California town seeks solutions as flood waters rise.

California is bracing for more flooding as temperatures rise and record-deep snowpack in the southern Sierra Nevada begins to melt and make its way downhill. The flooding that has already occurred was the result of dozens of powerful atmospheric rivers at the start of this year that caused more than $40 million worth of damage in Tulare County alone. The state is taking steps to help, including providing shelter assistance for displaced residents and aid for affected farmworkers, as well as supplying millions of sandbags, portable barriers called muscle walls and other flood prevention supplies. However, much of the response will fall to the four Tulare Basin counties, which are not part of the Department of Water Resources’ Central Valley Flood Protection Plan.