2005 - FEMA

and northern California from December 26, 1996 through January 3, 1997, with the heaviest and warmest rains on New Year's Eve/Day. Snow levels were above 10,000 feet. Several towns were inundated. Three-hundred square miles were flooded, including the Yosemite Valley, which flooded for the first time since 1861-62. ................
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