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Showing posts with label River floods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label River floods. Show all posts
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Worried About Being Ready for the Big Storm? Let's Have a Practice Flood! The Tuolumne River Today

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January 2016, one year ago Okay, this is a bit odd. There is a lot of news about the coming atmospheric storm that will strike Californi...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Floods Coming This Week May Rival 1997: Predictions at Yosemite Valley

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National Park Service Photograph This weekend's storm, if it lives up to predictions, may be one for the history books. Present pro...

Coming California Storm is Reminiscent of Flooding Events Past

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Source: Washington Post We are waiting for the arrival of two intense storms over the course of the next week, a pair of "atmosphe...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Memories of Floods Past: The 1997 New Year's Day Flood in the Sierra Nevada

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There is a very strange looking meadow in the Sierra Nevada foothills 700 feet above the Tuolumne River. Bedrock around here is gener...
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I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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