In most places, torrential downpours, tornadoes, flash floods and mudslides would be about as welcome as the bubonic plague. In drought-parched California, however, such freakish weather has been greeted with jubilation. So far, what some residents are calling the "Miracle March" has brought three weeks of rain and almost doubled the state's normal monthly precipitation levels. The watery largesse resulted when a high-pressure system moved off the Pacific Coast, unleashing the storms that have drenched the state.
Predictions of a drought-induced economic disaster are being scaled back, and a few communities may loosen up their water restrictions. But state officials fear...
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