During the fires this year, my local city hall sent updates via text messages to let residents know what roads were closed, the status of all the blazes and other fire-related information. Imagine my surprise when just three days earlier, I started getting local government messages about all the snow clogging up the 14 Freeway and the Antelope Valley. I also knew of several people who were snowed in. They couldn’t leave their homes and drive into LA proper for work.

To play with a well-known movie quote, Is this really the desert of the real?