Dealing with a shortage of water is something state residents have been doing for hundreds of years.
“If anything, the San Bernardino Valley was over-endowed with water. The area north of present-day Baseline, particularly between A and D streets, had such a high water level that ponds were visible amid the tule swamplands and dense willow thickets.”
Estimates from the USGS show this series of storms produced precipitation in many places that exceeded levels experienced on average only once every 500 to 1,000 years. According to Redlands historian Tom Atchley, the farmers migrating to California were not prepared for prolonged droughts, “Farmers coming from the East Coast believed that rainfall here would be slightly less than in the east, but it would still be enough to support their crops. They were beside themselves when Big Bear Lake dried up in 1899.”
The Dust Bowl drove Californians to begin making extraordinary investments in water infrastructure, including the Central Valley Project. This project brought water from Northern California to the parched San Joaquin Valley via a complex system of reservoirs and aqueducts. Hatfield’s method to create rain was to build a series of wooden towers where he would burn a secret concoction of chemicals that he said caused rain clouds to form, and eventually bring rain. The community didn’t raise enough funds to pay Hatfield, and he went back to selling sewing machines in Glendale.
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