Fear, confusion and anxiety from the mass evacuation
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)The evacuations of more than 100,000 people from communities downstream of Lake Oroville Sunday night — in the counties of Butte, Yuba and Sutter — were abrupt and frantic.
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)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)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)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)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)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)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)Debra Walker, of Oroville gets a meal at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds evacuation center in Chico, Calif.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)