Some years these cloudbursts are more frequent than others, just like every winter is different. A particular cloudburst of July 16, 1963 was recorded by Susanville resident George Farris. On that afternoon, as Farris duly noted three inches of rain fell upon Susanville in a one hour period. Thankfully, George was a good record keeper. Up until 1969, weather records were duly noted, high, low and precipitation at the Lassen County Courthouse. When George’s son, Calvin, sent me the scanned photograph, I went to those weather county weather logs, only to find that whoever was on duty to record the same, there was a two week gap. However, on July 28, 1963, the Lassen Advocate newspaper reported George’s findings and published the above photogaph.

Tim