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California's Great Flood of 1862


Great Flood of 1862 - Wikipedia

The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of California, Oregon, and Nevada, inundating the western United States and portions ...

The Great Flood of 1862 - California Historical Society

It is crucial to remember the story of the Great Flood of 1862, which is the most destructive flood in California's history to date.

California's Great Flood of 1862 | Aon Edge

What Caused the Great Flood of 1862? · 4,000 people died · 1/3 of property was destroyed · 200,000 heads of cattle, or 25% of the state's total, wiped out · The ...

Recreating the Great Flood of 1862 - Physical Sciences Laboratory

People use rowboats to navigate a flooded Sacramento street. Floodwaters in Sacramento, California in January 1862. Courtesy: California State Library ...

Great California Flood of 1862 - YouTube

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How bad was California's 'Great Flood' of 1862? It was a torrent of ...

The Great Flood of 1862, seemingly lost in time, is the answer to the question: What was the most destructive flood in California history?

Great Flood of 1862 - Aon Edge

The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest recorded flood in the history of California, Nevada, and Oregon.

California's Super Flood - EarthDate

On January 10, 1862, the levees around Sacramento broke, flooding the city and forcing the newly elected governor, Leland Stanford, to travel by rowboat to the ...

The deadly 1862 flood that wiped out and reshaped California

In early December 1861, upwards of 15 feet of snow fell in California's eastern mountains. What followed, modern National Oceanic and ...

Off the Beaten Path | Episode 3: The California Super Flood | PBS

On January 18th, 1862 it started to rain in Southern California and did not stop for 43 days. The event dropped an equivalent of 10 feet of rain.

A 43-day atmospheric-river storm in 1861 turned California's Central ...

despite greater scientific understanding, the 1861–1862 floods are all but ... It appears that an atmospheric-river megastorm—California's “Other Big One”—.

The other 'big one': How a megaflood could swamp California's ...

And their warnings became realized when Great Flood of 1861-62 hit. A six-week onslaught of at least 10 powerful Pacific storms in December and ...

California's History of Large Storms & Floods | U.S. Geological Survey

The Great Storm of 1861-1862, often referred to as the Great Flood of 1862, was a series of intense storms that battered California for several weeks. The event ...

California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe

The only megaflood to strike the American West in recent history occurred during the winter of 1861-62. California bore the brunt of the damage.

The Great Flood of 1862 left devastation in its path across the state

The Great Flood of 1862 began in late November 1861, when early winter storms dropped heavy snow in the higher elevations of Northern California ...

Two Lost Towns: Revisiting the Great Flood of 1862

The flood that year was the largest in the recorded history of the state, a series of storms that inundated wide expanses of southern, central, ...

(PDF) California Washed Away: The Great Flood of 1862

The 1861-1862 storms caused record or near-record flooding events across the state, from Eureka and Humboldt counties in the northwest, all the way to Orange ...

Historical photos of California's biggest floods dating back to 1862

Feeling storm fatigue? You're not alone · The Great California Flood of 1861-1862 was a series of four floods from December 9, 1861, Dec. · The ...

The Next Great California Flood - Alta Journal

The deluge of 1862 turned the Central Valley into a lake and destroyed nearly every bridge in the region. Spurred by climate change, ...

California 'megaflood': The Great Flood of 1862 could repeat itself

A disastrous 'megaflood' flood in sunny and dry California? It's happened before · New research suggests climate change increases the likelihood ...


The Luck of Roaring Camp

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"The Luck of Roaring Camp" is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence.

1997 California New Years Floods

The 1997 California New Years Floods resulted from a series of winter storms, from December 26 to January 3 of 1997, fed with tropical moisture by an atmospheric river.