California hit by rains, floods during drought

Weather.com, 1/9/23; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Rainstorm flood watch warning issued for Southern California (Twitter via LA Times)

Will the Sierra snowpack sustain us?

The artificial drought California is enduring (as some agency or agencies control the weather and keep weather anomalies, like an artificial high-pressure system, moving atmospheric rivers to flood areas while starving others of normal precipitation levels). Now the waterworks are being turned on with little to no effect on drought being claimed. The Island of California (aka "Paradise") is still in it. The state is flooding, crumbling, and being devastated, all while not storing much if any of that free water for later when it's desperately needed to avoid draining the Colorado River and its reservoirs to water our lawns.

• Reporter and failed talk show host Ellen DeGeneres posts video next to flood waters in her backyard in Montecito, Santa Barbara, backyard, which got 16 inches of rain 1/9/23 (The Weather Channel)

(Weather.com) California is once again being pummeled by flooding rain and damaging winds after yet another atmospheric river storm pushed into the state. That flooding forced more evacuations in areas like Santa Cruz County, south of the San Francisco Bay Area, where the San Lorenzo River reached major flood stage today (Monday) morning and appeared to have flooded homes. At least 12 people have died in California in storm-related incidents since the storms started hammering the state a couple of weeks ago.

• ​FORECAST: Flooding threat worsens as major storm arrives
• STORY: Dangerous California storm prompts evacuations