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Then there's the downside: Given water, seeds with germinate and low-level vegetation will grow to enable more field fires.

A few decades ago a wet winter produced some pretty severe fires that took out a lot of nice homes and severely lowered the elevation of some of the lots they'd been built on. And the immediate warning was that all the wet would produce a lot of verdant growth and wildflowers that would, in the fall, turn into brown combustible material.

That's the Southland. It's adapted specifically to have fires. Many Angelenos have basically found a new way to replicate the risk houseowners have in much wetter states, of building low in a flood plain.