I was just teasing. Even us Yanks know that Molson is low grade. I remember it being made fun of by students who lived close to the Canadian border when I went to college in upstate NY in the 80’s, along with Genesee and Labatt’s. I’m not a huge beer drinker but when I do drink I prefer craft beers or Guinness. When I lived in Seattle craft beers were really big.
Now go find your Kebeky Sheila and have yerself a wee pint. 
I look at these pictures and what I see is water, CA needs water, but trying to deal with this much water all at once…
We’re going to keep getting bizarre weather events as the climate continues to rapidly change. The Arctic is not able to contain all that cold Arctic air due to a meandering and stalled out Jetstream, so cold air is going to keep escaping and spilling southward, just like warmer air is making it further north and melting the ice.
We’re at the threshold of cascading systems collapse starting with the Arctic which is going to have a domino effect around the world. The AMOC is in the process of shutting down, the rainforest in South America is about to turn into a carbon source which will kill biodiversity, the Great Barrier Reef is in the middle of it’s 7th bleaching event and will die etc.
We have until about 2035 before societal collapse is upon us and, global emissions are still rising at an exponential rate.
Have a Great Weekend! 
They have reservoirs that have been scary low for years. The snow melts into July, which means the rivers get good flow into July.
It looks like my hood on a good day in winter.
Yes I understand the water shortage that the West has been going through. I understand that the aquafers are also low. But when this amount of snow melts it creates more water than even a parched land can handle. And when this amount of snow measured in feet and not inches, melts it creates it’s disaster event.
There really is no way to prepare for what is coming.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately:
The Del Valle Reservoir that serves us is over full and the water district has been releasing water since the January 1st storms. We see all of that water rushing through the “dry creek” on its way to the bay and wish that there was some way it could be saved to replenish the aquifers.
(My husband says the amount of water in the creek now is the same as what it was when he was a kid in the 60’s & 70’s…we’ve discovered that the trail we -used- to walk on everyday is actually smack dab in the middle of a flood plain…when there’s water, that is…)
I have lived in my house for just over 60 years. Six feet from the side of my house is creek which is the storm water drainage for a third of my town.
This past July we had two major rain events, the first dumped the largest amount of rain on the north part of the county, and a week later another storm came through and dumped a lot of water on my southern part of the county. It happened overnight, when I woke up the next morning, I got out of bed and started to go downstair. Before I even hit the hallway, I turned around and decide I should put some work clothes on instead of just my jammies. I feared that I might have water inside my house on the first floor. Happy to say I didn’t, but the water only had to rise another half inch before entering my house. I did find water in my floor vents, I don’t have a basement thank God.
What clued me into “this could be bad, very bad, and put some real clothes on” is the sound of my creek. The creek is 6’ from the side of my house, and I sleep on that side that overlooks the creek. I’ve never heard the sound of that amount of water rushing through the creek in the 60 years I’ve lived here.
What is coming? Meltwater runoff? They are prepared, and have been for decades. The disaster porn flooding shots you’ve been seeing recently are from coastal towns whose runoff is directly from low mountains that do not accumulate snow, thus the runoff happens all at once in the week immediately after the heavy rain event.
Yucaipa’s a pretty rural area. At least it was when I lived in SoCal
I lived most of my life in California. Cities there are notorious for building major housing projects in the floodplains of rivers and in San Diego, the largest river is itself full of housing developments. Floods exactly like this are a regular and common occurrence in Cali
Nor is it all that unusual for the California mountains. Mammoth Lakes is a major ski resort. 14’ of snow hasn’t been the norm in recent years but it’s not all that unusual. The Angeles Mountains (behind the Hollywood sign) had snow like that every winter when I lived in Pasadena in the 1980s
We called our “dry” basement in Central IL, the indoor swimming pool during snow melt offs and summer storms 
An elderly acquaintance who lives along the creek had a similar experience as you. Fortunately, her neighbors had put out sandbags for protection. She says the sound from her window is like a continuous roar. She has lived there for about 40 years.
This particular weather event is from a 3-year La Niña. While you’re certainly right about the wandering polar vortex, that’s a stratospheric event most to the time. The cycle of La Niñas and El Niños in California is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that’s been documented since the gold-rush era. It’s not always this dramatic, but neither is this year’s flooding and snow all that unusual. My sister and I (who grew up in SoCal) were laughing on the phone the other day about the photos of deep snowfall … at ski resort towns. Donner Pass is in California, afterall
It was the sound of the water that scared the shit out of me.
El Niño/La Nina events are always cycling in the background affecting weather, but Climate Change amplifies droughts and flooding by adding more energy and moisture to the atmosphere.
No single weather event, by itself is evidence of Climate Change, but a warming climate makes severe weather events much more likely and more severe.
“ Let’s take the IPCC assessment and say the best we can do is 2050. Now, that’s not good enough, but let’s just take this because a lot of people, a lot of countries are saying net-zero by 2050. Alright, that’s a reaction time of thirty years. Actually now, it’s twenty… twenty-eight years. Ah, but, what are the intervention times to stop tipping points?
OK, Arctic Sea ice: I think we’re right at it now – I think we’re… I think it’s zero. I think within this decade that’s, that’s going to tip, and I think by 2040 or 2050 you’ll see an ice-free Arctic Sea.
West Antarctic ice sheet – about three metres of sea level rise. I think within ten years, um… that’s going to look over it’s tipping point, and we will be committed to losing it.
Amazon forest – I estimated fifteen years… ”
Which haven’t happened this very wet winter. And my question to the poster remains, what is the rain dooooom coming that they cannot be prepared for?