The Trillion-Gallon Question: What If California’s Dams Fail?

This was a well written article. Making people aware of the engineering/hydrological analysis of a possible event is not fear mongering. It is the first step to planning.

"modeled on the Great Flood of 1862, which also made a lake of the Central Valley". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862

The failure of the Oroville Dam spillway in 2017 and the hasty evacuation of home downstream was a real crisis event. Today Oroville is at 100% capacity [1] but snowpack seems to have been greatly reduced from the peak this year [2]. One could easily visualize a scenario where a rapid warming in April of this year could have caused snow melt to overwhelm the reservior flood storage capacity.

[1] https://engaging-data.com/ca-reservoir-dashboard/

[2] https://engaging-data.com/california-reservoirs-and-snowpack...