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Our projects for HIST-370, UNR, Fall 2017 have been selected by the students from a list provided by our professor. Yours truly has selected to research and prepare an article concerning the Reno, Nevada 1997 Flood. As there are no references to a Wikipedia article in any combination of the various forms of the above four word title the article title will be as indicated in bold. Research has begun with interrogating the article resources at the UNR library, the City of Reno, the City of Sparks, the County of Washoe, the Reno-Gazette Journal, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (both Washoe, NV and Sacramento, CA offices), and the Truckee-Carson Water Conservation District. Other suggestions are most appreciated!Tjtaber (talk) 23:16, 12 November 2017 (UTC) Edited word usage.Tjtaber (talk) 23:18, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

January 1997 brought disaster to the City of Reno, Nevada. During November and to mid-December of 1996 the Sierra Nevada mountains, to the west of Reno, were being blessed by above normal snow fall. Snow had been deposited from the mountain peeks to the Valley floor. A warm weather storm coming from the tropics changed the entire comfortable winter weather picture for the residents of Reno, Sparks and other areas through the Truckee River basin.Tjtaber (talk) 19:20, 18 November 2017 (UTC)2602:306:BDCD:2820:D898:8906:3C60:C219 (talk) 19:00, 18 November 2017 (UTC)2602:306:BDCD:2820:FD53:74E4:CEEE:99AF (talk) 18:54, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

During December of 1996 two heavy snow events,developing out of the usual winter Alaskan storm tracks, deposited above average snow falls providing a blanket of deep snow from the Sierra Nevada mountain peeks to the Truckee Meadows Valley encompassing the Truckee River basin from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake traversing Truckee, CA continuing eastward through Reno and Sparks, NV. Commencing in late December and continuing into the New Year (1997) an unusual southern storm track coming from the tropic area of Hawaii (a Pineapple Express) dropped a copus amount of warm rain on the Sierra Mountains nearly removing all of the aforementioned snow pack from 7,000 feet down to the Truckee Meadows Valley floor (4411 feet at the Reno-Tahoe Airport). Previous above average moisture had saturated the soil and high snow pack moisture prevented additional water capture above the 7,000 foot level thus nearly all of the rain plus the snow melt careened down the mountain sides into Truckee River tributaries and through Truckee, Reno and Sparks. This torrent of water exceeded the controlled water release points and the containment ability of the Truckee River. Additional water from the Galena Creek and Washoe Lake drainage exacerbated the problem in Sparks as the water of Steamboat Creek reached the confluence with the Truckee River near Vista Blvd.Tjtaber (talk) 23:22, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

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Boynton Slough - 2602:306:BDCD:2820:FD53:74E4:CEEE:99AF (talk) 18:54, 22 November 2017 (UTC)