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Thanks! And yup, this was the year after the El Niño disappointment. Better late than never I suppose!

California and rain are like, well, oil and water. We’re so often without it and then, when it comes, we send it into concrete channels that carry it straight to the ocean. I heard once of a California city that built cisterns, like the Romans, under their central park and are therefore able to sell water to their neighboring cities.