let s go to mike in los angeles with more on this. you re feeling it aren t you, mike? we really are. the weather looks beautiful, alex but you have to look beyond that to the consequences of this drought. there had been droughts in the past and some bad ones but as you said nothing like this at least according to records that go back well over a century. one official said that in terms of potential economic impact and the difficulty of any recovery at that point, this has to be looked at the same way as a significant earthquake. for ventura county avocado farmer the drum beat of bad news rapidly shrinking reservoirs the extreme drought map, spells disaster for more than this growing season. these growers and the industry as a whole are going to be affected at least three years because this situation we re in right now today. he has been relying on county water for irrigation and hasn t been shut off yet.