All of us in the Central Valley (particularly the farmers) would appreciate you praying that some of the PNW rain would come down here.
We've done a fair amount of work in the United Arab Emirates over the years, and they get their fresh water mostly from huge desalinization plants. In fact, their desal plants are so strategic to their wealfare that they are tops on the the official list of things in the UAE you can't point a camera at. Serious penalties if you're caught doing it.
I've sometimes wondered why the US does not make use of this technology. I would think that a few desal plants on the scale of what's used in the UAE set up on SFO bay or in the delta area pumping through pipelines to the central valley would be able to provide a major source of water to the farmers and growers out there.
The little island in the San Juans on which we have property used to rely on a pair of wells for water. Every summer, the water levels would get lower and lower to the point where pretty severe restrictions had to be put on the people who had full or part time residences on the island.
Then in the late 1980s (IIRC), the owners association approved the installation of a small reverse osmosis desalinization system. I believe it was the first one in the San Juans, but I could be wrong. That one little plant provided more water than the island needed and the wells were shut down.
More recently, as the number of people using the island has increased somewhat, a second osmosis system was installed next to the first one. And I understand there are similar systems that have been installed on some of the other islands.
I would think a very much scaled up version of the same idea could be applied to the agriculture industry in California.
We actually don't get all that much rain in the PNW in the overall scheme of things. The rain doesn't really contribute all that much to our water supply, anyway. What does is the snow pack and the glaciers in the Cascades.
Unfortunately the glaciers have been receding at an increasing rate, so both the western side of the state and the agricultural region immediatly east of the Cascades (orchards, mainly) depend heavily on the annual snowpack for their water needs.
Some years the snowpack is very deep. Some years not so much. After a pretty good winter last year, they're saying that this winter will be "not so much." Which does not bode well for either side of the mountains.....