It is currently witnessing the remarkable rebirth of Tulare Lake, once the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi. The near-record rainfall in California is already transforming the landscape here and that is before the big melt begins.Ĭorcoran is a town of 25,000 people and home to some of America's most productive farmland, with an agricultural industry worth $2bn (£1.6bn). In California's central valley, the snow-capped mountains, far in the distance, are a spectre of doom. Image: Houses have been covered in unprecedented snowfall, but the coming melt could devastate the area too
The expectation is that once this snow starts to melt, it will send torrents of water gushing downstream.
It is a slow motion disaster and it's not just the people of Mammoth who are living in fear. There's nowhere for this water to go when it does start to melt," he says, "As soon as it goes one or two degrees above freezing at night, then the flooding will begin." "This is just over 20,000 gallons of water and that's only my little roof. He points to the snow piled on top of his garage. Pence 'gives evidence for seven hours' about Trump and Capitol riots We kept screaming, 'help us' but nobody cut the damn head off."īut Steve, like everyone here, knows that this is a catastrophe in two parts and the worst is, likely, yet to come. "People here have been living in darkness for months," he says, "it's like being squeezed by an anaconda. In his own home, he has dug a path to allow him to open his back door but inside it is dark 24 hours a day because the snow is so tightly packed against the windows. Image: 'Bear Whisperer' Steve Searles speaks to Sky News' Martha Kelner
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