California is getting high

[!ski]

er ... longer skin tracks ...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140821141542.htm

Severe drought is causing the western US to rise like a spring uncoiling

Date:

August 21, 2014

Source:

University of California - San Diego

Summary:

The severe drought gripping the western United States in recent years is changing the landscape well beyond localized effects of water restrictions and browning lawns. Scientists have used GPS data to discover that the growing, broad-scale loss of water is causing the entire western US to rise up like an uncoiled spring.

[Paul Lutes]

.... or the valleys are subsiding, so the mountains just look taller.