article_snippet.sent: Much needed: Gilbert Jaffe, a retired Satellite Engineer at Lockheed Martin, collects rain water from his sidewalk into his back garden in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles Tuesday as rains moved down from Northern California .
article_snippet.sent: Jaffe, was scooping up buckets of the stuff during brief rains Tuesday night and carrying at least one car into barrels in Jaffe backyard near downtown Los Angeles. '
article_snippet.sent: I've been collecting water for a couple of years,' Jaffe said. '
article_snippet.sent: Jaffe said Jaffe'd been watering Jaffe tomatoes and peppers for six weeks with rain Jaffe collected during a bigger storm in February, and hoped Jaffe new take could continue Jaffe no-tap-water streak.