California Governor Jerry Brown officially declared that the state's drought is over after an overwhelmingly wet winter. The mountains are packed full of snow, reservoirs are filling up and rivers are raging on. After four extraordinarily dry years, this is a welcomed change.
It is one thing to hear this news from a politician... It is another to see it for yourself. So we've compiled before and after photos of Lake Oroville, the reservoir hit the hardest with both drought issues as well as flooding problems. See the pictures below, with the final photos showing how the flooding collapsed Oroville Dam's emergency spillway:
