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California Floods A String of Pacific storms led to the deaths of at least 11 people and caused more than $300 million in flood damage across the state of California in January 1995. The storms battered much of the state, from the wine country north of San Francisco to the beaches of Malibu in the south, leaving downed power lines, leaking gas lines and hundreds of dead livestock. In Humboldt County, authorities called on the National Guard to help them collect the rotting carcasses of sheep and dairy cattle that floated down the Eel River. Governor Pete Wilson said in his State of the State address, "We've conquered every challenge that Mother Nature could throw our way." Courtesy ofAssociated Press 32