I was driving back south from NorCal on I5 Friday and it rained hard for about 45 minutes until I hit the 99 cutoff to Bakersfield. I'm hoping that the coast ranges between that area and the ocean got a decent dose of water. But weather.com says that Arroyo Grande got nothing on Friday? Maybe only the mountains got rain. Seal Beach where I am got about 1/3" of rain from this storm, but our only resident quail are on the Naval Weapons Station/Natnl. Wildlife Refuge (the Marines won't let me hunt 'em--I already asked.).

I'm gonna be up in Limestone Canyon at dawn Tuesday morning checking camera traps and will listen and look real hard for quail.

Chuck, I assume your interest in cheat grass is chukar-related?