Of chicago and the south side cultural sent, thank you for having us. [ applause ] thanks for joining us tonight, happy friday. Nice to have you with us. Look at this awesome picture from 1968. I love every single thing about this picture. This is the Central Middle School band from orville, california. This is the majorettes part of the band and they are marching through downtown orville, california, on may 1, 1968. This picture is perfec and this picture the property of the California Department of Water Resources. The reason the California Department of Water Resources had a photographer on site taking pictures that day of the majorettes in orville is because that day the governor of california and his wife came too orville, california, to tour a really big awesome new piece of Water Structure the california
governor at the time was Ronald Reagan. He and his wife nancy went to orville for the dedication of the brand new orville dam. It looks kind of fun. They got to go inside the da
lake fills up and overfills and overtops that dam, if that happens, the water doesn t run down the tidy little purpose built concrete shute into the feather river below, if it overtops the dam, instead for the first time in the history of this dam, where the water goes is what they call down the emergency spillway which is not really a spillway at all, it just means the water just comes down the hill. and if all that water runs down the hill at force it will at some point bring the hillside down with it into the feather river and eventually into the sacramento river and into the delta and out to the san francisco bay. there s the possibility that an uncontrolled flow could flood downstream towns all along the way. so this is a heck of a choice, right? you either shut down the water down that spillway, let the dam get overtopped and run instead down the hillside all the way downstream and see what happens to california or you keep thundering water down that
can no longer run water down that spillway to relieve the pressure in the lake, if the lake fills up and overfills and overtops that dam, if that happens, the water doesn t run down the tidy little purpose built concrete shute into the feather river below, if it overtops the dam, instead for the first time in the history of this dam, where the water goes is what they call down the emergency spillway which is not really a spillway at all, it just means the water just comes down the hill. and if all that water runs down the hill at force it will at some point bring the hillside down with it into the feather river and eventually into the sacramento river and into the delta and out to the san francisco bay. there s the possibility that an uncontrolled flow could flood downstream towns all along the way. so this is a heck of a choice, right? you either shut down the water down that spillway, let the dam