Lake Travis is a flood control lake that is 62 miles long from dam to dam. It has areas that are almost 200' deep when full. Right now, it is about 30% full and dropping daily. We need a flood to fill it again. Last two floods, Austin was lucky it was at a low level when the floods hit, or it would have gone over Mansfield Dam and flooded the lower parts of the city.
I have two stock tanks on the land I own about 80 miles from my home. I can go there if things get bad here, and live off the land. I just need to start a garden there and visit it more often.
You know we have 22 acres about 10 miles from us that we could do something with. It has a creek. In fact my property line runs through the middle of the creek, and goes uphill. It’s the back up in case we have to vacate the house do to some natural disaster.
So what about your stock tanks? Are they full of water? What about mosquitos? Are you raising fish in them? Doing anything else with them?
I am thinking that if we went in and planted some native fruit trees, like paw paw’s and some nut trees edible weeds LOL etc. It would be a good idea. Wouldn’t need much tending
and we could make a trip or two to harvest what the critters leave.
Then we would have plenty of critters for eating and some fruits, nuts, and greens to go with the squirrel stew.LOL