Thousands of #CentralValley residents told to leave homes ahead of another rain onslaught
MARCH 19, 2023
#news #AtmosphericRiver #flood #CAwx #CAweather #CentralCalifornia #SierraFoothills #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #Water
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@peeppeepcircus Allensworth is an unincorporated community in Tulare County, California. Established by Allen Allensworth in 1908, the town was the first in California to be founded, financed, and governed by African-Americans. The original townsite is designated as Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. Wikipedia
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what's amazing in it history, is how Allensworth's white neighbors withheld water from it in order to starve out a historic and thriving African-American community right out of existence. weaponized water + racism = part of the ugly history and legacy of #centralcalifornia and #centralvalley that still happens to this day. i.e. tooleville.
also, the farmer who just illegally cut a levee in order to flood Allensworth instead of whatever-his-stupid-farm-is is that ugly.