California apocalyptic snowstorm heading east

A quiet and snowy Sunday morning in Quincy.  A Quincy Quarry News exclusive image.

– News and commentary from Quincy Quarry News

A different kind of snow in Berkeley California
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California’s recent run of brutally dry drought years has undergone a massive change in its climate this year.

Near biblical levels of precipitation have fallen upon the Golden State in recent months with its latest generational epic storm this week expected to arrive in New England tomorrow night.

Particularly troubling, forecasts by regional media other than Quincy Quincy News started out talking up the storm as probably but “a “plowable” event.”

A “plowable” event, getting plowed – whatever
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These expectations then moved up to projections of perhaps as much as a five inch snowfall in the Boston/Quincy area with the 93 corridor seen as a potentially wobbly dividing line for likely heavier snowfall to the west of it. 

In other words, but a few miles shift easterly and Quincy locals could end up Q’ed.

Further troubling: on Saturday at least one local supermarket had plenty of bread, eggs, and milk on hand as locals appear to have been lulled into complacency given what has been an otherwise all but snow-free winter.

California drought policies
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Conversely, how epic has been this latest California storm? 

Not only can just about anyone living most everywhere in California readily see snow-covered mountains on a lately rare clear day in the wake of this latest storm, this storm was so cold that traces of snow fell but a few miles away from fabled Malibu Beach as well as lasted for a while both on and around the famous Hollywood sign located on the northwesterly edge of Hollywood’s not all that tall Swish Alps.

Further, so epic has been the swing to gully washing precipitation events in California this rainy season that reservoirs crucial to its agricultural industry, its industry in general as well as the California lifestyle are likely to be full for at least this spring, if not also well into the summer months as a so far already several-fold greater than normal snow pack in the high country melts.

Up, down – repeat as often as necessary
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In fact, so much water is expected to be available such that it will make things flush for unrestricted flushing even if many Californians will likely continue to shower with at least someone else.

In fact, the only likely drought legacy hangover this year will be water tables that were greatly over-drafted in recent years care of the pumping of underground water by mostly farmers in California’s Central Valley so as to keep their farms on aquatic life support.

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