“Unknown by Sheriff Kory Honea was the emergency spillway was in failure mode and was about to go into full failure which would release a 30 foot wall of water and empty the the top one third of the one of the largest dams in the world onto the numerous towns below thus killing as many as 200,000 people”.
Sheriff Kory Honea Reveals What Brought Him to Order the Evacuation of Over 200,000 People During the Oroville Dam Disaster On the night of February 12, 2017 as the Oroville Dam was over topping at the emergency spillway while the main spillway was closed due to the failure of the main spillway. Unknown by Sheriff Kory Honea was the emergency spillway was in failure mode and was about to go into full failure which would release a 30 foot wall of water and empty the the top one third of the one of the largest dams in the world onto the numerous towns below thus killing as many as 200,000 people.
A screenshot of the interactive map created by UC Irvine which shows the likely path of devastation if either spillway at Lake Oroville should fail. A link to the map is included in the story below.
The inundation from the failure and release would destroy one of America’s richest and most productive food producing areas thus putting at risk food for millions around the world. SHERIFF KORY HONEA OF BUTTE COUNTY tells the story of how he saved over 200,000 lives the night the Oroville Dam over topped on February 12, 2017. In SHERIFF HONEA’S own words listen to what led him to make the heroric decision to evacuate over 200,000 people from under the dam. Listen to the ‘miracle’ decision that was made in spite of the people running the dam.
