Weather

I don't have crops at stake or a well that needs replenishing, but that doesn't diminish the glee I felt when I woke up in the middle of the night last weekend to the sound of rain pounding my roof and soaking my parched yard.

Proposition 1 has passed, AP reports. It authorizes state officials to borrow $7.12 billion and repurpose $425 million in bonds approved earlier to pay for new water projects.

Californians continued to use less water in September, but the reductions were more modest than in the summer months, and water use varied greatly by community, officials said Tuesday.

They're the trees that gave this quaint Central Coast village its nickname: Cambria Pines by the Sea.

The grapevines needed to be covered. The last of the tomato harvest came to a halt. A corn maze turned to mud. The ink ran on a "Pray for Rain" sign in an orchard of dead citrus trees.