Even without climate change intensifying California’s storms and floods, the California government needs to make changes such as constructing new places to hold floodwater in order to better control floods and using such water more efficiently during periods of drought.
Rain, rain go away. Come again some other day. Or never. Seriously, we can’t handle it.
All across UC Irvine’s campus last Wednesday, exasperated and confused students could be heard cursing the rain and asking how it could possibly be so cold. Perhaps the fact that it’s now mid-October and Winter is around the corner has something to do with the answer.