Good updates on Addicks & Barker Dams: facebook.com/GalvestonDistri… . Addicks (but not Barker) starting to flow into auxiliary spillways @ ends.

Aug 30, 2017 · 1:28 AM UTC

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Hopefully use of auxiliary spillways less scary than at Oroville (which was very steep and fast flowing). Recall:
CA - DWR @CA_DWR
13 Feb 2017
EMERGENCY EVACUATION: Auxiliary spillway at Oroville Dam predicted to fail within the next hour. Oroville residents evacuate northward.
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But part of the lesson of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orovil… seemed to be that untested infrastructure might not work.
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