The most common story I heard about the 1950s levee breach in Marysville proper was that everyone thought the levee was going to break in Yuba City (the two cities are on opposite sides of the river). Car dealers moved their new cars from YC to Marysville. Everyone evacuated YC. Then the levee broke in Marysville. Oy.
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I have it backwards – everyone evacuated ppl/cars to YC from Marysville in 1955…then the levee broke in YC. I should have remembered that, I’ve been in homes where the 1955 water line is still visible in closets in homes in YC. At the top of the closet.
