The 160,000 cfs was the maximum flow on the Missouri River during the 2011 flood that is still vivid in my memory.
100,000 cfs on the Feather river is just freaking astonishing!
Apparently the evac area is from the dam clear to Sacramento.
The 'theoretical' maximum flow rate out of (an intact) Gavins Pt Dam is ~ 550,000 cfs*. I wouldn't want to be around for that, 160,000 was bad enough.
*I went to a couple NRC meetings on the flood endangered Ft Calhoun power plant. That was a grim experience. And 550,000 cfs isn't the 'worst' scenario the NRC examined . . .
100,000 cfs on the Feather river is just freaking astonishing!
Apparently the evac area is from the dam clear to Sacramento.
The 'theoretical' maximum flow rate out of (an intact) Gavins Pt Dam is ~ 550,000 cfs*. I wouldn't want to be around for that, 160,000 was bad enough.
*I went to a couple NRC meetings on the flood endangered Ft Calhoun power plant. That was a grim experience. And 550,000 cfs isn't the 'worst' scenario the NRC examined . . .
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