fyi
The problem with a drought is that you cannot engineer your way out of a drought, but you can engineer you way out of floods.
To bad gov. Moonbeam isn’t going to lift the drought restrictions
This drought was touted as proof of man-made global warming.
So is this rain.
Whatever it is, it requires a massive tax and redistribution solution, at the very least.
And yet in mid April the beautiful green hills are starting to turn brown. Still quite nice now but by May the green will be gone again.
Now Cali will let all that beautiful drinking water flow into the Pacific Ocean.
Send some of that rain this way... we are crispy crispy crispy down here in FL, haven’t seen rain in months, have had fires to the north and south and am getting nervous about the dry swamp with all of its built up tinder nearby. My orange tree dried up [something I have never seen happen before], and my bromelieds have all curled up to wait it out.
I grew up in Southern California. The record of cyclical water feast or famine is written in and on the land. It is a cycle with varied duration of either feast or famine that has been repeating for thousands of years. El Ninos and La Ninas are part (not all) of the pattern and they too have thousands of years history around the Pacific Ocean basin.
What should a smart California do now?
1. Improve and build up its water storage capacity with reservoirs sufficient for the next drought and do not rely even now on the current precipitation levels. 2. Keep building desalination plants along the coast. 3. Quit feeding “excess water” to San Francisco bay instead of the farmland in the Central Valley, which just forces draining of the underground water supplies to where the land keeps subsiding.
When Santa Rosa, Sonoma county, gets another .12 inches of rain, that will break an all time record for annual rainfall.
Yet, there are still drought nazis in California from the Oregon border to the La Raza border still getting a paycheck telling us to conserve on water.
A friend, who recently visited the southlands of the state sent us pictures of the best annual Poppy flowers in that area in over 100 years.