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by Roseda 25

teacher: Michael La Marr

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Bonus BLOG	05/16
Old Sacramento	04/22
Westminster Woods Poetry	04/15
The Terrible Wave	01/08
California's History	10/23

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5/22	The Terrible Floods and Fires of Old Sacremento
4/24	My Poems
1/31	My Opinion on The Terrible Wave
12/12	California's History
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The Terrible Floods and Fires of Old Sacremento The floods in Old Sacramento were terrible. The floods destroyed the town and flooded the homes. During floods, wealthy citizens used boats to travel, while poor families lived on roofs until the water went down. After many floods, the citizens decided to build a levee around the town, but it didn’t work so well. They raised the town; this took a lot of time and money to do. The owners of homes, businesses, and stores had to pay for their buildings to be raised. Many owners didn’t want to pay all this money just to raise the building. There were huge holes in the sidewalk and at night people were getting hurt. There was one incident where someone fell into a hole because the owner didn’t raise the sidewalk. The owner was arrested, and was let out right away. Floods weren’t the only problems in Old Sacramento; fires caused problems too.

Many terrible fires had happened in Old Sacramento. Oil lit lamps in the town caused most fires in Old Sacramento. There weren’t really any fire stations in the town. There were just groups of 14 volunteers that wanted an article in the paper. Sometimes when a fire happened, two stations ended up going to stop it, and sometimes the stations fought so much that they forgot about the fire. The fire station volunteers put out fires for publicity. All companies had mottos; company 3’s motto was “Always Ready”. Even though the fires and floods were bad and Sacramento still stands.

Of course every town, city, country, and state go through rough times now and then, but they always try to get up again, and rebuild. Not many tragedies were as bad as Sacramento’s because of the floods, but we, Sacramento, tried to get back up. Now we are one of the most populated cities in the country.

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