It's hot, but, because there are no dams, electricity costs have tripled, so no one can use air conditioning. Oh, yes, the water rationing. Forget about it. I close my business on the coldest days. Food costs have increased.
Spring appears and the huge snowpack melts all at once, flooding everything in sight.
Government wrings their hands and forms committees to solve the problem. Oh, by the way, we found out salmon would rather migrate to Canada and Alaska despite massive human intervention to make it look like the right idea at the time. Oh, for the good ol' days of 1999. It be appreciated there was an editorial on the editorial page, acknowledging such. But, suggest, that not sufficient.