I had the runs most days for about a year and I finally went to the doc who sent me to the GI doc who said "colonoscopy" which said "nothing to see here but a few polyps we removed". I asked "what about the constant runs?" "Dunno--no signs of IBD--just IBS-D I guess". $2500.

I figured it out. Apparently sometime the prior year or two I developed an intolerance to jalapenos. As I did Mexican or spicy chinese every three days, or so, it was just a constant issue.

Removing Jalepenos from the diet didn't totally fix the problem, but it's much better.

Sierra snow won't help Lake Mead.

The sad thing is California uses the lion's share of the Colorado River, and their rainfall contributes essentially nothing to it. They consume all the rain falling on their own state, and most of what falls on Utah, Arizona, and Western Colorado.

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/colorado-river-basin-map

You know what they always say, the first $100M is the hardest.