I'm not sure which is worse for society, constant advertising, or constant news fear mongering, or constant news fear mongering with advertising! I'd like to see both go away.
"modeled on the Great Flood of 1862, which also made a lake of the Central Valley". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
The failure of the Oroville Dam spillway in 2017 and the hasty evacuation of home downstream was a real crisis event. Today Oroville is at 100% capacity [1] but snowpack seems to have been greatly reduced from the peak this year [2]. One could easily visualize a scenario where a rapid warming in April of this year could have caused snow melt to overwhelm the reservior flood storage capacity.
[1] https://engaging-data.com/ca-reservoir-dashboard/
[2] https://engaging-data.com/california-reservoirs-and-snowpack...