RAIN, RAIN, WHERE ARE YOU?
After eight months without natures moisture(rain), Foster City finally got some desperately needed rain. Not much, but enough to let the people still know what rain looks like.
When I pulled into a gas station near Foster City and walked up to the cashier's window to pay for the gas, before I pumped it, there was a sign in the cashier's window: "Closed for an hour. Took my five week old sun to see the rain fall."
In 1960, when the Olympics were in Squaw Valley, our weather in California was very similar to our weather today. It started to rain and snow in December and then quit. It did not rain or snow until the games started in February. So far, we have had rain and snow this month(December), but the weather report, which came out in the last few days, said that no more rain or snow until after Christmas, just freezing nights. Is nature going to repeat itself, which is the pattern that it follows, or just blame it on the Green House Effect(?), whatever that is.
People who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, know that the Sierra Nevada Mountains needs a lot of snow. This snow is the water of the largest dam in the world--The Sierra Nevada Mountains. The San Francisco Bay Area gets its majority of drinking water from the Sierras. If there's no water coming into the San Francisco Bay Area from the Sierras, this would be one of the world's biggest droughts. So far, nature has not let this happen: It seems like at the last minute nature fills its reservoirs and dams with enough water to last for a year or more. Are we, Californians, lucky? Or, is this the "norm" for California?
Nature, in California, knows what it is doing. When everything seems gloomy, nature steps in and cleans the air, fills our largest dam with snow, fills our largest and smallest reservoirs with water, and puts us back into the norm. This has been going on for the last seventy years, and will continue unless we do something stupid, like over acting to confuse nature's way of taking care of us.
But sometimes nature will give us several good storms until the end of February, and then forget us until September or October. This has happened in California for the last few years. Will this happen again this year? What do you think?
