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Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard | Santa Cruz has seen its share of flooding
Gary Griggs
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A flood on the San Lorenzo River in 1940 looking toward Beach Hill from Ocean View Avenue. (UCSC Library historical photo collection Contributed).
We seem to regularly bounce back and forth between drought and flood on the central coast, and this is the way it always seems to have been. As long as people have lived in the Monterey Bay area, they have experienced both dry years and wet years, and sometimes back-to-back.
As I am writing this on Thursday, we are in the midst of one of our driest winters in years. As of Tuesday, Santa Cruz had received just 3.7 inches of rain for the season (which began Oct. 1), whereas on average we would have been soaked with 16.1 inches. We were at just 23% of normal. By Wednesday afternoon, the first of several major storms had landed on us and raised our yearly total to 4.77 inches, ra ....

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