22nd October
2010
“A big rain is coming,” predicted Henry Cooper, Escondido’s celebrated, amateur weather prognosticator. The Escondido Weather Prophet, as he was known, spoke in early February 1927, predicting a major storm for later in the month. “We shall have copious rains all along the coast,” Cooper declared, “with assured runoff from a heavy mantle of snow in the mountains.”
Read the story of one of San Diego’s biggest rain years: the Flood of 1927.
Mission Valley under water, Feb. 1927.
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