It's been pouring rain for a couple of months and it's not even the first of February. We're looking at two months, February and March, that have the potential to be as crummy as we already have had.

Usually January and February are slow months, but not this year.

Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach! The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs And tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

If it doesn't rain much more over the next couple of months, we'll probably be in conservation-restriction mode by summer.

Things are looking very promising. It looks like the fragmentation has passed. For the last couple of months, all the different parties involved have been pulling together.