After a promising start to the rainy season last year January started and ended in sunshine. As did February. And March. California has been in an exceptional drought for three years, and the usually reliable Farmers Almanac predicted more of the same this year. Something changed. We’ve just emerged from three weeks of wet weather, brought along on the jet stream, which took dead aim at San Francisco sometime in late December. Today it’s dry.
The weather has caused billions of dollars in damage and caused more than twenty deaths. It has also brought ski resorts enough snow, too much snow. Kirkwood has measured 368” of snow this season, more than thirty feet. Of snow. Enough.
For 330 Rugby, rain and hail.
…and wet newspapers…
that focus on the damage. Below is the creek that runs through our property, then through my neighbor’s, then down through Kensington where it dives beneath the Ace Hardware, never to be seen again
Green waste is picked up every week. We have eleven cans. We fill all eleven with redwood branches.
Reservoirs are filling. The snow pack is deep. The extraordinarily dry year we experienced last year isn’t forgotten, but Californians—at least those who weren’t flooded—are breathing a sigh of relief…and flushing their toilets again.