Dam Failure: The St. Francis Dam

Below is a satellite view of the previous location of the St. Francis dam, a ways north of Los Angeles, CA.  (Click image to enlarge)

Hydroelectric near-miss: Oroville Dam ***Update #2***

Ha!  This has been serendipitous...  I've been doing a series of posts about dam failures and near misses.  The posts are here, here, and here (with another post on the St. Francis dam in draft) - when lo and behold, we have an ominous near failure in real-time on the evening news right now.