El Nino is likely, and it could be very powerful next winter (San Diego: transplants, for sale)

[Goin' Coastal]

Originally Posted by expatCA

Why does everyone miss the simplest way to make it rain?

Wash your car.

Well, it worked. That, or the windows I washed last week.

It poured rain in SW Riverside Co. for several hours today.
It was a nice, drenching rain, probably the best we've had in the year we've lived
here.

I feel hopeful.

[znlwovuhrjw]

Originally Posted by Goin' Coastal

Well, it worked. That, or the windows I washed last week.

It poured rain in SW Riverside Co. for several hours today.
It was a nice, drenching rain, probably the best we've had in the year we've lived
here.

I feel hopeful.

Now you just need to find a way to turn that into snow and relocate all of it to a single reservoir to be useful.

[wac_432]

With every single 3-4 day storm from now until the end of the winter, get ready for the gloom and doom news stories reassuring us that CA is still drying up and blowing away. Even if all the reservoirs are at 100% and the snowpack is triple the normal level, I bet we'll still get drought stories.

[LoriBee62]

Originally Posted by wac_432

With every single 3-4 day storm from now until the end of the winter, get ready for the gloom and doom news stories reassuring us that CA is still drying up and blowing away. Even if all the reservoirs are at 100% and the snowpack is triple the normal level, I bet we'll still get drought stories.

I know! Doesn't that get old? We say that here too. We could be kayaking down our street, and some weather man would be saying, "But it's not going to help The Drought".

[LuvSouthOC]

It rains one day in Southern California and we are expected to declare the drought over?

[saibot]

Originally Posted by LuvSouthOC

It rains one day in Southern California and we are expected to declare the drought over?

No, I don't think anyone is saying that. The point is that droughts like this tend to become political entities with money riding on them. A lot of new policies are depending on our having ongoing "drought conditions" for the foreseeable future, no matter what happens, so it's to the advantage of certain government departments to make sure those conditions persist. So we get statements such as, for instance, "It would have to rain 200 inches in a year to end the drought," which is clearly never going to happen, but it shuts people up.

I remember the drought of 1987-91. After we finally got a prolonged rainy season, people started asking at what point the drought would be declared over. Rainfall was well over average, the snowpack was great, the reservoirs were full again, etc., but Powers That Be proclaimed "It will be over when we say it's over." They get to decide. That's what it's all about.

[eccotecc]

As soon as the drought is over, get ready for the flood tax. It'll be similar to the $156.00 people have to pay who live in the mountains. Just out of curiosity do folks who live in LA county, who are prone to fires, have to pay this tax?

[Elliott_CA]

Originally Posted by saibot

A lot of new policies are depending on our having ongoing "drought conditions" for the foreseeable future, no matter what happens, so it's to the advantage of certain government departments to make sure those conditions persist.

The government will extend the drought. I saw a chemtrail today.

[LoriBee62]

Originally Posted by eccotecc

As soon as the drought is over, get ready for the flood tax. It'll be similar to the $156.00 people have to pay who live in the mountains. Just out of curiosity do folks who live in LA county, who are prone to fires, have to pay this tax?

Property insurance is higher for people who live in desginated brush zones.

[saibot]

Originally Posted by LoriBee62

Property insurance is higher for people who live in designated brush zones.

Our former home insurance co. canceled us because we are within 1/4 mile of a "wilderness area."