http://www.newsweek.com/lake-tulare-california-filling-water-return-1795617 > California has just seen one of the wettest periods in recent memory. The rain battering the state has filled many of the state's drought-stricken reservoirs, and some are overflowing for the first time in a decade. > And Tulare Lake, in the San Joaquin Valley, is even appearing as if from nowhere. But the lake has actually been there for years.