Oroville Dam

188,000 evacuated as catastrophe at Tallest Dam in USA still unfolds.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/13/not-a-drill-thousands-evacuated-in-calif-as-oroville-dam-threatens-to-flood/

Live Stream
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Nice area. Used to waterski there. Hope it all works out. I guess Jerry will need to divert some money from the train to nowhere.

 

Being in this storm zone, another big issue has got to be the next storm due here Thursday.

 

Not to mention the Spring run off.

 

Yes agreed, looking out my window, there will be a load of spring run off!

 

I started watching a live feed on Saturday. It sure seemed like it wasn't getting much national attention till this morning.

 

I'm not sure whereabouts in N.Cal you live, or whether you have friends or family in S. Cal.

I live in the Bay Area but have lots of friends and family in S. Cal. The drive down I-5 is getting more difficult with every passing year, and the flight down is a monumental PITA. I'd love to have a bullet train I could board in San Jose in the morning and have lunch in San Diego the same day.

In one recent trip, I had breakfast in Barcelona, then boarded a bullet train, and had lunch in Madrid.

In another trip, I had lunch in Paris, boarded a bullet train, and had dinner in Lyon.

In another, had breakfast in London and lunch in Paris.

You don't know how convenient these bullet trains are until you ride them a few times.

 

For the price it will be and the use it will get Jerry could give everyone a ride in a GV.

Dumbest project ever. And you won't be boarding in SJ or getting off in SD even if a single train actually ever runs.


But don't worry about the dams or roads or the taxes.

Jerry and his stupidity is why I left after nearly 60 years.

 

i doubt the high speed train will ever be finished. if it is, it will not be a high speed train.
fwiw, the first leg of the construction contract went to one of the calif senators husband who owns a construction company. he was awarded the first leg of the construction, some $100m, then requested more money. latest estimates have blown thru the roof for cost of completion.
a calif pipe dream.

 

That too.

It will wind up an unbuilt project on a garbage strewn right of way from Elk Grove to Tehachapi. The only people that will benefit will be the construction people and the lawyers representing all the environmental groups and farmers. The billions the tax payers spend will make a few very wealthy.

 

I don't have a crystal ball and therefore don't know if, when, or at what cost the project will finish.

But corruption and wastefulness in government spending is not unique to California or to Democrats. It is ubiquitous to all infrastructure projects. Globally.

If the Europeans, Chinese, and Japanese can provide their citizenry with clean, affordable, high speed rail, why can't we?

I agree that infrastructure is a broad-based need. We need roads, bridges and dams. We also need trains.

OK ... let me get off my soap box.