A look back at the New Year’s flood of 1997
Twenty-five years ago in Northern California, the New Year’s flood of 1997 was a catastrophic event in which hundreds of residents were displaced from their homes in Yuba City, Marysville and surrounding areas that left many neighborhoods underwater. Damages of the flood were estimated at $1.8 billion and eight casualties resulted in the disaster, according to reports from KCRA-3. These floods were caused by a winter storm’s intensity, water runoffs, large outflows from reservoirs and levee breaks. However, today the region is more prepared if such a storm were to occur again.
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