Well, perhaps Redding might be hyperbole, but during the Great California Flood of 1862 riverboats traveled between any point of the southern San Joaquin Valley to Sacramento in a straight line...
(Normally impossible)
Once upon a time there was Laguna de Tache of the southern San Joaquin Valley.
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/bring-back-lake-tulare/