Everything is so wet and green now I'd just be watering puddles if I turned on the irrigation. I feel like we've gotten over the hump and saved the yard from the drought of the century. So far anyway.

What is strange for our lawn is it's going brown now but stayed green for the last year without us every watering it.

I don't know if the cold finally got it. It's definitely turning brown. Don't know if this rain is going to wake it back up.

The drought is a long term climate issue; the recent rainfall is a short term weather event. Let's not get ahead of ourselves and celebrate a "fix" to anything.
Though I do think we MV residents do owe ourselves a nice pat on the back for being responsive and responsible to the local situation. I mean reducing our rates of water usage better than required. Well done us!

You'd be an idiot to run your sprinklers anyway, even if not for the drought. The ground is soaked!

I have a neighbor, who rents their home, who still has their sprinklers running on a timer everyday even when it's raining. Worse is that the sprinklers don't even align to water the grass, but water the sidewalks instead with all the water running down the storm drain. Despite many calls to the city's hotline, nothing has changed even after the city has come out an put door tags on the residence. The problem is that there is no bite to the city's enforcement.

Drought's over people.

So Tommy, How do you define a drought being over?

If it stopped raining today do you think we would have sufficient amounts of water stored for the rest of the year?
That's what it will mean when the drought is actually over. Please clarify, you may have your own definition of the drought being over, one that is different from all the experts in this area?