California homeowners don’t seem to think much about flood risks with few insured against watery storm damage. My trusty spreadsheet examined flood insurance coverage stats compiled by ...

another flood, California ... THE UNPRECEDENTED INUNDATION OF 1862. THE GREAT VALLEYS BECOME LAKES. THE SPIRITS OF THE PEOPLE RISE STRANGE PHENOMENA. WHAT IS THE DAMAGE? Share full article Feb. 27 ...

Researchers found evidence of two epic Southern California floods that occurred in the last 600 years and were much larger than the Great Flood of 1862.

Later, its dwellings were wiped out during the Great Flood of 1862, still the largest flood in California’s recorded ... to do research — with books, maps and metal detectors — that ...

Powerful storms drenched California last week ... This historical evidence along with the devastating Great Flood of 1862 inspired the original ARkStorm scenario (AR stands for atmospheric ...

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Most of the flood data that form the basis for the design of California’s dams come from the past century, which was an unusually placid period in the state’s weather. Around three decades ago, ...

Somewhere downstream of Folsom Prison, he said, was a reliable high-water mark for the 1862 flood. Because it was so long ago, water authorities didn’t count it as an official peak of record ...

Just last summer, with California still experiencing a years-long drought, a major study warned about the state’s vulnerability to a huge flood similar to one that occurred in 1862. “We find ...