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California dam threatens towns below

Some 188,000 residents are evacuated as a crumbling overflow channel at America's tallest dam shows severe erosion during a wet Northern California winter.

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California dam threatens towns below

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  1. California dam undermines towns below

  2. Water is discharged from the Lake Oroville Dam after a clearing was requested for groups downstream from the dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

  3. Staff with the California Department of Water Resources look as water is discharged from the Lake Oroville Dam after a departure was requested for groups downstream from the dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

  4. A burial ground is overwhelmed in Marysville, California, after a clearing was requested for groups downstream from the dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

  5. A RV is overflowed in Marysville, California, after a departure was requested for groups downstream from the dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

  6. A empty Walmart is imagined as water is discharged from the Lake Oroville Dam after a clearing was requested for groups downstream from the dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

  7. Displaced men get gave toothbrushes from the Salvation Army help focus at the Placer County Fairgrounds in Roseville, California. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

  8. The city of Oroville is vacant after a clearing was requested for groups downstream from the Lake Oroville Dam, in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

  9. The region of disintegration on the lower half of the Oroville Dam spillway is seen after overnight test streams in Oroville, California. California Department of Water Resources/Kelly Grow/Handout by means of REUTERS

  10. Water is discharged from the Lake Oroville Dam after a departure was requested for groups downstream from the dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

  11. California Department of Water Resources teams assess and assess the disintegration just underneath the Lake Oroville Emergency Spillway site after lake levels subsided, in Oroville, California. Kelly M. Develop/California Department of Water Resources/Handout by means of REUTERS

  12. People look as helicopters pull shake to the Lake Oroville Dam after a departure was requested for groups downstream from the dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

  13. The city of Oroville is vacant after a clearing was requested for groups downstream from the Lake Oroville Dam, in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

  14. Rock is pulled to the Lake Oroville Dam after a clearing was requested for groups downstream from the dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

  15. A harmed spillway with dissolved slope is found in an airborne photograph assumed control over the Oroville Dam in Oroville, California. California Department of Water Resources/William Croyle/Handout by means of REUTERS

  16. Members of the Jordan Crossing Ministry of Oroville, California, appeal to God for Marine Russell Bluxome at a Red Cross alleviation focus in Chico, California, after a clearing was requested for groups downstream from the Lake Oroville Dam in Oroville. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

  17. California Department of Water Resources teams investigate and assess the disintegration just beneath the Lake Oroville Emergency Spillway site after lake levels subsided, in Oroville, California. Kelly M. Develop/California Department of Water Resources/Handout by means of REUTERS

  18. The city of Oroville is vacant after a departure was requested for groups downstream from the Lake Oroville Dam, in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

  19. Desiree Garcia and her little girl Kay'lee, of Oroville, filter through gave attire at a Red Cross help focus in Chico, California, after a departure was requested for groups downstream from the Lake Oroville Dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

  20. 65,000 cfs of water move through a harmed spillway on the Oroville Dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Max Whittaker

  21. The California hail waves in overwhelmed Riverbend Park as water is discharged from the Lake Oroville Dam after a departure was requested for groups downstream from the dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

  22. A heap of rocks is lifted by a helicopter close to the Lake Oroville Dam after a clearing was requested for groups downstream from the dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

  23. Volunteers stack gave things at a Red Cross alleviation focus in Chico, California, after a departure was requested for groups downstream from the Lake Oroville Dam, in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

  24. California Department of Water Resources teams assess and assess the disintegration just beneath the Lake Oroville Emergency Spillway site after lake levels subsided, in Oroville, California. Kelly M. Develop/California Department of Water Resources/Handout by means of REUTERS

  25. Children hold signs expressing gratitude toward truck drivers pulling rocks to the Lake Oroville Dam after a departure was requested for groups downstream from the dam in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

  26. The Oroville repository level is seen near the highest point of Oroville Dam, after a progression of tempests prompted to an expanded water level while a harmed spillway hampered endeavors to give water a chance to out of the supply, in Oroville, California. REUTERS/Max Whittaker

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