the California Drought in vivid detail

[some new guy]

California is drying up.

“This is a big deal,” California Governor Jerry Brown said at a ceremony Tuesday as he signed into law a trio of bills regulating, for the first time, the state’s groundwater use. As of Thursday, almost 60 percent of the state is facing "exceptional drought," the most severe level of dryness measured by the U.S. Drought Monitor.

But if you’re not living in a community dependent on bottled water rations, farming land that's projected to lose $800 million in crop revenue or watching raging wildfires ravage your drought-parched town, the historic California drought may still feel like little more than a headline.

To fully grasp how desperate California is for relief, we've created six before-and-after GIFs that will show you how badly the drought has dehydrated the state in just the last three years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/18/california-drought-gifs_n_5843534.html

BEST - Ron

[Ashotep]

Things are serious in California, if they don't start getting rain soon I don't know what they are going to do. People and crops can't survive without water.

[seeder]

Thats really quite alarming

[Raptor Witness]

The sky was shut over California's Gold Country in late 2011, and it will remain shut until the land under the feet of her inhabitants, begins to melt.