The whole country was buried in snow.
In the case of my Southern CA there was never the water to support populations in the south. For that reason before development there were water rights obtained from the north to the river and so forth.
My memory is that Jerry Brown his first two terms in his infinite stupidity gave back the water rights to two other states leaving us always at risk for being dry or charged through our @ss to buy it.
At this same time Jerry Brown also sabotaged CA further by getting unions into government employment and now we have all these retirement pensions for government workers we can’t afford either.
This article should read: ALL JERRY BROWN’S FAULT.
And NorCal lakes go dry shipping water to the Southland.