Northern California is a big area.
Sunday] Flooding in Humboldt: Photos and Observations
http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2014/dec/21/flooding/
It was big news that they got a soaking rain.
The rest of CA got squat...except some monsoon activity in SoCal, a completely different universe.
State agriculture is driven and CONTROLLED by what happens in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where trees as old as 500yrs are dying for lack of water.