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To: locogringo who wrote (853028)4/29/2015 11:01:43 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 1575781
 
"In an average year, California gets enough snow and rain to put 200 million acres under a foot of water, "

Been a while since we've had an average year.

April 1, 2015California set a new "low water" mark today with its early-April snowpack measurement. The statewide electronic reading of the snowpack's water content stood at 5 percent of the April 1st average. Today's content was only 1.4 inches, or 5 percent of the 28-inch average. The lowest previous reading since 1950 was 25 percent of average, so Water Year 2015 is the driest winter in California's written record.

Up in the Sierra Nevada, the media-oriented snow survey at the traditional Phillips Station snow course just off Highway 50 90 miles east of Sacramento found no snow whatsoever today. At 6,800 feet, Phillips should be covered in snow this time of year as the snowpack reaches its peak. The average depth at Phillips since surveys began there in 1941 had been 66.5 inches, so to find not a flake in the meadow was remarkable and dismaying in equal parts

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"liberals have prevented the construction of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades"

Raygun killed the last dam project, and then the Prop 13 teabaggers voted down Jerry Brown's plan in '82.
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