Memo to Mother Nature: You can turn off the rain now. We’ve had enough.
You heard our reporter up in northern California this morning. In the middle of the Oroville Dam flood emergency, there are forecasts of more rain coming in two days.
This winter storm after storm has been lined up and they’ve resulted in record rainfall and snow pack in the Sierras.
Here in Southern California, we’ve had more rain than we’ve seen in several years and those storms that keep coming are going to keep bringing us more rain as well starting late this week for a few days.
And while all this rain was very much needed because of the drought in recent years, we don’t need any more.
The San Diego County Water Authority declared two weeks ago the drought in the San Diego area is over, saying we have enough water on hand and that we can produce through the desalination plant now that we can last three years without any more rain.
Not we don’t want to go that long without rain again obviously, and we won’t. But despite being out of the drought according to the county water folks, the state water board says not so fast, those drought restrictions are not just going to disappear.
And now we have to get ready for even more rain in a season during which we’ve already had a series of storms that flooded streets and downed trees. And have left behind a lot more potholes to fix and a lot more weeds to pull. A lot more weeds!
(Photo credit C. Albert, my backyard)