I live in the bay area - I have a rain gauge in the back yard and this year it registered 26 inches (from October to now), which is double the normal. Most of it came in 4 separate rain storms and they were warm thus they didn’t produce as much snow accumulation as we normally get. Still the precipitation was there and should have been captured by the system of reservoirs along the Sierra foothills.
I have a suspicion that this crisis is being hyped as part of the push toward “climate change” laws that will be coming later this year (the Pope will be part of it). Governor moonbeam is a rabid advocate of that, so it is totally in his interest to make the problem seem much worse than it is.
I have to agree with you. Take a look at the attached interactive graphic on Lake Shasta.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/resDetailOrig.action?resid=SHA
This “drought” is nowhere near the one in 1977 as can be seen. And although Shasta is below the normal curve, It’s still 60% full when historically it’s at 71% of capacity right now. We unfortunately have a reservoir system that relies on snowpack, not rainfall. In addition, we haven’t built a storage facility since 1979 while the state has doubled its population. All thanks the the first two “Brown Administrations.” Our bigger problems are two: One, The LA Basin is loosing it’s “Colorado River water entitlement to AZ, and our government has allowed unbridled extension of farming.
I just love how some here on FR “cluck” incessantly about how terrible it is here in California. That we are on the road of no return, BS! Sure, we have a $hit government at present, but it has not always been so, and it will change back in the future. They all seem to forget that Ronald Reagan was governor here and that FR is headquartered here in Fresno. I’d be surprised if the Robinsons have any intention of moving, accustomed as they are to having indoor plumbing and nice weather. I guess our problem at the moment is that we’ve been seen as the best place in the US to live by too many of the wrong kind of people, because any number of our current “politicians,” came here from the Northeast dump states and are currently crapping in our nest having crapped up their nests from whence they came. Jerry Brown is one of the exceptions. We all wish now that his father (who was also one of our worthless governors) had used a condom.