The past few weeks have been tough for Californians who are not used to intense rainfall. Many could not go anywhere due to the flooding throughout the state and major cities. Parts of Los Angeles County experienced flooding which is very odd for a typically sunny place where people tend to worry about droughts.

Jeremiauh Guzman, who is a real estate major at Cal State LA, shares how it went for him.

“I still would go outside, I had no choice,” Guzman said. “It was tough especially with how the sidewalks and streets were impossible to walk on in my neighborhood in Westlake.”

For some it was tough to deal with the flooding, but others didn’t have to deal with the issues of driving and getting soaked.

“I was only taking an online winter class so I didn’t really go out too much,” Leyla Huite said. “When it was raining extremely hard and got very windy, there was no chance my parents were going to allow me to drive when the streets were looking like pools.”

Even still, Huite, who is an undecided major, said the sound of the rain fall calms her down and makes her want to sleep all day.

Professor Arturo Zepeda, who teaches Chicano Studies, also struggled with the recent rain.

“I was teaching a winter class online, but I would still go out, but of course driving cautiously because the streets were horrible,” Zepeda said. “I enjoy the rainy weather, but I am also glad it didn’t happen when I had to go on campus because it wasn’t very safe to be on the streets when the roads were hard to drive on.”

The good that came from all that rain is that the drought that has been hurting the environment of the state gave a relief to many areas where it had been very dry for such a long time.

The spike in rain helped counter the drought issues that California had been dealing with for years, according to the Guardian.