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Santino Ramirez, 10, rides a scooter Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. Many Oroville residents returned home to pack an emergency bag, fill their cars with family valuables and leave. New storms forecast to hit Northern California this week will test quick repairs to the Oroville Dam. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Alexis Ramirez, center left, looks out the door of her home, which has been reinforced with sandbags, alongside her friend Kye Bruhn Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. Many Oroville residents returned home to pack an emergency bag, fill their cars with family valuables and leave. Authorities say the immediate danger has passed and allowed people living downstream of the Oroville Dam to go back home Tuesday after ordering an evacuation Sunday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Chantel Ramirez packs as she readies to evacuate Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. Many Oroville residents returned home to pack an emergency bag, fill their cars with family valuables and leave. Authorities say the immediate danger has passed and allowed people living downstream of the Oroville Dam to go back home Tuesday after ordering an evacuation Sunday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Matthew Prumm walks in his garden shortly before evacuating Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. Many Oroville residents returned home to pack an emergency bag, fill their cars with family valuables and leave. Authorities say the immediate danger has passed and allowed people living downstream of the Oroville Dam to go back home Tuesday after ordering an evacuation Sunday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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In this Feb. 13, 2017, photo, rescue crews search the frigid waters of Conesus Lake in Livonia, N.Y., for two missing snowmobilers who are believed to have fallen through the ice. Not-so-frozen lakes have claimed the lives of several snowmobilers across the Northeast so far in a relatively mild winter. (Max Schulte/Democrat & Chronicle via AP)
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In this Feb. 13, 2017 photo, rescue crews use a hovercraft to search the frigid waters of Conesus Lake in Livonia, N.Y., for two missing snowmobilers who are believed to have fallen through the ice. Not-so-frozen lakes have claimed several snowmobilers across the Northeast so far in a relatively mild winter. (Max Schulte/Democrat & Chronicle via AP)
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Boeing employees leave work during a shift change on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in North Charleston, S.C. Thousands of production workers at Boeing's South Carolina plant are deciding whether they want to unionize, writing the next chapter in efforts to organize labor in large manufacturing plants across the South. The first round of voting began early Wednesday. (Wade Spees/The Post And Courier via AP)
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FILE - In this May 8, 2009 file photo, Lonesome George, the last giant terrestrial turtle of the Geochelone species abigdoni, is seen at Galapagos National Park in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos, Ecuador. The turtle's embalmed and preserved body will be returned to the Galapagos Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, where it will be on permanent display to the public. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)
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In this Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 photo, Jessica Hofschulte poses on the farm she runs with her husband, Chad near near Zumbro Falls in southeast Minnesota. Hofschulte says the state's farmer- lender mediation program saved her family's farm. (Catharine Richert/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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A helicopter carries sandbags in the direction of a damaged dam Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. The Oroville Reservoir is continuing to drain Wednesday as state water officials scrambled to reduce the lake's level ahead of impending storms. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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A trail runs along the Feather River as water gushes from the Oroville Dam's main spillway Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. The Oroville Reservoir is continuing to drain Wednesday as state water officials scrambled to reduce the lake's level ahead of impending storms. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Water gushes down the Oroville Dam's main spillway Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. The Oroville Reservoir is continuing to drain Wednesday as state water officials scrambled to reduce the lake's level ahead of impending storms. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Water gushes down the Oroville Dam's main spillway Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. The Oroville Reservoir is continuing to drain Wednesday as state water officials scrambled to reduce the lake's level ahead of impending storms. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Graves are submerged in floodwaters in a cemetery downstream from a damaged dam Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Marysville, Calif. The Oroville Reservoir is continuing to drain Wednesday as state water officials scrambled to reduce the lake's level ahead of impending storms. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Water gushes down the Oroville Dam's main spillway Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. The Oroville Reservoir is continuing to drain Wednesday as state water officials scrambled to reduce the lake's level ahead of impending storms. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Rocks are loaded onto trucks as part of the efforts to repair the Oroville Dam Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. The Oroville Reservoir is continuing to drain Wednesday as state water officials scrambled to reduce the lake's level ahead of impending storms. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Graves are submerged in floodwaters in a cemetery downstream from a damaged dam Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Marysville, Calif. The Oroville Reservoir is continuing to drain Wednesday as state water officials scrambled to reduce the lake's level ahead of impending storms. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Crews make their way along a road atop the Oroville Dam Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. The Oroville Reservoir is continuing to drain Wednesday as state water officials scrambled to reduce the lake's level ahead of impending storms. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Graves are submerged in floodwaters at a cemetery downstream from a damaged dam Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Marysville, Calif. The Oroville Reservoir is continuing to drain Wednesday as state water officials scrambled to reduce the lake's level ahead of impending storms. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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In this March 27, 2016, file photo, a visitor take pictures of cherry blossom trees in full bloom on the tidal basin in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
