There was actually a Slight Risk area for severe weather in the upper half of the central valley, including a possible threat of tornadoes -- unusual for the area.
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)
