Northern California Flooding - Before and After
Truckee River: Before and after January 2017 storms. The top photo was taken in late 2016. The bottom photo was taken in January 2017 after heavy rain. Photo Credit: Julie Ryan Brooks
The rainfall totals from around Northern California for early January are staggering.
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In Downieville, where the Yuba River gushed with heavy flow all week, some 23 inches of rain were recorded in the past seven days.
The super soakings have filled reservoirs that were mere mud puddles, their cracked lake beds once exposed at the height of the drought that plagued the state for five-plus years and still persists in many regions, especially in Southern California.
The reservoirs in Northern California have gained some million acres of storage in the past seven days, Michael Anderson, a climatologist with the California Department of Water Resources estimates. And total surface storage for the state is roughly 97 percent of average, with the the total storage for the largest reservoirs being at 111 percent of normal.