ECONOMY - HELP!!

Mother Nature is NOT helping the Tuolumne County economy.  OUR unemployment rate is already close to the highest in the State of CA.  No SNOW means many things - no winter customers for another Holiday Weekend, no snow for CalTrans to plow so they are doing all of their SPRING crack filling (what will they have to do in the Spring?), no Room Tax to be collected for Tuolumne County yet the county's infrastructure costs continue.  Is this that "trickle down" theory that the media likes to discount as being a false economic theory?  The media should have to actually put feet on the ground and see the ghost towns caused by Mother Nature withholding the SNOW from the Sierra!

PLEASE send some prayers that it snows SOON in the Sierras, even the ski areas with snow making equipment must be spending wheel burrow loads of money for water and power to build a carpet down the center of their runs in hopes of getting SOME business. 

The other SERIOUS issue with no SNOW is NO WATER for the summer in the areas downhill from the Sierras.  We were congratulating ourselves that two years of exceptional snow fall had ENDED the drought.  Not so fast said Mother Nature - hope you saved some of that record water for the next round of drought! Of course, it has often snowed the entire month of March, but the skiing only lasts until the Spring activities begin - softball, boating, fishing, gardening!!   We will hope and pray that March is again super wet, if only for the water needs of our "desert environment" where we attempt to pretend that green grass is a constitutional right!!  OR worse yet starve the farmers of the Central Valley where all the FOOD is grown using water from the mountains!!  FOOD GROWS where WATER FLOWS!!