[Originally posted January 2016]
The San Diego public needs to see these photos – taken over 100 years ago in January 1916 during the Great Floods of the Rainmaker. (Most of these photos are from the San Diego Historical Society.)
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Cool pics!
Always love these historical posts, regardless of era…
Gets us ready for the next wave of El Nino storms.
Something about the Rainmaker of 1916. https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1970/january/hatfield/
doesn’t look like much was learned of mission valley flooding back then…….just drive through it!