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  2. 2017 California floods - Wikipedia

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    Flooding in 2017 affected parts of California in the first half of the year. Northern California saw its wettest winter in almost a century, breaking the record set in 1982–83. [6] The same storm systems also flooded parts of western Nevada and southern Oregon. The damage was estimated at $1.55 billion ($1,926,663,046 today [4] ), [3 ...

  3. Tubbs Fire - Wikipedia

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    The Tubbs Fire was a wildfire in Northern California during October 2017. At the time, the Tubbs Fire was the most destructive wildfire in California history, [7] [1] burning parts of Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties, inflicting its greatest losses in the city of Santa Rosa. Its destructiveness was surpassed only a year later by the Camp Fire of ...

  4. 2017 California wildfires - Wikipedia

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    In terms of property damage, 2017 was the most destructive wildfire season on record in California at the time, surpassed by only the 2018 season and the 2020 season, with a total of 9,560 fires burning 1,548,429 acres (6,266.27 km 2) of land, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, including five of the 20 most destructive wildland-urban interface fires in the ...

  5. October 2017 Northern California wildfires - Wikipedia

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    The October 2017 Northern California wildfires, also known as the Northern California firestorm, North Bay Fires, and the Wine Country Fires [7] were a series of 250 wildfires that started burning across the state of California, United States, beginning in early October. Twenty-one became major fires that burned at least 245,000 acres (99,148 ha).

  6. Poll reveals shocking number of relationships that ended ...

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    Sixteen percent said they have stopped talking to a family member or friend because of the election - up marginally from 15 percent. That edged higher, to 22 percent, among those who voted for ...

  7. List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, they were sentenced to pay more than US$292,000 in legal fees. The case was reopened again in 2021, but closed again in January 2022, with the Lowndes County Sheriff finding his death to be an accident when re-reviewing some 17 boxes of evidence and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's findings. James Campbell 14 January 2013

  8. Why some of California's most outdoorsy people are moving to ...

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    May 22, 2024 at 3:00 AM. Alex Honnold is among the elite outdoor athletes drawn to Las Vegas by a geographic diversity he says makes world-class climbing easily accessible year-round. For many ...

  9. 2011–2017 California drought - Wikipedia

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    The 2011–2017 California drought persisted from December 2011 to March 2017 [1] and consisted of the driest period in California 's recorded history, late 2011 through 2014. [2] The drought wiped out 102 million trees from 2011 to 2016, 62 million of those during 2016 alone. [3] The cause of the drought was attributed to a ridge of high ...