Despite all the internet chatter and photos, and videos of cracks, etc., and with the dam now just SEVEN FEET from overtopping, there does remain the possibility that the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has:
Weather modification knowledge, connections, and the ability to redirect any future storms that might truly threaten the catchment area with too much water to handle.
Extremely precise information about the remaining snow pack (not much) that they are not sharing with the public.
True confidence that they CAN use the main spillway despite all evidence to the contrary.
Been trolling the people and want to try to make "fools" of "Orovilletards" and, by extension, 911 truthers, birthers, anti-NWO patriots, etc., etc.
(Never forget that DWR is responsible for THIS...Image courtesy of latimes.com.)
Of course, that also proves, if true, that they are being absolutely treasonously and egregiously foolhardy. Why? Because even if they DO have all those thing, to bring a dam this old to the very brim presumes they can somehow predict that none of the many upstream reservoirs will ever fail, with all of them also nearing or exceeding the 97%-of-full capacity of the main dam.
AND THAT, they can not possibly have.
So here we are, with less than 100,000 acre feet of storage left, with DWR CUTTING OUTFLOWS and telling people they will go ahead and take the water level to 900'.
THAT is the definition of negligence and hubris.
Why is someone not stepping in to stop these lunatics??? Are there people in high places who actually approve of what DWR is doing?
THAT is also, of course, possible.