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"Steve Dzurella said he's been waiting a long time for the return of rain to create a picture perfect moment over the Lake Clementine dam.Watch report:\u00A0Sierra runoff draws crowds to Folsom Lake, NorCal riversHe wasn't disappointed when he walked down the short hiking path to the dam's overlook.\"This is amazing. This the greatest thing. This is the best thing to be on the planet,\" Dzurella said.Dzurella's comments were barely audible over the roar of the water tumbling over the dam Monday morning.Steve Hoffman was just a few minutes behind to soak in the same view.\"It's incredible. This was just a trickle three days ago,\" said Hoffman, a Placer County resident.This weekend's rain has sent so much water flowing into Folsom Lake that the lake's level has risen more than 17 feet since the storm first began.At one point, more than 30,000 cubic feet of water per second was flowing into the lake. That compares to less than 300 cfs the day before the storm.\"This is powerful,\" said Steve Albin, a visitor from Oregon who stopped to see the North Fork of the American River.But even with the addition of nearly 80,000 acre-feet of water into Folsom Lake since the storm began, state and federal water officials are cautioning that much more rain and snow will be needed amid this drought just to get back to an average lake level.Watch: 'Powerful' Sierra runoff at\u00A0Lake Clementine dam\"This storm did nothing to alleviate the pain we've been experiencing,\" said Federico Barajas, deputy water manager for the Bureau of Reclamation at Folsom Lake.Still, for Steve Dzurella, what he saw Monday was picture perfect.\"I've been waiting for this for a long time.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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