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Scenes from Oroville, CA
Creepy place.
#photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #abandoned #Oroville#California #SacramentoValley #ButteCounty

Scenes from Oroville, CA (continued)
Some signs and things seen around the town. #Oroville #ButteCounty #California #history #photography #signs #GooglePixel #abandoned #blackandwhite #GoldCountry

Scenes from Oroville, CA
Oroville Carnegie Library, or as it is now the Butte County Public Law Library. I'm always on the lookout for Carnegie libraries on my travels. We could sure use more Andrew Carnegies today. Talking to you, all you billionaires. #Oroville #ButteCounty #California #architecture #history #Carnegie #ClassicalRevival #library #NationalRegisterofHistoricPlaces

Scenes from Oroville, CA
Oroville Main Post Office, opened in 1932. It's on the National Register of Historic Places. #history #architecture #RenaissanceRevival #StarvedClassical #BeauxArts #NationalRegisterofHistoricPlaces #NRHP #postoffice #UnitedStatesPostOffice #USPS #Oroville #ButteCounty #California #GoldCountry

Scenes from Oroville, CA
Oroville State Theatre, opened in 1928. Lovingly restored. It's on the National Register of Historic Places. I wished I could have seen the inside. I kept finding more interesting things as I was walking and driving around the area. #history #architecture #SpanishColonialRevival #NationalRegisterofHistoricPlaces #NRHP #theatre #theater #neon #Oroville #ButteCounty #California #GoldCountry

Scenes from Oroville, CA
The indigenous California peoples harvested acorns and ground the meal on stone mortars using stone pestles. One of the saddest stories is Ishi, the the last known member of the Native American Yahi people. In 1911, aged 50, he emerged at a barn and corral, 2 mi from downtown Oroville. The rest of the Yahi were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century. #NativeAmerican #indigenouspeople #indigenous #Oroville #California #acorn #ButteCounty #history

Scenes from Oroville, CA
The Oroville Dam and Lake Oroville. This is a big ass dam, the tallest dam in the US, completed in 1968. A big story, in February 2017, the main and emergency spillways threatened to fail, leading to the evacuation of 188,000 people living near the dam. The Lake Oroville Visitors Center has a great exhibit about the emergency. California has an incredible water infrastructure on an unbelievable scale. #OrovilleDam #Oroville #LakeOroville #California #dam #water

Scenes from Oroville, CA
The Mother Orange Tree is the oldest living orange tree in Northern California. Planted in 1856, and transplanted twice from its original location. My Dad moved from Michigan to California in 1954. He loved the fact that he could grow citrus fruit in our backyard. So, we always had orange and lemon trees in our backyard and fresh citrus fruit right from the tree. #citrus #MotherOrangeTree #GoldCountry #Oroville #California #ButteCounty #history #landmark

I visited Shasta Lake on Saturday... so beautiful and still filling with water! Water isn't being released there like at Lake Oroville, which has now FALLEN a foot to the same level it was on Thursday!

#California #Chico #Redding #Oroville #ShastaLake #LakeOroville #beautiful #water #lake #lakes #Saturday #Sunday #weekend #weather #wx #cawx #caweather

The setting sun Thursday over Lake Oroville and Oroville Dam. The water has risen another foot since I took these... only 39 feet from the top!

#California #Chico #Oroville #LakeOroville #NorCal #sun #sunset #dusk #rain #snowmelt #atmosphericriver #runoff #Thursday #Friday #March #winter #weather #wx #cawx #caweather #weatherMastodon #wxmastodon #climate #photography

Last Friday, 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) began being released from Lake Oroville, THIS is 25,000 cfs, and it's increasing to 35,000 cfs tomorrow!

Oro Dam Boulevard will be closed tomorrow because it will be unsafe to drive through all the mist... I had to use my windshield wipers today!

#California #Chico #Oroville #LakeOroville #NorCal #rain #snowmelt #atmosphericriver #runoff #Thursday #March #winter #spring #weather #wx #cawx #caweather #weatherMastodon #wxmastodon #climate

Last Friday, 15,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) began being released from Lake Oroville, THIS is 25,000 cfs, and it's increasing to 35,000 cfs tomorrow!

#California #Chico #Oroville #LakeOroville #NorCal #rain #snowmelt #atmosphericriver #runoff #Thursday #March #winter #spring #weather #wx #cawx #caweather #weatherMastodon #wxmastodon #climate

Lake Oroville is now only 40 feet from full pool, it's risen 20 feet since Monday, 150 feet since January 1st, and 200 feet since December!

#California #Chico #Oroville #LakeOroville #NorCal #atmosphericriver #rain #snowmelt #runoff #Thursday #March #winter #spring #weather #wx #cawx #caweather #weatherMastodon #wxmastodon #climate