The state has already made a political declaration that we are in a "permanent drought".
In CA if you control the water you control everything. But sometimes the water controls you.
Get out the boats.
Basically, CA government is saying - water is NOT wet!
Yes, drought and global warming...
Why pass up a perfectly good crisis where government can grab more power.
When it pours, man it pours.
Do the farmers have containers to store the rain?
Wait a minute. Once-in-ten-year storm? You mean the climate has a cycle?
Winning!
So the same “experts” who said El Niño was going to flood us last winter (not) and said this year would be a dry La Niña will continue to lecture us on the evils of AGW... um, ok.
Can’t be true, the article is not printed in all caps.
“Officials and experts say that widespread flooding, overflowing reservoirs and rivers does not end the drought.
The state has already made a political declaration that we are in a “permanent drought”.
In CA if you control the water you control everything. But sometimes the water controls you.
Get out the boats.”
I have a few hundred sandbags already filled stored on the side yard. When we started to get storms a few weeks ago, I went to the local city yard and got several truck loads of sand and bags. No one I know has even considered getting sand bags.
I live a couple hundred yards from a creek running through the burbs here, and it is possible it could flood.
I can hardly wait. I have my sandbags all ready. May not need any Hip Boots this season. This is how it used to be every year, heavy rains from October through March. Hoping the season of the wet has returned for good. I don’t want to drive through it though. Traffic becomes paralyzed.
Dumbass state I live in.
With any luck it will break off along the Arizona boarder and drift out to sea.
The weather people WHINE when there is ONE drop less than normal and WHINE when there is ONE drop more than normal.
WHEN did "weather" replace real news?
It ALWAYS storms in winter. North Dakota is ALWAYS a zillion degrees below freezing every winter. Weather patterns are know entities. Tornados, hurricanes, storm = weather. Big deal.
Supposedly, it would take 40 days and 40 nights of extreme blizzard snow for California to get out of this record drought, provided the Sierra snow does not melt too quickly.
Exactly. I've been hearing about this stupid drought for the entire 35 years since I moved here. (If it's yellow, its mellow. If it's brown flush it down.)
They are too stupid to capture the water flowing down the LA River & Santa Ana River into the ocean.
Drought gives them a reason to hype the panic & raise our taxes. But we still have funds for that Browndoggle slow-train to Fresno and hiring Holder to keep criminal illegal aliens, and money for the homeless and, and, and.......
That does explain why Folsom and Natomas Dams have opened their spillways and they’re testing the gates at Sacramento Weir to open it up fast in case this storm causes a fast rise in both the American and Sacramento Rivers.
Damn those Russians! Now you’re telling me they got into Rove’s weather machine? Did HRC sell it to them?
In CA we are in a permanent drought of intelligence. And once in a while it rains a lot.
Seriously, though, this is supposed to be a whopper of a storm.