Apparently that state can’t catch a break. It’s been raining in California this winter at record-breaking levels — much to the relief to state residents I’m sure — and now the dam’s literally bursting:
An evacuation has been ordered for low-lying levels of Oroville and several areas downstream from Lake Oroville, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office said.
“Officials are anticipating a failure of the Auxiliary Spillway at Oroville Dam within the next 60 minutes (5:45 p.m.),” the California Department of Water Resources said on Facebook.
OK, so the dam is just too full and probably won’t actually burst. Which means that ‘literally’ is being misused. But I don’t care. This post approaches the line of what I’ll post about these days as it is, and if we discuss infrastructure at all it WILL go over that line.