Saturday, March 21, 2015

Reprint of Word button for: Potential 200-yr. Flood in California more devastating than the Big One?

PLease click on the following word button to read this still timely article:

Potential 200-yr Flood in California more devastat...

When you realize that when the 1862 flood in California that killed thousands of people and washed 1/4 of all cattle and livestock in the state then into the ocean basically through the Sacramento River and bankrupted the state of California and forced Governor Stanford to move the Capitol to San Francisco by Boat for about 6 months because all of Sacramento was under water that long and the Sacramento River was 20 miles wide at that time with a lake 200 by 300 miles that lasted around Sacramento and Stockton that long and you realize this is a once every 100 to 200 year event, you might get a little nervous. Because this happened 153 years ago in 1862 and this is an every 100 to 200 year historical event back through time. Also, that event was preceded by a 10 to 20 year drought and we have been in this one almost 7 years already.

Here is a little quote from this article by the USGS: She noted that California is the only state outside of the hurricane-prone Southeast that tends to see rainfall as large as, say, 16 inches over a three-day period.
"This has to happen at some point," Jones said. "How prepared are we? That's essentially unanswerable. No flood control system can be or should be built to withstand every possible storm."
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In the 1862 floods there was incredible rain for 45 days straight which killed thousands of people, washed away an incredible amount of ranches and farms and estates completely, to the point where literally anything made of wood washed into the ocean or at least the San Francisco Bay 50 to 300 or more miles away along with human bodies and the bodies of 1/4 of the livestock of all kinds in the State of California then in 1862. This bankrupted the State of California then.

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