Guess the California drought is over!!
Got a week of crabbing coming up. We have postponed a Monday arrival in Bodega because they are expecting 4.5 inches of rain and wind,,big wind. Gotta say on one hand I am glad we are getting rain,, ...
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I live in SoCal nowadays and all I can think about with the recent rain is how big the fire danger will be next summer after all the new greenery turns brown. Our home is on the edge of the Santa Monica Mtns and the hills are a tinderbox, a wet tinderbox for a few months, but still choked with fuel.
BTW most of the water storage in CA is done by the slowly melting snowpack. The reservoirs and the aqueducts are only to catch it and move it around as it runs from the High Sierras to the sea. In fact, essentially ALL the water that falls on Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Imperial and the other southern counties goes straight to the ocean with no attempt made to catch any of it beyond some minimal absorption where the channels have not been paved.
BTW most of the water storage in CA is done by the slowly melting snowpack. The reservoirs and the aqueducts are only to catch it and move it around as it runs from the High Sierras to the sea. In fact, essentially ALL the water that falls on Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Imperial and the other southern counties goes straight to the ocean with no attempt made to catch any of it beyond some minimal absorption where the channels have not been paved.
