system can be evacuated (requiring specialized rescue from every train that didn't stop in a station, then being 'down' until the breakdown is fixed or removed), people won't use it, and it will fail.

That doesn't explain why they don't just make all systems 2 track systems like the German one to solve that issue for a bit more money (but not double the money), but it does explain why some failed. It seems to me that they could still be a decent solution in some congested areas where light rail only adds to congestion, and they look neat.

They aren't. They had been evacuated. http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/26/us/pacifica-residences-on-cliffs-edge/index.html

Why the fuck are people still in those apartments?!

Evacuate that place. There is nothing that can be done unfortunately