California's epic snowpack is melting. Here's what to expect

May 9, 2023 at 4:55pm

Nathan Rott & Claire Harbage, NPR

CORCORAN, Calif. — The waters from a long-dry lake, resurrected by epic rains earlier this year, already lap at the levee of this Central Valley town of 22,000 people. A hundred square miles of crops are drowning around it. But the flood that Corcoran City Manager Greg Gatzka is really worried about has yet to come.

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