bedro bedrock, even if that whole hillside gets scoured out, continues to get blown apart, they say the dam will hold, they're confident of that, that's good, because it's almost an 800 foot tall dam, tallest dam in the country. but i feel like grasp ago story like this is almost a test of perspective, a test of whether or not you can appreciate the size of large objects in the ne news. my dad, my dear old dad, worked in the california water system for years in various capacities and he's been texting and e-mailing me about this all week so i've been looking at news coverage all week, looking at pictures on the california department of water resources web site all week and i could tell when i saw the pictures of the spillway something dramatic was wrong. i will confess to you, dad, i will confess to you right now, i do not truly appreciate what a literally big deal it was. what a large deal it was until i saw this one particular picture and at first glance it looks like the same old picture of that hole in the middle of the spillway until you realize that