Excerpt from California Highways and Public Works, Vol. 35: January-February 1956 In addition, damage to county roads has been estimated at approximately and to city streets at some for an over - all total of public road damage in excess of Approximately is required for emergency repairs - making it pos sible to reopen roads to tralhe - while the balance is the estimated cost of rebuilding the damaged facilities for permanent use. Practically all major north-south highways in the area were at one time or another closed by flooding, te quiring the detouring of through traffic via circuitous routes which in some cases were later also engulfed by the spreading flood water. All transcontinental routes over the Sierra Nevada Range, as well as major east west laterals through the Coast Range north of San Francisco, were blocked for a time by slides, high water, wash outs or bridge damage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.