Still, all that snow would melt, eventually, and solve all our drought-related problems. Most of Yosemite Valley is closed due to potentially perilous snowpack and flooding. Many living in mountain towns found themselves trapped for weeks.Ĭalifornia Most of Yosemite Valley is closed due to potentially perilous snowpack and flooding Suddenly levels were not just high, they were too high. The snow may have eventually turned back to rain at lower elevations, but in the mountains it kept on coming. What does the sight of an inch of snow on a palm tree conjure in most people’s imaginations if not the end of the world? Hot cocoa all around!īut even for those of us with no more than a view of the local foothills, what was really cool at first became cause for concern. Then, for a minute, it was great, gorgeously record-breakingly high - skiers and snowboarders rejoiced, kids built snowmen and winter felt like winter for once. Has anyone checked in on the pub and poetry scenes?)Īnd the snowpack, oh the snowpack, what will become of the snowpack? For so long, it was too low, like, scarily, record-breakingly low. Yes, it looks like Ireland now, but what about in August when everything turns brown and bursts into flame? (For the record, this is a classic example of Irish thinking, so maybe the rain has had cultural implications as well. Then, when the sun came out and the world went into superbloom, we cast our eyes o’er Eden and saw only the spectacle of future dried-out brush that would contribute to more fires when the temperatures rose.
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