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3 days agoA nightmare storm destroyed a NorCal bridge. 61 years later, cleanup begins.
Higher up in the Sierra Nevada, on the Rubicon River, rain and snowmelt pounded against the Hell Hole Dam. But on the morning of Dec. 23, 1964, the partially built dam burst, releasing a "hurtling wall" of water downstream toward Auburn, where a surge of frothing, fast-moving water took out the Georgetown Bridge on Highway 49, near the confluence of the North Fork and the Middle Fork of the American River.
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