"Wm B. Richardson 1938 59 General Account WALL OF EARTH, SANDBAGS STOPS RIVER TORRENT From Porterville Evening Recorder Feb ?, 1937. River Sunday Within Foot of High Water Mark Reached in Last Week's Flood Big Run-Off Pours Down Deer Creek Following Heavy Rain Late Saturday Night The excess water that came down Tule river Sunday, following the heavy rains of the night be- fore, beat in vain at the new dam that blocked the way down the channel washed from the river to Porter slough the week before. The slough carried only a small head of water Sunday morning. More Damage at Park More damage at Bartlett park re- sulted from the high water or small flood of Sunday morning. Quite a bit of the park was inundated once more, and there was a strong current. It did not last long, however. One of the dressing rooms from the apartment houses at Bartlett park not been damned up, a flood riv- alling the previous torrent would have poured into the slough and swept through Porterville. Deer Creek High Heavy rains Saturday night in the Deer Creek watershed brought that stream up to as high a mark as it reached last week, a foaming tor- rent pouring under the highway bridge south of Porterville all day Sunday. The creek is still carrying an unusually heavy head of water, as is Tule river. Rains Pass Foot Mark Total precipitation in the storm that started Saturday afternoon reached .91 of an inch by this morn- ing, and the rainfall total for the season to date is now 12.04 inches, one of the heaviest winter precipita- tions in the history of the district, to the middle of February. was lifted from its foundation and moved a short distance where it be- came anchored against some trees. While there is quite a bit of damage there resulting from the two floods, none of it will cost very much money to repair. Olive Flooded Again A portion of the Olive street ex- tension highway was flooded again Sunday with a continuous stream running over it all day. Danger signs were put up but autoists were able to continue by observing the land- marks. A piece of the cement high- way was washed away, making the damage a little more severe than re- sulted from the flood of February 6th. A small waterfall formed at the place where the cement broke away.