Rare summer rainstorms offered some relief this month from the dry spell that has gripped Southern California and the mountain community of Big Bear Lake.
“Nineteen seventy-seven, 2004, 2018 and then no this year are the four lowest times we’ve had since we started managing the lake and the water,” said Mike Stephenson, water district general manager. At Boulder Bay Park, the lake has receded so much that boat docks once floating are now resting in dirt. Two years ago, there was plenty of water for kayakers in the popular bay.
The water is really low there and it's taking a local toll. Tony Shin reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, May 10, 2022.Holly Cass owns Summit Real Estate Enterprises Inc. It has been a slow summer for vacation rentals, she said. Inflation, gas prices and an expanded range of vacation options as the pandemic slows might be factors in the slowdown, but Cass said the lake level is another hit for tourism. “We need a big winter, very big,” she said.
"If we get beyond this, we're going to have to get very creative, and we don't know what that is yet because we haven't been there,” Stephenson said. shows the San Bernardino County mountains and most of Southern California in severe drought, the second-most severe category in the weekly report’s four-category drought measurement system. More than 97 percent of the state is in severe drought. A swath of the Central Valley in the exceptional drought, the most severe category.
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