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8/15/2019 California Floods 1862 and 1964
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California Flood
1964(Reference to Flood of 1862)Cameron Chugg, Jake Mcean, !ndre" Miller, #liana Ramire$
%une$, Cla& Rigg', hitne& cott
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*ntroduction
+he 1964 ood in California"a' located at the outhFork of the #el Ri-er.
+hi' ood occurred rightaround Chri'tma' timealmo't e/actl& 9 &ear' aftera ood occurred at the 'ame'0ot.
uring the Ci-il arCalifornia recorded the mo'tde-a'tating recorded oodin their 'tate hi'tor& from18611862.
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3ocation
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ate5 ecemer of1964
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7o" ig
The published peak dischargedetermined by rating-curveextension was 752,000 ft!sat a stage of 72"0 ft andshould be rated poor
#rainage area was ,$$s%uare miles
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+en to"n' "ereoliterated "ith do$en'of other' damaged at
lea't 2: ridge' "erede'tro&ed, and 'ome,including Miranda andouth Fork, "ere ne-erreuilt.;
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Mea'urement'
The deepest &ood waterswere nearly 70 feet '2$m( above the normal riverlevel"
)n $*+, a severeineapple .xpress event,known as the /hristmas&ood of $*+, broughtheavy rains to coastalnorthern /alifornia" ver
2$ inches of rain wasrecorded in a 1 hourperiod"
.el reached a peak of*+,000 cu ft"!s
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>h&'ical Feature'
+he clear cutting onthe 'lo0e' ao-e ullcreek are likel& the
feature alteration thatled to the demi'e ofthe 'lo0e and cau'ingthe mo't damageduring the ood.
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>roce''e'
The clear cutting of theslopes led to the damageof the two streamcon&uence" storms
contributed to the &oodwaters" /rest occurred on#ecember 2" nstable airmasses and highsouthwest winds alsoadded to the already
degrading situation" 3peak discharge of 752,000ft!sec occurred with agage height of 72 feetfrom &ood banks"
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#?ect'
The town of 4eott waswashed away, * otherswere destroyed withdoens of others that got
damaged
4ater reached recordbreaking heights
6evere damage to homes,
buildings, and streets
)ts hard to tell how manypeople died because theevent covered such largeregions
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>re-iou' and u'e@uent #-ent'
Flood "a' cau'e &three large 'torm' incentral Aregon
#el ri-er "a' notkno"n to ha-eooded efore 19BB
ecau'e it "a' 'uch a-a't e-ent, 'omemud'lide' occurred
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Factor' +hat Ma& 7a-e *ncrea'edor ecrea'ed *nten'it&
8ot only did thewater from the&ood a9ect theoutcome of the
homes andbuildingsdamage, butalso the amountof sediment-many debris androcks andtimber werecarried in the
&ow of water
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*ntere'ting cientic Fact'
D3and'lide', "a'hout', and
'treamed and ank ero'ion
contriuted to the
'edimentation and further
com0ounded the ood"ater
damage.E
D+he 'e-ere ooding in 1964
did not relate to a 'ingle 'torm,
ut rather a 'erie' of 'torm'
et"een ecemer 19, 1964,
and Januar&
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#conomic *m0act'
+he ood cau'ed 2
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Ca'ualtie'
2 people died during
the storms"
counties in the
8orthern /alifornia
region were declared as
disaster areas"
;.very single stream
gauge on the .el
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7i'torical *m0act'
!ll home' in lo"erarea "ere "a'heda"a&. hen re
uilding, all the ne"home' "ere uilt u0on the hill, thi'changing the locationof re'idence for future
0o'terit& o00o'ed tothe 0a't location"here generation'li-ed 0re-iou'l&.
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*ntere'ting Fact'
This &ood is called the ;The /hristmas&ood of $*+= because it took placebetween #ecember $1, $*+ and
>anuary 7, $*+5, spanning the/hristmas holiday"
The combination of heavy rain,melting snow, and froen groundcaused extreme runo9, erosion and&ooding"
;)t was a classic rain-on-snow event,=said ?arc 6tewart a hydrologist forthe "6" @eological 6urvey" ;)naddition to the rain, there werealready several inches of water fromthe melting snow, so it was a big
runo9 event across a wide area"= The &ood caused record-breaking
peak stream&ows, transported largeamounts of sediment, and in&ictedextensive &ood damage" Aowever, inmany areas storage in reservoirs andoperation of &ood-control facilitiesprevented far greater damage"
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#&e"itne'' !ccount
hirle& Fo'ter thought 'he "a'u'ed to ood' ecau'e 'he gre"u0 on the Ru''ian Ri-er and the&had a DoodE e-er& "inter. *n
1964, hirle& and her hu'and'tarted to 'et u0 their r't realhome. +he& 0lanned to head'outh to '0end Chri'tma' "ithMikeH' famil& on Frida&, ut the&had to 'ta& until aturda& nightecau'e Mike "a' 'cheduled to
cha0erone a dance. +he rain thatcame Frida& night "a' -er&hea-&. +he ri-er 'tarted to ri'eand & noon the ne/t da&e-er&one 'tarted to e a itconcerned. +he& 0ut 'omeim0ortant thing' in the ack oftheir truck Iu't in ca'e the&needed to lea-e in a hurr .
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#&e"itne'' !ccount
Their pasture was becoming a lakeand when the water suddenly burstthrough a crack between the &oorand the wall in their home, theystarted getting more of their things
out of the house" They spent thatnight at their landlords home andwent to sleep thinking that thewater was going to drop" The nextmorning, they found that alandslide had careened down thehill and almost completely buriedthe home" 6he remembers sitting
on a rock pile in the middle of theliving room cleaning pots and pansthat were dug out of the kitchen"3fter everything that happened,she was amaed that they actuallystayed in Aumboldt /ounty and at6outh Bork with the experience thatthey had"
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Conclu'ion
+hi' ood, "hich ha00ened in ecemer of1964, "a' di'a'trou' and "a' rought on& o-er 21 inche' of rain recorded in a 48hour 0eriod. +en to"n' "ere oliterated
"ith do$en' of other' damaged at lea't2: ridge' "ere de'tro&ed, and 'ome "erene-er reuilt. +he hea-& damage "a' duenot onl& to the "ater, ut to the hugeamount of 'ediment and deri' '"e0tdo"n the ri-er, including million' of oardfeet of timer. +he drainage area "a'
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Reference'
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