Flash floods last week in Texas caused the Guadalupe River to rise dramatically, reaching three stories high in just two ...

Deadly floods like those in Texas are rare in California, but climate change-fueled storms could make them more likely, ...

The question arises, can a Texas-like disaster occur here in California? The Bay Area's rain and snow season, October to April, does bring flooding but rarely on the level that occurred in Texas. But ...

Lithograph of K Street in Sacramento depicting the Great Flood of 1862. Kwan paints an extraordinarily detailed and realistic picture of the way water purges the city of most of its inhabitants, its ...

After the Great Flood of 1862, Sacramento elevated its streets and buildings creating a unique underground world still present today.

The Great Flood Terrible Destruction of Property Comparative Losses and Gains. THE UNPRECEDENTED INUNDATION OF 1862. THE GREAT VALLEYS BECOME LAKES. THE SPIRITS OF THE PEOPLE RISE STRANGE PHENOMENA.

THE GREAT FLOOD IN CALIFORNIA.; Great Destruction of Property Damage $10,000,000. Share full article Jan. 21, 1862 The New York Times Archives ...

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.

This historical evidence along with the devastating Great Flood of 1862 inspired the original ARkStorm scenario (AR stands for atmospheric river, “k” for 1,000, not coincidentally invoking the ...

Scientists aren’t sure whether an ARkStorm or weather pattern similar to the 1862 flood will ever hit California, though the scenario is “plausible,” according to Daniel Swain, a climate ...