I went for a walk today with my dogs in the Redwood, Pine and Oak Forests near where I live. Within one mile of where I live there is a forest with trails with Redwoods, Pine, Oaks, Ferns, Blackberry bushes and usually this time of year poison Oak to watch out that my dogs don't get into and bring it home. However, this year there was no rain at all (which the poison oak needs to get going by now) and on the whole hike I only found one tiny bush of poison oak barely blooming which was good. Because I have to wipe my dogs down with baby wipes that have alcohol on them that cuts the poison oak oil from the leaves to keep my family from getting poison oak patches on their arms, faces or legs.
Poison oak grows up to about 3500 feet in California and anywhere there is enough water for it it is usually there this time of year until around November or so when the by then red leaves start to fall off.
Anyway, there is spring in California from the last 2 weeks of rain of probably around 5 inches on average in Northern California. However, most reservoirs are anywhere from 5% to 21% capacity where they likely should be about 80% to 100% capacity by now. So, the drought danger isn't gone just put off for a few months. And likely, Unless we get total floods for about a couple of months many California towns won't have any water at all by August or September 2014 (or until we get a whole lot of rain once again.
However, for ocean towns maybe desalinization might be an option if the ocean water isn't too radiated from Fukushima to make that practical now to be able to actually drink that water. But, most people agree swimming in it is still okay but some of the fish aren't okay to eat here in California and even more aren't okay to eat in Hawaii because of radiation.
I watched a segment on TV of how in Long Beach, California they are starting to collect kelp to see how high the radiation is in the water there. Because kelp would be a good indicator of radiation levels here in California.
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