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‘An amazingly sad time’: Survivors recall 60 years since the catastrophic 1964 Christmas flood

Summary by Times-Standard
It started on Dec. 21, 1964, in Humboldt County. A warm wet system dumped inches and inches of rain locally. Rivers and creeks rose. And the flooding began. It didn’t stop until January 1965. Linda Shapeero, who spent most of her life in Humboldt County, was 15 years old and living in Rio Dell in 1964. She was ill with rheumatic fever and the flood knocked out the electricity at her house. “Our home wasn’t flooded, but it was real cold, and so m…
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