Snowmelt entering Big Creek's hydroelectric powerhouses has slowed to a trickle. Reservoirs sit at their lowest levels ever.
The 102-year-old central-California complex owned and operated by Southern California Edison lost 80 percent of its hydroelectric power this year, a direct result of a persistent drought that has wiped clean the Sierra Nevada snowpack and produced an eerie silence inside Big Creek's 27 damns and nine powerhouses.
