Opinion: We need the rain that’s about to come. What we don’t need is drought amnesia
Something terrible is about to happen in Los Angeles: We’ll soon get rain, a lot of it (by our semi-arid standards) and all at once. … The relief will largely accrue to our drought-stricken psyches, not the actual drought. If there’s anything I’ve learned from seemingly one record dry season after another these decades, it’s that we semi-desert dwellers find any excuse to think things just might be fine after a good one-off soaking or a decent dusting of snow on the San Gabriel high peaks …
–Written by Paul Thornton, the Los Angeles Times’ letters editor.