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Huge amounts of rainfall have caused water levels to rise rapidly in the Oroville Dam, it's got to the point where yesterday the emergency spillway was used and that was eroding due to the water spilling over. The good news is that water is no longer being channelled through the emergency spillway, the bad news is that half of the main spillway has collapsed from water erosion and the current policy of lowering the dam water level at a greater rate will make the problem worse. Of course the situation is dependent on rainfall being minimal. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-13/oroville-dam-evacuations-here-are-latest-updates http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38952847 I just hope the authorities have a plan because that main spillway cannot continue eroding, otherwise it will recede all the way back to the dam and compromise the structure. For some context, the water crashing against those cliffs is part of that erosion. Two weeks ago these cliffs did not exist.
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TMW - Arvuna Satellite System | "Trapped Colony"
Huston posted a City Journal entry in Mass Effect: Beyond
Overview ~ Days on end go by as the search of Dr. Garneau becomes a wild goose chase in the select few systems where Garneau has been thought to have found. The crew then find themselves scowering the backwater garden world satellite system of Dranen, Arvuna for the seemingly difficult to find scientist. But with the Balor system in dismay, and cities being overrun by Reaper forces, the Aysur system is cut off from the Caleston Rift's own Mass Relay. With virtually no way of escape, many take their chances to go off-world in shuttles that attempt to make the run for the Balor Mass Relay. And with the Normandy crew spending several days on the world searching for Garneau, distress signals from nearby cities and settlements drag the crew into aiding with evacuation on the now isolated colony. Schulmanator They sure do! You'll get to see just how much trouble they cause in later updates Efkin Thanks #1SithLord Lol, indeed. Thanks 976 Thanks a lot Dryan, really appreciate the comment Fox Sorry disappoint Fox, here's another serving of ME:TMW ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Note: My BATs for this update rendered poorly, with most of the buildings having no nightilghts despite having rendered them. I only got some of my BATs to actually have nightlighting--gonna have to re-export the rest. And I've spent just about three days trying to get them done, but my computer doesn't really want to co-operate. Better get a new laptop soon Oh and just to mention, this is a side story of a multi-part update I'll be doing soon, and that picture of Arvuna and Dranen was made by me. Yep. Me. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Amongst the dozens of moons of the gas giant system of Dranen, lies a water world claimed by humans as a backwater system, posing little political and strategical influence for the Alliance, as well as the Citadel Council. Thus the system is largely left to fare on its own, just as any other colony in the Terminus is claimed to do. But as the galaxy plunges into galactic war, Reapers invading begin to encroach on colonies and clusters, and while Arvuna remains safe from the mean time, escape from the Rift's only relay isolates the human population that reside on the colony. It leaves many on edge. And many to take their chances either on Arvuna to stand their ground, to evacuate and make an attempt to run for the relay. It all seems quiet on the water world colony, but as fears of an impending offensive on Arvuna lingers, many take their transport ships, freighters and shuttles to the skies to evade the danger and possibility of attack. A colony wide exodus is underway with thousands evacuating countless settlements. However, some of the many try to wait it all out. But out in the oceans, encountering calm skies then intermittently treacherous storms, Joker flies the Normandy around the planet, in search of Dr. Garneau, who may possibly have leads on the location of Leviathan. After many hours of scanning for the doctor on Arvuna, they find no signs of the him anywhere. On the side, EDI and Comm Specialist Traynor receive and pinpoint numerous distress signals from a multitude of colonial settlements around the planet. As their search on Arvuna for Garneau brings no avail, they plan to head out of the system and look to the several more potential locations. But before they leave Arvuna, Samantha informs the Commander of the distress calls from multiple townships, and convinces him to aid in evacuation before perusing his search. With the backing of his crew, he decides to aid in transporting a number of isolated colonists out of the system, they head for one of the settlements closest to the Normandy's location, knowing fully that the Normandy is capable of escaping the cluster through the Mass Relay, undetected. Joker makes the approach for the settlement of Himavrta, in the treacherous rain, and with the radiation shielding in their sights, they know that the settlement is not far out. Though in an almost zero-visibility environment, scanners reveal that they're close to the colony, and below them is the shoreline of the Himavrta Island settlement. The torrential rain and gusty winds make flying conditions oddly difficult, and mass effect fields are up to allow the Normandy to easily maneuver on the Earth-like gravity world. In the ship, people seem restless. James and Steve try to keep themselves busy and prepare to help with the evacuation, clearing space in the cargo hold for evacuees with the help of crew. In the Engine room, Engineer Adams, Ken, Gabby and Tali try to keep the Normandy's systems operating smoothly and managing the eezo core, with pounding weather scrambling some of the Normandy's systems. Meanwhile, in the crew quaters, Dr. Chakwas tries to file through the numerous records that she is intends to manage while tending to her supplies. Garrus tries to pull himself away from calibrating the Thanix cannon and gets ready to get to ground with the civilians. Liara, in her own private quaters, is busy with managing broker contacts, before she loses all communications beyond Arvuna. Instead, she begins flicking through her datapads. Kaidan on the starboard observation deck, looks into the storm restlessly, before immediately deciding to get up and check the situation on the CIC. Joker, being the pilot on the bridge, along with EDI co-piloting the Normandy, has little visual range in his field of view, with the storm obscuring his sight. He relies on the ship's array of sensory data and scanners to inform him of their location and any dangers that might be ahead of them, while at the same time, EDI simeltaneously carries out system tasks regarding the Normandy and informing Joker of any impending hazards. Samantha as well tries to manage data and distress signals coming from all over Arvuna, with John listening in to her every regard, with communications from various settlements before deciding to ready himself for the civilian extraction on the ground. Down below, Himavrta's inhabitants lay distressed, and despite the storm, a little torrential downpour seems to be the least of their worries. Unsure about the situation in Balor, many residents make their way to the settlement's rural spaceport landing zone. Crop shuttles, Kodiaks, Kowloon class freighters and arriving privateer ships help people to go off-world as the Reapers slowly expand their reach in the Rift. As many take to the mass planetary exodus, the lack of lights in the colony make it obvious as to the scale of the inhabitants that have decided to leave Himavrta and Arvuna. As more people are encouraged to evacuate the nearly defenseless colony, the skyline of Himavrta continues to darken in the deep storm's casted shadow. Just on the outskirst HImavrta. the wind turbines that the settlement is dependent on for electricity are abandoned one by one, as per shutting down the colony. With few people to maintain the systems, the power generated is dependent on the few turbines that are still being managed, while the rest are left alone, likely to be thrown off by the dangers of the high winds. Those who have chosen to stand their ground on the settlement try to wait out the storm, and may decide to leave when it is too late. But for now, the stubborn inhabitants left behind lay in wait while their neighbors leave their prefabs abandoned. Down, closer to the shores, a colonist remains calm about the situation, despite the number of abandoned prefabs around him. The storm's intensity rises and falls, with winds blowing the rain into some radical angles and onto the windows of Himavrta's colonial prefab windows. Fortunately, most people have begun to become adapted to Arvuna's wild weather systems of snow, ice and rain. But seeing as the colony nears the equatorial belt of the planet, rain is seen as far more common than snow. At Himavrta's rural spaceport-landing zone, shuttles which arrived, have now mostly left, with other arrivals coming to extract civilians from the township. People wait in prefabs and shelters, awaiting more rescue help from privateers and shuttle pilots. Waiting for what seems like hours, more shuttles arrive to extract locals for evacuation. The shuttles carrying the many residents of Himavrta then lift off with an intent to reach the Balor Mass Relay. Their chances of succeeding in evading the cluster's invading forces seem to be dwindling. But as their distress signal is caught by the Alliance frigate, Normandy, the many civilians still stranded on the ground have high hopes to escape the cluster for safer colonies, or even the Citadel. The stranded colonists, stressed and in fear, then board the Normandy with haste, the ship's crew guiding them into the ship, ready to leave behind their isolated and endangered colony. -- Once they board all the civilians they can take, the Normandy lifts off, it's Loading bay filled with shaken refugees and anxious colonists. The ship leaves Arvuna behind, heading for safer, unoccupied neighboring clusters and even the Citadel in an effort to transport the civilians safely to a more secure area. ___________________________________________________________- 8 Comments
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