And I've lived in California pretty much since 1952 except for my senior year in High School at a private school in Santa Fe, New Mexico at around 7000 feet elevation and a couple of years along the way on Maui and the big Island of Hawaii. So, this is about as unusual as it gets regarding rain. But, I have seen much worse flooding in the state than we have now as well as houses falling off of cliffs a lot from erosion of cliffs from big waves and houses destroyed more from big waves coming into their living rooms in the 1990s. Also, it might be important to note that in the 1980s and 1990s there were a lot of times when the road was never opened above Bunny Flats because the snow never melted out and I think the winter of 1992 might have been one of those times because there were 12 feet of snow in the city of mt. Shasta. I remember driving up there because I had moved away the previous fall and I was visiting friends and there was literally no place to park and roofs were collapsing a lot on people, especially if they were older and couldn't get anyone to shovel the snow off their roofs then. So, if you wanted a parking place you had to shovel 12 feet of snow yourself and make one and then you had to guard your parking place from anyone else wanting to use it too after all that work. The other problem was that even if you did find a way to get up on your roof in 12 feet of snow there was no place to shovel your snow because 12 feet is higher than most 1 story buildings. So, because of this many roofs collapsed that winter. So, very likely the following spring and summer the road to Panther Meadows and the old Ski Bowl at the end of Everitt Memorial highway never opened past Bunny Flats then either.
The 1970s were a bad drought sort of like the 20 year drought since about the year 2000 AD. So, there were a lot of fires then too. But, they weren't year around fires like we have been experiencing the last few years here in California.
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