The 1861-62 flood was a seminal moment in California history ... Mountain View, Cupertino, San Jose and Palo Alto, could be flooded. So could areas of San Mateo and Alameda counties, including ...

But emerging science demonstrates that floods of even greater magnitude occurred every 100 to 200 years in California ... San Francisco Bay, he was back in the city, on a break. In a November 1861 ...

A 43-day storm that began in December 1861 ... California’s legislature, unable to function in the submerged city, finally gave up and moved to San Francisco on January 22, to wait out the floods.

Geologists have drilled/core-sampled San Francisco Bay, plus lake and marsh sediments throughout California, to positively identify the stream gravels deposited by the 1861/62 flood. Drilling ...

The state capital was temporarily moved to San Francisco ... even in “sunny” Southern California. The “Great Flood” of 1861-62 was followed by the “Great Drought” of 1863-65.

Judge A.H. BARDY was arrested in Sacramento last evening, by the Chief of Police of San Francisco ... and the damage done by the flood is estimated by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And the Great Flood of 1862 was also preceded by drought. How bad was the Great Flood of 1862? Intense rainstorms pummeled central California "virtually unabated" from Christmas Eve 1861 until ...