As a series of major winter storms sweep over the West Coast this week, anxious Californians are looking back at the flash floods and the "thousand-year" deluge that shocked San Diego a week ago, and Oxnard a few weeks earlier, wondering what's in store.
We should welcome the wet weather because California depends for most of its annual water supply on winter storms that roll in across the Pacific or sweep down from Alaska. Nevertheless, as cars bobbing down inundated city streets in San Diego vividly demonstrated, the state is not adequately prepared to deal with extreme weather events, especially the turbocharged storms that human-caused climate change can deliver.
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