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Several pilots have published videos of overflying the Oroville Dam. Here's one from a guy who makes some good videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2YHGR3
by clamprecht 10y ago
Several pilots have published videos of overflying the Oroville Dam. Here's one from a guy who makes some good videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2YHGR3kVLk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2YHGR3kVLk
The money shot is at 2:25
- mabbo 10y agoThat's a lot of boats up just past the dam. I'm surprised their owners aren't hastily trying to get them out of the water. If the dam fails in a major way, god only knows what will happen to the boats...
- S_A_P 10y agoInsurance claims.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoMight insurance exclude this type of event?
- clamprecht 10y agoIf they deem it an "act of God" (whatever that means), it could be excluded.
- Stratoscope 10y agoNo one is worried about the dam failing. The emergency spillway is the problem. It's the hillside you see in the video with water flowing down it, to the left of the main spillway. If the emergency spillway failed, it could lower the water level in the reservoir by 30 feet. That would be catastrophic downstream, of course, but probably wouldn't have much effect on the boats.
- mabbo 10y ago> No one is worried about the dam failing My wife, a Water Resources Engineer, is. If the damage to the spillway starts to move sideways, or uphill too far and too deep, you could see the main dam get damaged. It's not as likely as the emergency spillway dropping things 30 feet, as you say, but it's still on the table as a worst-case scenario here.
- Stratoscope 10y agoOh my. I stand corrected. Well, let's hope for everyone's sake that this worst-case scenario does not happen!