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CA produces something like 30-40% of the nations produce. I don't remember exact numbers, but it's absurdly high
I'm in the Bay area. Been here for about 10 months. This morning the creek bed by my work was almost full. Normally the creek is nearly dried out, it was shocking to see the water level this high. >

I've lived in California for over 20 years and don't recall ever having so much rain and for so long. >

Been here 40+ years. This is still light compared to 97/98. >

Still light compared to 2017 too,   checked the Feather River (think Oroville Dam) today-flowing 8300  cfs,  it peaked at 325,000 cfs in ‘17.  We still got a way to go before it gets real bad. >

Wasn’t that mostly because of the spillway failure and then having to lower the levels in the dam? >

Looks like the weather is about to get real fugly in California. >

It's been pretty bad in my area the last few days and we haven't even been hit by the worst of it yet >

Hope everyone makes the right decisions at the right time. Stay safe! >

Don't worry. People will still be driving to Tahoe in the snow in their Tesla with bald tires. >

Sounds like a good thing to me. >

Natural selection at work. What can we say? >

When you move from Texas to California and get to be in both winter storms >

where does the water go >

Hopefully the rain waiter is being collected. >

My friend lives in Monterrey.  Cisterns there are illegal because of how water regulation works in CA.  All rain must drain naturally.  She has one.  It came with the house.  She doesn't use it and lets it spill over so as to not get fined. >

California is going to be a jungle this spring/summer with all of this rain. >

I wish that were true, but that’s just not how hydrology works. The 20 years of droughts have dried out the soil so badly that it’s becoming harder for the soil to absorb moisture at the rate the water falls upon it, causing the water to flow over the land faster than it is absorbed down into it. The resulting flash floods will then erode the soil and cause crop failure, which will likely be the next story we see out of the valley.
What’s really disturbing is that California provides a lot of food, I believe it’s first in monetary receipts in the US. California crop failure will be extremely dangerous to the food supply.
Since the water supply is mostly from glacier and mountain runoff, we need to see an overall decrease in temperatures at the glaciers throughout the entire year, otherwise all that increase in snow pack just quickly fills up in winter… and disappears in summer.