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Article: Storms Won't Abate Southern California's Thirst; To End Six-Year Drought, State Needs Months of Normal Snowfall in Northern Sierras
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- The Washington Post
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- February 12, 1992
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Fierce winter rain drenched southern California again today, but
officials said the heavy storms are doing little to ease the impact
of the state's damaging six-year drought.
That is because arid southern California, home to more than half
of the state's 31 million residents, imports two-thirds of its
water. Storms now sweeping over the region have triggered floods and
forced closure of streets and freeways over a wide area but dumped
relatively little snow in the northern Sierra Nevada that feeds the
state's gigantic reservoirs.
Federal and state weather forecasters held out a slim
possibility that the situation could change if a massive storm due
to hit the state tonight veers north. ...