I’m sure many Utahns (certainly most New Englanders) will consider me crazy for saying so, but I’d kill to have a 30 inch snow storm in the Salt Lake Valley about now. (A couple of 15 inch storms 2 weeks apart would even be better, but still…).
We need the storms to clear out the air, we need more snow to replenish ground water, and we NEEEEEED much more snow in the mountains for the water to replenish reservoir levels in the spring, and to get the Great Salt Lake above historic lows.
And it would be lovely to have enough snow to have some well groomed XC ski areas without driving to the top of the canyons.
With the hubris of our legislators, even Mother Nature won’t be able to convince them. Keep growing and let it become someone else’s problem - there’s money to be made in property development!
If the drought continues the next few decades are going to be really interesting, especially for Vegas and Phoenix. There was a writer who said the wars in the future will be fought over water, maybe we’ll see something like that fairly soon.