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Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. Today, water managers in california were taking a look at the historic drought trying to figure out how much relief the state got from a weekend storm. A weather phenomenon known as the Pineapple Express brought moisture from hawaii. In some places, more moisture than they can handle. John blackstone is by the river side in marin county. John . Reporter scott, after 14 months of virtually no rain here, the Pineapple Express turned out to be the perfect storm. The rain is gone now, but the runoff is still flowing into this reservoir in ma rib county north of san francisco. The reservoirs on marin countys Mount Tamalpais was getting low at the end of last week. That changed when the rain started friday night. Mike swayze is watershed manager. We got in excess of 20 inches in the storm total. Reporter is that unprecedented here . I dont know of any more intense event than that. Reporter the reservoirs here supply water to 185,000 people. W

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