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To: miraje who wrote (1012736)	4/23/2017 4:54:35 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1575422

" The drought's now over. " Just until the next one. It's more like gone but not forgotten. Historic Calif. Drought Wreaked Irreversible, Bizarre Damage Central Valley sank 3 feet—and won’t be rebounding Snowmelt and rain are in abundance for the first time in years in Central Valley, Calif., which boasts so much farmland it helps feed much of the world. But the state’s five-year drought was so bad that all those farms sucked up enough groundwater to sink a solid three feet, thereby reducing the region’s water storage capacity, reports a new study out of Stanford University. “California is getting all of this rain, but in the Central Valley, there has been a loss of space to store it,” says a researcher tells Courthouse News; they used satellite technology to precisely calculate the changes in elevation. “When too much water is taken out of clay, its structure is rearranged at the microscopic level and it settles into a new configuration that has less storage space.” newser.com We're expecting more extreme droughts, and more extreme storms when we get rain. It's called weather whiplash. As for the snow, they expect more rain and less snow as the climate warms. water.ca.gov "People's Climate marchers are pissed" You betcha. So is the Climate Beast.