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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (32245)	9/2/2017 12:28:56 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 356551

"Those people living in flood prone places" This can happen again.In fact, it could have happened last year, except the reservoirs were at historic lows going into the rainy season. California superstorm would be costliest US disaster The storm simulation U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists termed "ARkStorm -- or "atmospheric river storm" -- is patterned after the U.S. West Coast storms that devastated California in 1861-62. The storms lasted for 45 days, forming lakes in the Mojave Desert and the Los Angeles Basin. California was left bankrupt after the storms wiped out nearly a third of the state's taxable land, according to the USGS. Great Flood of 1862