Picture of the Day - Flood Line 1995

Today as I helped one of our dealers load up their vehicles following the end of Day Two of the 2nd Annual Spring Cambria Gem, Mineral, & Jewelry Show, I noticed for the first time this sign on the side of the western exterior wall of the Cambria Vets Hall referring to the historic flooding in Cambria's West Village in March, 1995. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

Drone Over Oroville Dam Spillway

For the past couple of days an escalating crisis has developed at Oroville Dam's spillway in Northern California. A hole developed in the spillway earlier this week and the volume of water being released from the dam continues to make the breach greater. The release of water has been out of necessity so that the lake not overtop the dam as a result of the volume of water pouring into the lake behind the dam. As a result, the hole in the spillway and adjacent breach in its wall continue to rapidly expand in extant allowing the adjacent mountainside to be de facto hydraulically mined with the spillway breach water acting as the monitor. Overnight tonight the lake should reach 100% capacity and then the emergency spillway might be used for the first time ever. Stay tuned!

Picture of the Day - Brown Tide

This image was taken from Highway 1 while riding southbound towards Bodega Bay, CA. It was taken near Goat Rock Beach just south of Jenner, CA. I took this image back in Winter 2001 while on a trip to Northern California. The brown region seen in the ocean here is where a surge of flood waters coming down the Russian River had just emerged into Pacific Ocean and had not yet mixed with the ocean water.

Just south of Goat Rock State Beach, Sonoma Coast, CA.

Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

Picture of the Day - Halcon Road Washout

Halcon Road in rural southeast Atascadero washed out by the Salinas River earlier this decade. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).