One hundred and sixty years ago, the biggest flood in modern history wiped out California: 4,000 dead, one-third of all property destroyed, a quarter of the state’s 800,000 cattle drowned or ...

California has experienced severe floods throughout the 20th Century, including in 1969, 1986, and 1997. But a flood from farther in the past – the Great Flood of 1862 – is being eyed by ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The 1862 flood that went down as the worst washout in modern California history, transforming the Central Valley into a raging sea and stealing countless lives and property, is ...

The Great Flood of 1862 came after 30 consecutive days of rain that poured 10 feet (3m) of rain and snow on California over a period of 43 days. Such was the power of the rainfall that it changed ...