[Ron61]

Maurice,

The water situation out here has been a contention of greed and power versus who has it for years. Now they have found out that no amount of money can make us give them water that doesn't exist. It is supposed to shower today but it was supposed to have rained yesterday and it was sunny and 69°. We are still in an official drought condition and can't make up 4 years of no rain with even average rain for one Winter. I think our average is around 46 to 50 inches per year and we haven't had more than abut 10 to 15 inches the past 4 years. And even worse is the snow packs in the mountains aren't even close to being as deep as they should. My Shasta and Lassen has a good cover right now but the past few days of warm weather has already started taking a big toll on it. Where there should be 20 to 30 feet there is about 10 to 15 feet.

Ron