Other than an earthquake, a good shaker hit Vacaville and Winters around the turn of the century, what should we be preparing for here in the Sacramento Area?
A flood is the most likely disaster to occur in our area I would guess. With no Auburn Dam to protect Sacramento, we are tempting fate every winter and spring. Sacramento is surrounded by levees, if they fail, a few hundred thousand people will be sitting on their rooftops. Maybe the video of what a city surrounded by levees looks like when those levees fail will make people think.
The though of some rattlesnakes and birds having to move out of the Auburn Ravine isn't such a big sacrifice to make when looking at the cost in human lives and property that the Auburn Dam could save. Just remember, when helicopters are picking folks off rooftops in mid-town Sacramento, the rest of America will be watching on the news wondering why those people didn't build the Auburn dam, it would have saved them.
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