2017 California floods
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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. The same storm systems
The South Yuba River at Highway 49 floods after heavy rain on January 9, 2017. The flow is about 25,000 cubic feet per second (710 m3/s), more than 40 times the normal rate.
Satellite images of one of the first extratropical cyclones responsible for the flooding (unofficially named "Winter Storm Iras" by The Weather Channel).
Flooding inundates farmland along the Sacramento River outside Colusa, on February 11
View of Oroville Dam's main spillway (center) and emergency spillway (top), February 11, 2017. The large gully to the right of the main spillway was caused by water flowing through its damaged concrete surface.
Puerto Suello Hill Tunnel
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Puerto Suello Tunnel is a quarter-mile long rail tunnel in San Rafael, California. It was constructed in 1879, by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad.
The north portal of the tunnel in December 2019