Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Great news in the LA Times

It's a beautiful sunny cloudless day here in Vancouver,   but cool...well,  maybe downright cold but I'm cosy looking out at snowcapped mountains and I see ducks and seagulls on Lost Lagoon so it must be completely unfrozen.  It looks like it.

But so glad to read this article this morning:

Filling up
Lakes and reservoirs are filling up across Northern California thanks to weeks of heavy rain and snow. Throughout the course of California’s nearly six-year drought, the declining water levels at these places became a stark symbol of the state’s water shortage. Now, they serve as barometers of the state’s rapidly evolving drought picture. Lake Tahoe has risen a whopping 12 inches in just the last two weeks as the storms have dumped 33.6 billion gallons of water into the lake. As of Tuesday morning, 154 of the largest reservoirs had filled to about 97% of their collective average for the day.