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An aerial photo released by the California Department of Water Resources shows the damaged spillway with eroded hillside in Oroville on Saturday.

The Dam in 2005.

A huge Northern California reservoir, held in place by a massive dam, has always been central to the life of the towns around it.

Now the lake that has brought them holiday fireworks and salmon festivals could bring disaster.

Nearly 200,000 people, who evacuated Sunday over fears that a damaged spillway at Lake Oroville could fail and unleash a wall of water, have to stay away indefinitely while officials race to repair it before

Almost 200,000 people were ordered to leave the towns downhill of the Oroville Dam on Sunday as heavy rainfall left it at risk of bursting.

On Monday it emerged that authorities had ignored warnings about a possible collapse 12 years ago.

The rainfall that is expected Wednesday could pour into a gaping 250ft chasm in the concrete spillway, causing a collapse and unleashing a 30ft 'tsunami' tidal wave that could leave towns along a 40-mile stretch of the Feather River below the dam under 100ft of water.

The situation is now so critical that President Trump is being urged to declare a disaster in Butte, Sutter and Yuba counties, where 200,000 people, including Department of Water staff, were frantically ordered to evacuate their homes and places of work on Sunday.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4221808/Officials-warned-Oroville-Dam-12-years-ago.html

Nice ride.

Jerryolumide:
Once there's a hole the glass weakens na

Yes, but not dat weak. because the front&rear shield are stronger.

Fkforyou:
This is not a matter of inferiority complex, but sometimes I just like the way the whites reason.

If it were my beloved country naija, people for don take temporary accommodation for beach, infact them go turn the beach to market, you go see were them dey sell stove and fry pan for 500 naira.

Sure.

Some of the whales stranded on the beach have died as authorities cut holes in their carcasses to release gas and to prevent them from exploding.

The cause of the strandings was not known but experts believe whales that often become beached would send out distressing signals to other members of their pod, who would then get stranded by a receding tide.

Hours after floating out to sea at high tide, about 90 of the whales were rescued and became beached again.

About 75 per cent were dead on discovery but since then hundreds of volunteers have worked to refloat whales at high tides.

Volunteers are pictured attending to some of the hundreds of stranded pilot whales still alive after one of the country's largest recorded mass whale strandings in Golden Bay.

Before a rescue operation could begin, around 275 of the adults and babies had already died.

Volunteers try to guide some of the stranded pilot whales that are still alive back out to sea.

A volunteer pours water on the whales.

More than 650 pilot whales have become stranded since Thursday night when 416 whales arrived on the beach, which is thought to be death trap for whales as it confuses sonar navigation.

A pod of over 240 whales refloated themselves back out to sea on Saturday night after becoming stranded on the Farewell Spit coastline on New Zealand's South Island.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4215724/240-pilot-whales-refloat-beached-Farewell-Spit-New-Zealand.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4219012/Whales-stranded-Golden-Bay-beach-New-Zealand.html

Eddy2cute:
please oga #explorers these kind of picture can give me heart attack na. that how you also did in that Pablo Escobar's post. please this is rough play ooo

Lols.

These two big bulls fought until their antlers become locked together and drowned.

Now they are frozen in the ice near the western Alaska community of Unalakleet .

Jerryolumide:
Why didn't he use his gun instead of a stone?

Because bullets will only pierce through, making only holes.

Earvin Nierva kisses his bride Riza as they pose for their wedding pictures beside damaged homes and a ship that washed ashore when Typhoon Haiyan hit Tacloban, Philippines a month earlier.

As residents of the area, the newly-wed couple decided to have the photo shoot at the area to symbolize that they can overcome tragedy and to urge residents to "stand up and rise again."




http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/week-in-pictures/year-pictures-2013-news-n186

Washingtonpost

A police vehicle is pushed off of the 6th of October bridge by protesters close to the largest sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt.

Asiana Airlines flight attendants and rescued passengers rest on the runway after Flight 214 crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport, July 6.

Two people were killed in the incident, which came after the plane clipped a seawall at the end of a runway.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama checks to see if he still needs the umbrella held by a U.S. Marine during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington

A man sits on a window opening of a burning building in Lahore, Pakistan, on May 9 after fire erupted on the seventh floor of the 13-story LDA Plaza and quickly spread.

At least three people fell from the building, including the man pictured. A total of eight died, according to local media reports.

Kyle Larson (32) goes into the catch fence as he collides with Justin Allgaier (31), Brian Scott (2), Parker Klingerman (77) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (88) at the conclusion of the NASCAR Nationwide Series auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.

immortalcrown:
See where human right is under protection.

If such a thing happens in naira area, the white man will not be arrested, rather he will be idolized for being a white while the citizen goes to cell.

Someone posted something like that recently where diplomats bashed a nigerian car in Abj and they refused to stop.

The Nigerians that owns the car were detained by Nigeria Police.

A truck is covered in ice as firefighters extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse in Chicago.

More than 200 firefighters battled this fire.

Residents flee their home as flames from the Sand Fire close in on July 23 near Santa Clarita, California.

Triple-digit temperatures and dry conditions fueled the wildfire at a rate of about 10,000 acres per day.

Twizzy30:
Well done Mr explorers. Plss who is anya stark ? Don't tel me to check google

Have you seen this?

A US diplomat has been arrested in Nairobi for fleeing the scene of a road rage clash with another driver where local police claim he brandished a gun.

The diplomat, who has not been named, was disarmed by police after the incident on Sunday, according to authorities in the Kenyan capital.

While it's not clear what prompted the row, Robinson Thuku, chief of police in Nairobi's central business district, said it was 'obvious' it had been a traffic incident.

The US embassy confirmed his arrest but denied local authorities' accusation he drew his gun.

Police fired their weapons three times to stop the diplomat, an Associated Press photographer at the scene said.

The State Department has not released the US diplomat's name but said it was working to assist him.

There was no answer from the US embassy in Nairobi on Sunday morning.






http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4216948/Kenya-police-arrest-US-diplomat-fleeing-accident-scene.html

Planets in sizes.

Just waoh........

Soldiers involved in a failed coup attempt to surrender on the Bosphorus Bridge on July 16 in Istanbul.

The military coup attempt began late July 15 with tanks rolling into the streets of the capital, Ankara, and Istanbul as Recep Tayyip Erdogan was enjoying a seaside vacation.

Explosions and gunfire erupted throughout the night.After the failed coup that left at least 270 people dead, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency and launched a massive crackdown against supporters of the movement led by U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara deemed responsible for the uprising.

Gulen denies any involvement.