And one soon to be rusty car from driving through water
I was dropping of a uhaul trailer I was renting to transport my motorcycle and he had a picture of a rusty 1940s car that was deposited on his desktop for the business computer
there. I mentioned how the car looked like it had been deposited during a flood so the people who owned it never knew where it got to. Or they had looked for it but it was either too damaged to be removed from where it was or there were no roads nearby to drive it out or other extenuating circumstances.I mentioned that there was and 1862 flood you can read on Wikipedia about that created a 20 mile wide Sacramento River (if you can imagine that). It would almost be like looking out at Catalina Island from Long Beach or Los Angeles and imagining that distance being the Sacramento River. IT is 26 miles from the nearest point of land to Avalon Harbor on Catalina Island. So, Imagine the Sacramento River being that wide during the Floods of 1862 and how much havoc and carnage that would create.
Since we are due (historically) for another flood season of this magnitude anytime now (every 100 to 300 years typically) this is something we are going to have to prepare for from the Columbia River South over into Arizona and New Mexico and up as far as Utah.
Here is more about it historically from Wikipedia:
Great Flood of 1862 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
Jump to Southern California - [edit]. In Southern California, beginning on December 24, 1861, it rained for almost four weeks for a total of 35 inches at Los ...
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