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Below is a pic of Lake Tahoe taken earlier this fall. Lake Tahoe is the 6th largest lake in North America after the 5 Great Lakes.

An article in Yahoo today said that since this past Monday night through this morning (Wednesday) a heavy storm in the area has dropped over 6 billion gallons of water that has made its way into Lake Tahoe. The 6 billion gallons raised the lake level about 2".

Looking at the pic it appears that the lake level at the piers are nearly 4 feet below normal. The lake might need another 150 Billion Gallons or so to get back to normal.

If Lake Tahoe needs 150 Billion Gallons of water to get back to normal, the entire State of California might take nearly a decade or more of normal rainfall to make up the drought losses.