Flooding

CNN report: On February 12th, 2017 at least 188,000 people were evacuated from several Northern California counties after damage to a spillway at the Oroville Dam. The dam, which is the nation's tallest, remains intact. The emergency spillway, which guards against the overflow of the dam when water levels are high, was eroding. The damage prompted a mandatory evacuation for cities and counties near Lake Oroville. In the worst case scenario an uncontrolled release from the dam could send a 30-foot wall of water downstream. Here is a link to read more about this.   http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/12/us/california-oroville-dam-failure/

When we were on our way home from church that day the emergency broadcast system that we always hear beeping on the radio for testing was activated and they kept repeating " This is not a test, this is a real emergency. A mandatory evacuation for the following cities is in effect..."

This is a picture taken of our television screen during this process.

Here on the farm we housed many of the evacuees in some of the vacant homes and our LDS Stake also housed many within the homes of the members.

We have had so much rain this month with much flooding. This is as far as we could go on the road out of our home on the way to work. We had to go around to another route.

This is a picture of a lake that formed over an orchard of small trees so they were completely covered by water. It is just now receding. A large flock of tundra swans took advantage of the new lake. 

 
There are whole orchards of trees standing in lakes of water.