Deep. 200 feet wide. That issue prompted water managers to stop using the main spillway. That meant water in the that meant water in the lake. Swollen from all this winters storms. Started coming over the emergency spillway. The emergency spillway is just dirt and rocks. And with all the pressure from the water level so high. The concern. Especially yesterday. Was that the dirt and rock could collapse. And that would mean a 30 foot wall of water would come charging down this dirt hill. Some into the feather river. But tons and tons would keep coming downstream. Flooding towns as far south as marysville. 30 miles south of the lake. We are also now learning. That environmentalists raised concerns ayears ago about the stability of the emergency spillway at the oroville dam. But state officials insisted. The structure was safe. This is what the emergency spillway looks like today. Water is no longer spilling over but you can see the damage it left behind from this weekends spillover. Back
Bringing heavy rainfall. Really coming down across parts of the bay area. The front is dragging through. It will continue to move by, as it does you will get rain. The flood advisories along the peninsula, weve seen a lot of rain if a short amount of time and the cells are impressive. Look at the oranges and reds. That is the rain rate. Thats a threequarters of an inch an hour, thats flooding rain east of hayward and dublin. Heavy rain of an inch an hour. Thats impressive rain. It comes down that hard that can cause flooding. A break in between the showers. It will pick up. Along the peninsula storms in south San Francisco. You see that cell bringing heavy rainfall. Thats a significant storm sliding through that area. To the south, you can see that rain making its way toward palo alto and fremont. Heavy downpours. Bringing the rain total of an inch an hour. Thats flooding rain. There will be flooding on the roadway and places with pour drainage, continue to see the showers in parts of