California Nightmare

Well, California is finally getting some rain . . . 

. . . though not exactly what the state's forty million residents hoped for.

One major rainstorm after another has been hitting the state for the past couple of weeks thanks to an "atmospheric river" of moisture in the air that keeps coming off the Pacific Ocean,  These storms have produced as much rain as four, six, even twelve inches in one fell swoop.  The result?  Lots and lots of floods.

It never rains in California but girl, don't they warn ya, it pours . . . man, it pours!

But at least the drought has been alleviated, right?  Time to add insult to injury, boys and girls!  Parts of California has been so dry for so long that not even a foot of rain can saturate the ground enough - in fact, the rain has mostly rolled off the ground on its way to the rivers.  And even where it does saturate the ground well, it's still not enough to replenish the groundwater.  However, many of the reservoirs are a lot more full than they used to be, so that must count for something.

And, in spite of all this, there continue to be many people who deny climate change.

And one of them is from California.