California Brownout

摘要

It was no joke. on april 1, California governor Jerry Brown accompanied state surveyors on their annual measurement of the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides 30 percent of the state's water. In the past, the snowpack on this date has averaged more than five feet, but as California entered its fourth year of drought, the governor stood not on snow but on bare grass. The snowpack across the Sierra Nevada measured under two inches-an official with the Department of Water Resources joked that the mountains should be called "Sierra Nada."