Intuitive fred888: The definition of "recorded History" is specifically in relation to the 1862 California Floods

Thursday, March 22, 2018

The definition of "recorded History" is specifically in relation to the 1862 California Floods

The reason I wanted to define this is that even though verbal memorized histories from various California tribes speak of floods periodically similar to California floods back thousands of years, White people didn't always take them seriously because in the 1800s at least they didn't trust Native American chronologies. However, now studied by many researchers, scientists from many universities as well as our government (state and Federal) have found that the 1862 flood is no anomaly but rather a periodic event which happens at least every 300 years for thousands of years. The frequency is usually between a 150 and 300 year event where basically any cities in California would be mostly washed away.

To me, this makes sense because explorers from China and Russia and many Pacific Rim Countries had been coming to California before 1700.

So, the question becomes "Why didn't they start colonies and cities in California?"

The answer appears to be the 150 to 300 year floods that likely washed ANY cities they might have built as colonizers away. So, either anyone building them (including Native Americans) either died, were washed away into the oceans etc.

We might have enough technology now to survive the next one.

However, imagining the Sacramento River over 20 miles wide is sort of like standing at Long Beach or Palos Verdes on the edge of the ocean and imagining the Sacramento River in width from There to Catalina Island.

If you have ever driven up Interstate 5 from Stockton through Sacramento to Redding you know almost everything you see while driving that route would be underwater on that drive in 1862 if that were to happen now.

It also might be important to know that during the 1862 floods the California state Capitol had to be moved to San Francisco which is hilly and couldn't flood from Sacramento by boat and it stayed there for at least 6 months while Sacramento dried out and about 1/4 of all land became unusuable in California and this flood changed California from a cattle state to a farming state because so many cattle were washed out to sea and drowned in the flooding.

It bankrupted the state because so many died or were financially ruined and couldn't pay property taxes all over the state too because they had no dry land or business left to make money with.

Great Flood of 1862 - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862

Jump to Southern California - The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to January 1862. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows in the very high elevations that began in Oregon in November 1861 and continued into January 1862.

‎Background · ‎Impact by region · ‎California · ‎Arizona

California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe ...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/.../atmospheric-rivers-california-megaflood-lesson...

The heavy rains also triggered landslides and mud slides on California's steep hillsides. ... In Nevada, a normally arid state, twice its typical annual rainfall occurred in the two-month period of December 1861 to January 1862.