E32 La Gran Inundación de 1862
When the rain began drenching the California landscape in December 1861, none of the state’s 500,000 residents could have imagined the devastation that was about to strike the region. Just a few months earlier, the farmers and ranchers of California had been praying for rain to spare their parched land from the two previous decades of exceptionally dry weather. The Great Flood of 1862 began in late November 1861, when early winter storms dropped heavy snow in the higher elevations of Northern...