Wild Grasses in California

I left home on the northern California coast 2 weeks ago. My back yard still looked dead except for the specific plants and trees I had watered because of water rationing. However, this morning I got up and looked outside and walked out on my redwood deck with my dogs and let them into my yard and what did I see?

The wild grasses had come up and were now 3 inches tall just after being gone only 2 weeks to Portland. Amazing!

This kind of thing is likely now happening all over California because of several large storms that have come through now. My redwood deck is still wet from the last one yesterday.