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Colusa County Fairgrounds redirecting to Orland

Beale AFB is allowing drive thru from Doolittle Gate to Grass Valley gate; also setting up a shelter at the gym - park at Dragon Town for the bus

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html

Beale AFB didn't flood in 1964 or 1955.

The '55 flood was a major part of my family history growing up. In '55 my dad was stacking sandbags at a place called Shanghai Bend just south of Yuba City. The levy let go about 200 yards downstream from where he was. A couple of guys on his crew were lost and he only made it out by hanging on to the hood of a jeep that was carrying about 20 men. How you get 20 men on a jeep I don't know but they managed. My mom was six months pregnant with me and spent the flood at my grandparent's house between Live Oak and Yuba City. There was water all around but it never got above the floor boards.

I remember the Christmas '64 flood. We opened presents in a tent beside a road in the Sutter Buttes that year. Our house never got wet though.

My dad and uncles worked on the dam and the project off and on during the '60s. The project, that sent irrigation water to LA and taxed Northern California residents to help pay for it, was not popular in that part of the state in those days. The one thing they always said though wqs "at least the river will never flood again." Guess that doesn't hold anymore.

I've always had great respect for the Feather river and recommend everyone living near it have the same. Our prayers are with you.