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Re:Areas near Sacramento evacuated as Oroville spillway coll... by k26dr on Sunday February 12, 2017 @11:54PM (#13633214)
The emergency spillway has never been needed before, so it's never had a chance to be tested by the looks of it
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Re:Areas near Sacramento evacuated as Oroville spillway coll... by ChefDenominator on Monday February 13, 2017 @09:21AM (#13635342)
The rule for backups is that if you haven't successfully performed a complete restoration from backup, then you have no backup.

Same principle seems to apply to spillways.

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