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The Great Flood of 1862
December 1861 – January 1862
Sacramento, California
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Forty-three days of rain turned the Central Valley into an inland sea 300 miles long, drowning perhaps a third of California's cattle and bankrupting the state. Governor Leland Stanford was rowed to his own inauguration and had to climb into the mansion through a second-storey window.
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