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The Christmas flood of 1964 was a major flood in the United States' Pacific Northwest and some of Northern ... and caused $100 million in damage in Humboldt County, ...
South Fork is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States. In 1955 South Fork was a town of 300 inhabitants. [1] The town was devastated by the Christmas flood of 1964 which destroyed 10 houses and the station building. [2]
A higher peak flow of 78,700 cubic feet per second (2,230 m 3 /s), on 22 December 1964, before the stream gauge was in place, was determined using flood stage height data and floodmark measurements. The minimum discharge recorded by this gauge was 7.3 cubic feet per second (0.21 m 3 /s) on 4 August 1977.
Weott is a unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. [2] ... The 1964 flood was famously described by Governor Edmund Brown as a "thousand-year flood ...
The Christmas flood of 1964 removed all the CCC buildings, mud and debris slides from clear cut slopes above Bull Creek resulted in massive damages for areas downstream. [8] Almost 30 feet (9.1 m) of sand and gravel were deposited in the creek in this flood event, and the same bridge which was buried in 1955, was again covered in gravel.
Jun. 23—Sixty years ago the waters rose and rose until they became the largest flood in Flathead County's recorded history. When torrential rains poured on top of a heavy mountain snowpack on ...
The catastrophic Christmas flood of 1964 destroyed 100 miles (160 km) of the railroad in Northern California, including three bridges over the Eel River, and permanently changed the topography of the area. The line was closed for 177 days while 850 men rebuilt the railroad through the Eel River canyon. The line was reopened on 16 June 1965. [11]
Between 1850 and 2004, 51 credible tsunamis were recorded in San Francisco Bay, according to 2004 research led by Lori Dengler, a professor emeritus at Cal Poly Humboldt.