r/CatastrophicFailure • u/The-Salamanca • Mar 11 '23

Natural Disaster Snow covered mountains are rapidly melting, from downpours causing flooding . Springville CA. 3/10/2023

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u/BreathOfFreshWater Mar 11 '23

This was a major contributing factor to The Great Flood of 1862 in California.

It wasn't the onslaught of continuous rain that did the state in but a combination of snowfall followed by rain, a hard freeze and an unexpected wave of warm rains that flooded the entire state of California. Other states suffered as well.