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DROUGHTS AND STORMS Why the Drought Continues to Loom Large Despite Recent Rainfall she walked a trail in San Antonio Park last month. In addition, the entire Frerelentless series of tormont Union High School Disrential storms in recent trict was hit by internet outages months appear to have caused by a downed power line, washed away California’s water intensifying the situation. Due to woes—at least for now. Many the heavy reliance on technology associate the precipitation with in Silicon Valley schools, Monta the end of the drought, which THE GROUND Vista and Lynbrook High School forced many Californians to JUST COULDN’T SOAK were compelled to cancel school restrict their water use for IN ALL THE WATER for their students. Unfortunateyears. BECAUSE IT WAS ly, CHS faced a similar problem, In a self -proleading to a disruption in the acAFTER ademic activities of its students. duced televised RAINSTORM statement, Gov. RAINSTORM. “We can’t really do anything Gavin Newsom here usually,” said Patrick HanMEGAN AZRALON lifted the manson. As part of CHS’s Technology datory water Support Staff, he and Kyle Le are restrictions, due fected the students at Cupertino responsible for addressing any to the historical rain High School. The rain affected the technology-related issues at Tino, and snowfall, but stopped students’ daily routines and dis- ranging from internet connectivshort of declaring the end rupted their extracurricular activ- ity to printer malfunctions and to the historically long ities. Swimming, soccer, softball, Chromebook troubleshooting. drought. baseball and Tino Dhadkan were Hanson explained that the inter“Are we among the sports and clubs af- net at FUHSD originates from a out of the fected. Falling trees endangered central point at the district office, drought? homes, roads and the people which is then “relayed” to each Is the near them. A cupertino wom- campus and passed on to Wireless an was killed by a falling tree as Access Points installed in every ALEXANDER LIU
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drought over,” Newsom asked rehtorically. “It would be nice to have a governor say that the drought is over. But unfortunately, complication requires nuance.” The persistent rain and strong winds undoubtedly af-
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D0 (Abnormally Dry) D1 (Moderate Drought) D2 (Severe Drought) D3 (Extreme Drought) D4 (Exceptional The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agrculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Map courtesy of NDMC.