In a typical year, snow starts late in October with patchy snow until around Christmas, more snow in January and the most snow in February at which time it isn't as bad because the temperature has risen. This year we had one small storm on Christmas Eve but nothing since then until Monday. Now it has snowed pretty much every day since Monday, with increasing snow totals each day. Today we have had at least 5 inches already and more is expected tomorrow.
The meteorologists haven't made any statements about snow depth or water forecasts but before the snow started this week our water resources were less than 25% of needed and normal. That doesn't seem to matter to folks around here who continue to plant grass and water with abandon as if Utah is Brittany or something.
Yes, water is one of the reasons my husband and I are leaving but it has more to do with the attitude toward water than the availability of water. We xeriscaped our yard when we moved in and we only use landscape water for our tomatoes. We keep plastic bottles around the sinks to hold the water that flows before the water gets hot and a bucket in the upstairs shower we use for the same reason. We have low flow toilets. The only thing we don't do is harvest water but we did that in our former house.
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