Significant changes have been made to drainage systems since historic New Years flood 25 years ago
On January 1, 1997, a massive storm ripped through Northern Nevada and Northern California, causing intense flooding subsequently causing major highways and roads to collapse and burying entire cities (like Reno and Sparks) in a knee-deep high pond of water. Ask anyone around at that time, and they’ll tell you the story of that historic storm and the damage it caused. Now 25 years later, at the start of 2022, we’ve had some big storms come through … But nothing compares to the storm of January 1997.