What's It Take?

What does it take to get some rain? In California, drought conditions persist. The news programs show rain and flooding in some areas of the country. Around here, there has been no appreciable rain since February. We have a few manditory water restrictions, and many more voluntary ones. The yard is dry, the lawns long dead. Certain areas of the yard, the soil is developing large cracks due to being so dry. We're still another month from the beginning of the "rain year", that is when they reset the rain amount to zero and start counting all over. The main rains don't usually come until later in the year. Hopefully they'll come early this year.