![]() “If you’re in San Francisco, and you rely on surface storage from Hetch Hetchy, this is great … But if you’re in a small town in the San Joaquin Valley, where massive pumping of groundwater has dried out your well, it will take successive years of rain like this to make a difference.” The American River at Discovery Park in Sacramento was flooded on Jan. “Drought is in the eye of the beholder,” said Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Its water supply - Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, in the Sierra Nevada - is 80% full, the ground is saturated and near-record rainfall has occurred in recent days. In some places, it might feel like the drought is history. With at least two more storms approaching California over the next week, we look at what all this means for drought conditions and water supply. The storms also come at a time when scientists are predicting a long-term shift toward a warmer, drier climate. That designation is based on a long list of complex metrics, including soil moisture, water shortages, levels of streams and lakes, snow cover and runoff. Abruptly, a state emerging from the dust of three painfully dry years was inundated with more water than it knew what to do with.īut the wet and wild weather over the past dozen days won’t end the drought, at least not yet, and it won’t undo the driest period in the West in the past 1,200 years.Ībout 71% of California was experiencing “severe” drought on Wednesday, dropping to 46% today, according to the National Integrated Drought Information System. Meanwhile, the Pacific Ocean continued to whip up more atmospheric rivers and “bomb cyclones,” and one after another, these intense storms pummeled California. Rural levees burst and rivers spilled their banks. Parched watersheds soaked up the first rains, but soon became waterlogged. The year 2023 began with a historic bang - record precipitation and disastrous flooding throughout much of California. ![]() She’s noticed Lu Shi Yi has matured over the years: he knows how to be considerate.A dozen days of wet and wild weather haven’t ended the drought, and won’t cure the driest period in the West in the past 1,200 years. Also, how will they get home? Lu Shi Yi casually smiles that it won’t be a problem. Plus, this will be reported to her professor. The tourists found a way back to the hotel and didn’t even bother to call her for help. Then she receives a call that the tourists are already back at the hotel. The sun has long set and they’re still searching. On this very empty street, Lu Shi Yi and Xiao Ju fail to locate the tourists. ![]() The tour was all going well until two tourists went missing. He also lets her nap while he substitutes for her in answering all the tourists’ questions (thanks to Xiao Ju's super duper detailed notebook). Even though it's embarrassing, for the girl he likes, he’ll do it. Xiao Ju has a brilliant idea to entertain her tourists: together with Lu Shi Yi they reenact "The Bund”(上海滩). Lu Shi Yi is once again annoyed as he mutters to himself, "Eat, eat, eat! All you do is eat! Are you a pig?" He also wants to invite her to the movie but before he can complete his sentence, She's off to buy yummy buns. No girl, he wants to buy something for you. Then the next day he brings her to buy a pen. She snickers, "Because I'm tacky?" Upset, he sighs and leaves this hopeless girl. Chu sounds like "first" and so she (Xiao Ju) is his first love? Reading too much into this? Maybe. While he's trying to fix her pen, he asks if she knows why he gave her daisies ( chu-ju). Her fingers are dirtied by the ink of her broken pen. She apologizes for both and volunteers to wash his shirt. She pushes him away before he discovers her letter but in the process she gropes his pecs and dirties his shirt. She glares upward because only one person would do that: Lu Shi Yi. ![]() Xiao Ju is at the library writing Cheng Lang a letter.
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