Californian here. pG&E is so bad, and it gets so much worse in rural areas. Our infrastructure just needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, it’s not working. With climate change and forest mismanagement as well, we can’t just continue on thinking that this is normal. Between fires and floods, I don’t see how it’s sustainable to just think that rolling blackouts and outages that last weeks to months is safe or healthy.

Looks like it would need more examination into what causes the overdrawing...

For example: grass yards require a lot of water... is that really necessary? How much can be saved here?
Agriculture generally gets a lot of water allotment. Are there methods of farming that reduce water needs? How can that be encouraged? Are there different crops that use less that can be farmed instead?

There are ways to address overdrawing, some are cultural and some need a lot more context of the area that is overdrawing.

Live in different states. Quite frankly Phoenix shouldn’t exist in its current form.

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Our local reservoir went from about 8% capacity to overflow predicted this weekend during this season. It's amazing how much rain we got. I don't remember it being like this since I think it was 1996 when we got like three 100 year storms in one year.

Dont worry we will be back into a drought by summer.

I've cried tears of joy for getting a statistically significant result in a months long experiment. If I was in conversation conservation, I too would be sobbing out of relief that the intervention worked.

Not how drought works. Rain events don't negate years of damage, often the flooding because of that damage is worse.

Its not a scoreboard, it is ecosystems.

This is fine.

Few understand this. If you live in SoCal you'll understand this. Unless we get a solid flow over the next few months, Santa Ana winds will wreck havoc after the fire season will be rough.

is it though? i dont think its normal to burst into tears from joy never seen it

So what's the alternative?

The storms have brought much needed water, but we’ve been in drought so long that even a couple weeks of monsoon weather won’t make me believe we’re out yet.

Stop Almond Farming in California and increase reservoir capacity.

Should be fine just put it in a swimming pool of rice

The drought is definitely over in the parking lot of my friends apartment complex. Anyone want to buy a Tesla that has water damage due to being completely submerged?

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It is a good thing. Sometimes extreme emotion can make people cry, even if it's a good feeling.

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This is less uplifting than people think because none of this rain went into the Sierras or Rockies. This means still empty lake reservoirs and not enough snow pack.

I heard pigs do pretty well when they escape. They even grow tusks over a few generations.

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No, no it is not. I live here and it is decidedly not a desert. We have areas that are but the state itself is not.