re: #331 Snarknado!

More important for irrigation systems and such (the snowpack is above normal at this time, hurrah!), but I also think of an entire state of stressed and dying trees and other wildlife. This will help a lot.

(On the UC Berkeley campus, the fern I mourned in summer has actually put out a couple of tiny new leaves, and the grassy areas they didn’t water are turning green again. Not only that, some of the lawns they covered with tree choppings in preparation for the low-water new plantings have green poking up through them. Evidently it’s not so easy to kill off grass — if almost a year of total dryness didn’t do it.)

Grass is really hard to kill. A nasty weed where you don’t want it.
The native plants will be fine. It reminds me of the end of Steinbeck’s “To a God Unknown” where the protagonist spends a lot of time watering moss on a rock with the very last water from a spring during a drought. Umm, every tried to kill moss? It grows on the composition shingle roof of our house where I can assure you it gets no water at all whatsoever all summer long-just blazing sun. First bit of rain in the fall and it’s green and happy.