La presa dañada de Oroville
The Marysville cemetery underwater along the Feather River.
(Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
Nirmal Singh, a Sikh priest, conducts a morning prayer ritual as evacuees sleep in the background at the Shri Guru Ravidass, a Sikh temple that has opened its doors for evacuees of the Oroville Dam crisis in Rio Linda, Calif.
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Juan Pablo Cervantes, 4, bottom left, remains asleep as the priests conduct their morning prayers at 6 a.m. at the Shri Guru Ravidass, a Sikh temple that has opened its doors for evacuees of the Oroville Dam crisis in Rio Linda, Calif.
(Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
Sunsagam Preet Kaur, 11, from left, Kamlesh Nahar, Muskan Kaur, 5, and Kaveen Kaur, 12, are part of a groupe of evacuees staying at the Shri Guru Ravidass Temple.
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Kamlesh Nahar, left, and her daughter, Manita Sidhu, right, sip chai tea for breakfast after spending the night at the Shri Guru Ravidass, a Sikh temple that has opened its doors for all evacuees of the Oroville Dam crisis, in Rio Linda, Calif.
(Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
Kamlesh Nahar, far left, talks to fellow evacuees at the Shri Guru Ravidass Temple.
(Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
Children from the Cervantes family, from Olivehurst, Jesus, 11, center, Juan Pablo, 4, center bottom, and Eibeth, 8, right, play as they get settled in for the night in the prayer room at the Shri Guru Ravidass Temple.
(Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
Oroville evacuees Alejandra Mendoza, right, plays a card game with her cousin Liset Lopez during a second night at the Bangor Community Hall in Bangor, Calif.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Maria Lopez reads on her smartphone as she spends a second night in her father’s car in the parking lot of the Bangor Community Hall.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Sharon Dalton finds a quiet spot under a table as she spends a second night with her dog Cruiser inside the Bangor Community Hall.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Verna Chadwick and 10-month-old son Raiden Ellis during a second night in the Bangor Community Hall.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
The emergency spillway, left, and the damaged main spillway at Lake Oroville are seen in an aerial photo Monday.
(Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images)
A dump truck crosses the primary spillway to deliver boulders to the damaged emergency spillway at Lake Oroville on Monday evening.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Helicopters place large rocks on the damaged emergency spillway at Lake Oroville on Monday evening.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Around-the-clock monitoring continues on the damaged primary spillway at Lake Oroville on Monday evening.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Water rushes down a spillway at the Oroville Dam. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
An aerial view shows damage at the emergency spillway at Lake Oroville.
(Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)California Department of Fish and Game wardens view the damaged spillway on Monday. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Bill O’Kelley, 86, and wife Doris O’Kelley, 84, of Oroville sit near a flagpole Monday at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds evacuation center in Chico, Calif.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Coua Tha, of Oroville prepares a meal for her family in the parking lot at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds evacuation center in Chico, Calif.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Desiree Garcia and daughter Kay’lee Pearl Garcia, 3, of Oroville look over donated clothing Monday at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds evacuation center in Chico, Calif.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Members of Oroville’s Jordan Crossing Mission pray with a volunteer service member Monday at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds evacuation shelter in Chico, Calif.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
The swollen Feather River flows through Oroville, Calif., on Monday.
(Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)
Water rushes down a spillway as an emergency measure at the Oroville Dam. Almost 200,000 people were under evacuation orders in Northern California after a threat of catastrophic failure at the United States’ tallest dam.
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A building is submerged in Riverbend Park as more water is released from Lake Oroville.
(JOSH EDELSON / AFP)
Siblings Zach Soto, 11, left, and Gabby Soto, 13, keep an eye on the Feather River along a railroad bridge in Oroville, Calif., on Monday. The family decided to stay in Oroville as they live on high ground near downtown.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Kendra Curieo waits in traffic to evacuate Marysville, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. She was among thousands Northern Californians told to leave their homes.
(Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)
A driver waits in traffic to evacuate Marysville, Calif., on Sunday
(Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)Water flows down the damaged main spillway of the Oroville Dam at 55,000 cubic feet per second into the Feather River. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Water from Lake Oroville flows down the damaged main spillway.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Water from Lake Oroville flows down the emergency spillway of the Oroville Dam toward the Feather River.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Pacific Gas & Electric crews aided by a helicopter removed transmission lines and insulators from towers standing in the bed of the emergency spillway of Lake Oroville.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
PG&E crews remove power lines and insulators from transmission towers as a precaution as water flows down the emergency spillway at Lake Oroville.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Water flows into the emergency spillway at Lake Oroville on Feb. 11, 2017.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Millions of gallons of rushing water continue to pound and erode the concrete Oroville Dam spillway on Friday. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
A rainbow appears over Feather River as water cascades down the damaged spillway at Lake Oroville Dam.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)Water cascades down the spillway below Oroville Dam. The water is being released by authorities to avoid flooding at Lake Oroville because of recent heavy rain. (David Butow / For The Times)
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. crews move two electric transmission line towers on the bank of Feather River as a precaution if the Lake Oroville Dam emergency spillway needs to be used.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
A California Highway Patrol cruiser patrols Lake Oroville Dam, which is closed to the public due to the damaged spillway.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
A hillside next to the Lake Oroville Dam spillway has been eroded.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Crews from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. work to move two electric transmission line towers.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Water cascades down the spillway below the Oroville dam. The water is being released by authorities to ease flooding in Lake Oroville because of recent heavy rain.
(David Butow / For the Times)
Butte Country Sheriff Kory L. Honea speaks with department of water and power workers at an overlook as the observe runoff from the Oroville Dam.
(David Butow / For the Times)
Water trickles down as workers inspect part of the Lake Oroville spillway failure in Oroville, Calif.
(Randy Pench / Associated Press)
Eric See, spokesman for the state Department of Water Resources, briefs members of the media on the current conditions of the damaged spillway in Oroville.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
A boat launch at Bidwell Canyon is still hundreds of yards above the current lake level on Jan. 21, 2016.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
California State Park Ranger Bryan Taylor searches for signs of disturbance or theft as California’s severe drought conditions are revealing historic artifacts at Lake Oroville, June 21, 2014.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Severe drought conditions are evident as a family treks across a long path back to their car at Lake Oroville, June 21, 2014.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Houseboats are dwarfed by steep banks that show the water level down 160 feet from the high water mark at the Bidwell Bar Suspension Bridge over Lake Oroville on June 21, 2014.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Houseboats at Bidwell Canyon Marina at Lake Oroville, January 21, 2016.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)