During 1943, some $10 million ($137 million today) worth of flood damage was done to agriculture alone in the Tulare Lake Basin; the Kern River contributed almost half of the flow that caused the damage.
In 1943, a total of about $10 million ($137 million today) was incurred as flood damage to agriculture alone in the Tulare Lake Basin; the Kern River supplied almost half of the water causing this damage.