Ghost of D.J. Russell Wrote:
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> AND THEN ... California's Drought ends with a
> MASSIVE 100 YEAR STORM EVENT that washes all those
> condos and round - a - bouts into the Eel River
> !!!
BINGO !
"The vagaries of climate and the preeminent need for agricultural crops to supply the largely self-supporting missions probably dictated that the orchard or food garden (the huerta) would be given preference over the ornamental or pleasure garden (the jardin).
Life at the missions was often difficult, as contemporary records show.
There were droughts in 1800, 1807, and 1809, heavy rains and flooding in 1816-17, drought in 1820-21, and flooding again in 1824-25 and 1827-28. Following a severe drought in the winter of 1828-29, crops were the smallest for the entire period from 1796 to 1834."
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