On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 8:54:31 AM UTC-10, Cheri wrote:
> "dsi1" <dsi1yahoo.com> wrote in message news:10064770-c3ab-41f6-8072-
>
> My in-laws live in Oroville. When I visited the place several years ago, it
> was a nasty scene. The area was an ugly black and brown tinderbox just
> waiting to explode and the lake was drying up. Of course, we visited the
> dam. Evidently, it's mostly a big pile of dirt. Beats me how that works. I
> haven't heard anything to suggest that the situation is under control.
>
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> It is hard to trust when they said on the original spillway failure that
> they had not walked it to inspect, but looked at it and didn't see a
> problem. Really? You can tell by looking? Then they said that in 2007 the
> emergency spillway was recommended to be concreted but the state declined to
> spend the money for that, so hard to know who to trust. They said it was the
> tallest dam in the US, which I did not know and I would not like to be
> living under that threat at any rate, but the headline in the paper today
> was that the threat had passed and people could return home. Personally, I
> would wait awhile, but it was a nightmare for the evacuees with traffic,
> price gouging etc. also burglary and looting going on.
>
> Cheri

My brother-in-law was spending his time helping people evacuate. My sister-in-law is watching 8 foster kids. My niece has 30 people staying at her house. These guys really step up to the plate. I did not hear about the looting. That's nasty.