so it flows, you know, nicely and calmly into the feather river below, eventually into the sacramento river out into the san francisco bay. but last week, the water coming down that spillway started looking crazy, right, shooting up and sideways and these churning plumes. when they shut off the water to look at what was wrong, they discovered this massive sinkhole in this spillway and it was growing. how big is this hole in the spillway? it s this big. that s people. those little yellow specks there are people inspecting the damage. but they have to keep running water down that spillway even if the water makes that hole worse, even if the water erodes more of that spillway because, as i said, the lake is full. even pumping as much water as fast as they could down that dam and spillway was not enough as of this weekend. and on saturday, for the first time in the 50-year history of that dam, they started pouring water over the dam s emergency