[bert]

You are probably wrong. The desert depends on water that is not there and stuff is drying up

The drought is the back breaking straw.

I was in the big agricultural valley and saw many farms with trees that were all brown adjacent to green crops.The water to sustain the tree crops is missing and all the thousands of trees were allowed to die.

[caww]

This is not only affecting California....but the rest of the nations "food" for much comes from California farmers for the rest of the nation.

As of Aug. 14 'last summer'...., 82% of the state was in "extreme" to "exceptional" drought, which are 'the two worst categories' on the U.S. Drought Monitor............ Drought index shows 'combined impact' of warm temps & lack of rain, current CA Drought worst on record.

Look at the 50's drought compared with last years