I think most Californians will welcome rain of an El Nino year a lot. However, the loss of life and homes and property lost is always difficult every time this happens when we have an El Nino year like now. The biggest problem for California is we have elevations from over 14,000 feet in the Sierras and places like Mt. Shasta and then every other elevation all the way to sea level (the entire Pacific Coast (and then below sea level in Death Valley and I believe the Salton Sea area too.) Death Valley I believe goes 100 to 300 feet below sea level which might be part of why it can reach 130 degrees Fahrenheit or more potentially.
I'm wondering when the return of the 1862 type of flooding will occur (unless Global Warming has thrown off this traditional occurrence) which happens like Clock work every 150 to 300 years for thousands of years now. The last big one bankrupted the state and the Capital had to move to San Francisco for 6 months until Sacramento dried out. They had to move the Capital by Boat all the way to San Francisco as no roads were viable between Sacramento and San Francisco then for at least 6 months time.
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.
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In Nevada, a normally arid state, twice its typical annual rainfall occurred in the two-month period of December 1861 to January 1862. ... In Oregon, two and a half weeks of solid rain caused the worstflooding in this state's history.
Mar 25, 2018 - A rare series of rainstorms could submerge swaths of California under ... The Great Floodof 1862 occurred in a series of storms that lasted just ...
Apr 4, 2018 - The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest ever recorded in Oregon, Nevada and California'shistory. The flooding occurred from December of 1861 until January of 1862, drowning the state in water and leaving much of the Northern Valley unlivable until the summer months of 1862.
Feb 17, 2016 - On 10 January 1862, the day California's new governor elect, Leland Stanford, was to be inaugurated, a massive flood broke through the ...
January 21, 1862, Page 6 The New York Times Archives. The Pacific slope has been visited by the most disastrous flood that has occurred since its settlement ...
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Winter 1991. Number4. Th.e Great California Flood of 1861-1862 by John D. Newbold. Introduction. In 1861-1862 the California Gold Rush was twelve years old ...
Apr 23, 2018 - The 1862 flood that went down as the worst washout in modern California history, transforming the Central Valley into a raging sea and stealing ...
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