Excerpt from California High Water, 1971-1972 The water year 1971-72 was dry; California received only 50 percent of normal annual precipitation. By the end of May, the water year had been established as the driest of record at Red Bluff; the second driest near Folsom Dam, Fresno, and Bakersfield; and the third driest near Shasta Dam. While most of the State underwent one of the driest seasons of record, the Smith River Basin experienced the second and third highest flood stages of record. Flood producing storms hit the north coastal part of the State from January 18 to 27 and from February 22 to March 3. A significant storm in the south coastal area between December 22 and 28 caused local flooding and mudslides. Flows in Carpinteria Creek on the coast of Santa Barbara County exceeded the previous record flood flows of January 1969. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.