Redding & Virtual Event:

The Flood of 1955 was one of the worst natural disasters in the state’s recorded history, causing an unparalleled level of death and destruction. The amount of rain that fell during successive weather events in August and October of that year was off the charts. The Great Flood lives on in witnesses’ memories, but the events of that year also helped to shape new policies as part of a recovery program that impacts our surroundings to this day.

Brent Colley, the town’s co-historian, talks about the successive weather events that caused the floods, the impact of the calamity on the town and the state, and the aftermath.

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