El Nino Warnings With Mud

The Golden State has been in a prolonged drought

A lack of rain and acres burned by wildfire continuing to mount

More and more a state of brown as plants wither and cling barely to life

Rationing of water and higher prices adding to our daily strife

Parched lands, forests and farmers looking to El Nino as the second coming of an Aquatic Christ

Especially those growing almonds or worse growing rice

The now Brown State is the bread basket for many of the nation’s crops

Without an end to the drought this misery will grow and not stop

Conservation and dying lawns will help the lack of water  but will not solve

The increase in wildfires burnt homes and crop losses can only into chaos devolve

With the ground rock hard and moisture unable to retain

Mother Nature in the LA Basin dumped on us a ton of rain

Not to trickle down and the water table restore

But a sea of mud with Noah like lore

Blocking freeways and highway in a gooey lethal mess

While the end of the drought it did not address

Only a warning that in later months El Nino may be boring down us like an out of control freight train

Bringing increasing amounts of torrential almost monsoon like rain

© October 16, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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