On February 18th, 1986, U.S. district court judge Samuel King, unhappy with juror absences due to rain, decreed "I hereby order that it will cease raining by Tuesday." California suffered through drought until February 27th, 1991, when King ordered that "rain shall fall in California beginning February 27, 1991", whereupon four inches of rain fell on the state. King noted that these events were "proof positive that we are a nation governed by laws."