Show This H Happened pp ne When en Sun Left ne State 1 i IJ i I H. H r fi Ei ti r w it I 1 r. r r w 1 v f r i 4 s AFTER GALE SWEPT THROUGH CALIFORNIA CAPITOL GROUNDS Statehouse at Sacramento glimpsed through tangled branches of trees uprooted by storm Storm StOl Lashes aS California nia For Consecutive Day SAN FRANCISCO Feb 11 it AP Rain AP Rain and snow deluged deluge d northern California today for the sixteenth consecutive day of storms storm s which have caused eight deaths an estimated millions of dollars dollars' damage and shattered weather bureau records I It was the longest rainy period in the more than half century that records have been kept here But it failed to dampen the ardor of tourist tourist tourist tour tour- bureaus in inviting all America to visit sunny California What's left of California's sunshine sunshine sunshine sun sun- shine has become the exclusive property of Los Angeles and its environs temporarily San Franciscans Franciscans Franciscans Fran Fran- hope The weather usually usual usual- ly a a. pleasant topic of conversation has residents of the northern half I of the state where floods threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened asking When will it end endMost Most of the deaths and virtually all of the damage heaviest in agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural areas were caused by Wednesdays Wednesday's Wednesdays Wednesday's Wednesdays Wednesday's Wed Wed- winds which blew over California with the force of a hurricane hurri hurri- cane Came From North The gale formed off the California California Califor Califor- nia coast but most of the rains came originally from the Aleutian Islands in the north Pacific ocean birthplace of the majority of western western western west west- ern Ameri Americas America's as a.'s storms In the last 15 days storms have brought more than 11 inches of rain to Eureka nearly nine inches to Redding bothin both bothin in far northern California and about five inches to San Francisco Francisc o and Los Angeles San Francisco weather bureau officials officials of of- I said the current storm ha had d broken all weather bureau records record s for this region as to length There Ther e was a day 15 period of stormy days day s in February 1936 In 1884 a similar similar simi simi- lar period lasted for 14 consecutive e days Falling trees collapsing buildings building s and an ocean drowning accounted d for five of the eight deaths during Wednesdays Wednesday's high winds Yesterday the body of Mary Hays Hay was found beneath her wind leveled a chicken house near Bakersfield At Modesto Scotty McRae 44 became the seventh known victim m when he drowned in the Tuolumne river after his rowboat capsized Lineman Dies The eighth death attributed to the storm was that of Ralph H H. Gleason Gleason Gleason Glea- Glea son 35 tel telephone phone company lineman He died yesterday of exhaustion brought on by his efforts to repair telephone lines torn down by the wind in the mountains near Grass valley |