[5String43]

Drought-buster? Not a chance, unfortunately. We would need many more of these, plus the promise of continued rains in coming years, for that to happen - we'd need something like 150 percent of average rain and snow, as measured in April. As it is, if this winter brings enough rain and snowfall to fill, or mostly fill, our reservoirs, especially Shasta, that will go a long way toward at least alleviating the pressure somewhat. But the weather scientists already are saying that the next few years are trending toward La Nina years (I have no idea how they can know such things) and if that's right, then there probably would be continued dryness. At least here where Mrs. String and I live, we got 2.7 inches of rain in the last few days. Our yards, including grass, shrubs and trees, like it very much. And the streets around us did just fine.