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Heavy rain on New Year’s Eve 2022 flooded California near San Francisco and Sacramento.

Flooding is visible in the false-color satellite image from Jan. 1, 2023 (right), with water in blue, compared to the image from Dec. 16, 2022 (left).

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Floodwater Inundates North-Central California

Heavy rain and levee breaches triggered flooding in parts of Sacramento and the Bay Area.
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CBells
CBells
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I hope it rains for the next 6 months. And then Newsom keeps the drought emergency in place.
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Peat Bog
Peat Bog
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Looks like Sacramento and Stockton are more vulnerable to storm surges and flooding than coastal areas on these maps.
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George William Herbert
George William Herbert
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We’re not close now, but shades of the 1861 Central Valley floods that inundated Sacramento and Stockton and pretty much everything else.

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