FOUR straight days of rain replenishes Northern California reservoirs

 

Four straight days of rain have replenished several key reservoirs in  Norther n California delighting a state in its fifth year of drought and raising hopes that water-use restrictions might be eased.

The series of storms that started late last week drenched the state, closing roads and schools while causing flooding and power outages.

Northern California was the hardest hit over four days. Other parts of the state saw the heaviest rainfall late last week.

Forecasters had issued an avalanche warning that expired Monday  March 14,2016 along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, where the highest peaks received up to 5 feet of snow over the weekend. 

The cracked-dry bed of the Almaden Reservoir in 2014 in San Jose, California and (below photo) the same Almaden Reservoir full of water on Monday, March 14, 2016