The term "sane people" is racist and sexist. TD
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"Planet Earth is usually self-correcting and adjusting. Often cities, as heat islands, get really warm and then cause thunderstorms that cool them down. California has been in a drought situation and the Northeast got slammed with a blizzard last year — a blizzard with so much snow that in June one collected snow pile still existed.
"Now it appears California is in for a massive, continual rain storm and the Northeast is going to be pretty dry.
"Digging into that Los Angeles Times story, there is this bit:
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"Planet Earth is usually self-correcting and adjusting. Often cities, as heat islands, get really warm and then cause thunderstorms that cool them down. California has been in a drought situation and the Northeast got slammed with a blizzard last year — a blizzard with so much snow that in June one collected snow pile still existed.
"Now it appears California is in for a massive, continual rain storm and the Northeast is going to be pretty dry.
The last record El Niño that ended in 1998 was quickly followed by the arrival of El Niño’s dry sister, La Niña."Now, reading that and knowing just how dry California has been, I would think sane people would start building some new reservoirs to collect all the rain they are going to get. For perspective, from the article about the last El Niño:" . . .
“Thinking ahead one year, could we be whiplashed from deluge back to drought again?” Patzert said. “Because remember, La Niña is the diva of drought.”
Patzert said that in the last 140 years in California, seven out of every 10 years are dry, so it would be foolish to declare an end to water conservation during this winter’s rains.
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