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Get a grip. I'm a Brit so 7000 zillion miles away from CA. The title says x is an issue and the article tries to answer it. I'm reading stuff about somewhere
by gerdesj 4y ago
Get a grip. I'm a Brit so 7000 zillion miles away from CA. The title says x is an issue and the article tries to answer it. I'm reading stuff about somewhere else and why not? CA is famously in a long term drought and yet it is being short term very heavily rained on. I cannot fault the article title - it is a very obvious question.
This seems pertinent:
"Some of it can be captured for later, but the short answer is it falls so quickly that we lack the ability to take that water and set it aside quickly enough in a place where we can store it for later. The primary forms of storage for water in California are the snowpack, that typically accumulates annually, and then reservoirs behind dams, and then groundwater aquifers."
- dang 4y agoCan you please omit swipes like "Get a grip" from your HN posts? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and your otherwise fine comment would be much better without that bit. (I realize things like that aren't cardinal sins or anything but they poison the ecosystem in a way that doesn't automatically self-correct the way it can in smaller groups or more private forums. On HN it makes a big difference when commenters throw these things in vs. restrain themselves from doing so.)
- gerdesj 4y agoMessage received.