[dogbyte12]

Just a reminder that California would be a parched desert this year without water from the Colorado river. Both LA and San Diego had all time lows of rainfall in the last 12 months in over 150 years of record keeping.

LA itself was 10% below the record. Math wizards will come up with the odds of that, but with 150 years of data, coming 10% lower than any point ever spells big danger. It is going to be one of the worst fire seasons in modern memory, and it is just starting.

[petuniasevan]

Not just that (and I'm a Southern California native - I understand all too well - ) but the heavy UNREGULATED forest growth is tinder now.

Ah, the enviral utopia: No roads, no logging, no clearing brush...NOW NO TREES, tree-hugging idiots!

They'll get their wish for no people to live among their sacred trees. Nothing else will either. Trees included.