Albert Fausel is a third-generation owner of the Placerville Hardware store, which opened 170 years ago in 1852.
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Unprecedented, my ass. It happens every year there's a good rain. It's called erosion. That's how gold gets into the streams and rivers. It washes down from the hillsides to the lowest point, the rivers and streams.
Some years are just better than ever. If I was in California right now, this would be the 4th 'biggest gold rush of my lifetime'.
I remember one year there was such a heavy rainfall that there was flooding in the streets of Sonora and traffic was backed up for miles because people were in the streets panning the potholes in the roads. The CHP were going nuts trying to run people off.
