05-30-2016, 10:27 AM
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Exceptional drought -- all of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. almost all of Kern, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles and Orange Counties, Kings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks. Much water for the San Francisco Bay Area comes from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park.
Extreme drought: San Diego, Oceanside, Escondido, Riverside, San Bernardino, Fresno, Merced, Modesto, Barstow, Stockton, Livermore, eastern crest of the Sierra (whence comes Los Angeles water)
Severe drought: Monterrey, Salinas, Gilroy, Concord, Walnut Creek, Sacramento, Palm Springs, Indio, Brawley, Calexico, Reno, Carson City
Moderate drought: Napa, Chico, Yuba City, Las Vegas
Abnormally dry: San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, San Rafael, Vallejo, Santa Rosa, Ukiah
Eureka seems to have gone back to normal.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.