Yes. This is true. Also people move to Oregon and Washington because these are often very beautiful places like California can be along the oceans, through the deserts, and into the mountains etc.
However, you have to be a little concerned about two things:
And they are Earthquakes and extreme weather.
For example, there are only two places in the U.S. where you can expect sometimes to get 16 inches of rain in only 1 to 3 days. And one of them is California. In other words we can have droughts that seem to last forever only to be hit with 16 inches of rain in 1 to 3 days. And because of elevations from well over 14,000 feet to sea level it can get pretty scary when the water suddenly moves from one elevation to another. And when this happens there is usually no warning at all. So, you really don't want to be in any kind of flood plain when this happens or driving your car through one just then either.
I have lived in Washington and California. I haven't lived in Oregon but my oldest daughter has lived in Portland several years now.
My first earthquake was in Washington at around age 3 or 4 and my mother got hysterical and yelled at my father because he was digging a well at the time and she thought he had caused this quake somehow.
Then we moved to southern California and I got used to small quakes all the time.
So, here is what it is like, "What's that?"
"Did a truck hit our house or a plane crash into it?"
"Nope. It was an earthquake. See the chandelier swinging and the pictures falling off the wall?"
This happens several times a year in California to people who live here.
Then there is Cascadia and the San Andreas Fault. The San Andreas is pretty famous and runs from southern California to northern California. Then there is the Cascadian Fault which is even more serious than the San Andreas which runs from Vancouver Island in Canada to Cape Mendicino in California.
Then you have the 150 to every 300 year Arcstorm that hits the entire area like clockwork. IF you notice 1862 is 154 years ago so we are now due for another one anytime. Before the last one there were several years of droughts before the state went bankrupt in this flood and the state Capitol had to move to San Francisco by boat from Sacramento for 6 months. And the state lost so many cattle it changed the state to a farming state from a cattle state. Most cattle people went out of business after this flood, especially in northern California. This also affected Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and Utah and likely Idaho too.
- All types of floods can occur in California, though 90% are caused by riverine flooding. [1] ... December 1861 – January 1862: California's Great Flood Edit
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Also, here is the largest EArthquake I lived through in 1971
- The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as the Sylmar earthquake) occurred in the early morning of February 9 in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in ...
- from California Geology, April/May 1971, Vol. 24, No. 4-5. Special San Fernando Earthquake Edition THE 1971 SAN FERNANDO EARTHQUAKE An hour before sunrise, at 6:01 AM ...
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When searching for great california flood of 1862 products, Amazon customers prefer the following products.Here is a quake I knew was coming so I flew to Maui with my family and watched it live on CNN then:
- The Loma Prieta earthquake was named for the Loma Prieta peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains that lies just to the east of the mainshock epicenter.
- October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. On October 17, 1989, at 5:04:15 p.m. (PDT), a magnitude 6.9 earthquake severely shook the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions.
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- Oct 16, 2014 · Incredible images from the Oct. 17, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in California's Santa Cruz mountains.
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- Loma Prieta (from Spanish loma-hill, prieta-dark) is a 3,790 feet (1,160 m) Northern California mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains. [3] The peak is on private ...
- West Oakland and San Francisco’s Marina district, two dramatically different neighborhoods that were among the most ravaged when the Loma Prieta earthquake brought ...
- Digital Data Series DDS-29 Version 1.2 The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake—Selected Photographs. By John K. Nakata, Charles E. Meyer, Howard G ...
- Apr 17, 2014 · Historic Earthquakes. Santa Cruz Mountains (Loma Prieta), California 1989 10 18 00:04:15 UTC (Local 1989 10 17 05:04:15 p.m. PDT) Magnitude 6.9
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