El Niño No-Show Could Damage California’s Water Conservation Efforts

We have been snookered, hoodwinked, bamboozled and beguiled.
We bought a “Rolex” watch from some guy on the street corner. We believed we won millions in some foreign lottery. We gave money to the nice young man at the front door who said he was supporting an orphanage. We took financial advice from Bernie Madoff.

And when we were told we would be subjected to monster storms this winter, we believed it.
We repaired the roof and replaced the gutters. We laid in a supply of sandbags. We placed cisterns beneath the downspouts. We bought kayaks. We stopped conserving water.