Sierra snowfall, one year apart.
Victor Davis Hanson from Stephen Frank's California Political News
... "So if the drought continues, billions of dollars of Westside orchards and vineyards will die, row cropland will lay fallow and farm-supported small towns will likewise dry up.
"There is a terrible irony to all this. Never have California farm prices been higher, given huge Pacific export demand. Never have California farmers been more savvy in saving water to produce record harvests of nutritious, clean and safe food. And never has farming been so central to a state suffering from the aftershocks of a housing collapse, chronic high unemployment, overregulation and the nation’s highest sales, income and gasoline taxes.
"Yet there are really two droughts — nature’s, and its man-made twin." ...
Hat tip to Harley Standlee; Placerville, CA
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