[janetjanet998]

I should note that LCRA isn’t following its own flood protocol with states that only 30,000 cfs outlow until the lake hits 710

I believe they are concerned that there is a chance the Lake could over top the spillway

I should note: the Max outflow of Lake Travis is around 100,000 cfs which they will only do if the Dam is in Danger

I suspect the outflows from Lake Buchanan will be redcued soon

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[rktman]

Hope Cen-Tejas is high and dry. Got these the last couple days:

we got ten inches this week. Lake Travis is nearing an all time high having risen 30’ in something like 48 hours. That’s a 65 mile long and deep lake. Dam’s up the Colorado River west of Austin.

It may go over the spillway which in it’s 80 odd years I don’t believe has ever happened.

And this:

I live around 800 above sea level. All this is going on around 650 50 750 ten miles away. But, its huge. Hundreds of boats and docks got washed down the river, bridges destroyed that had been around 75 years and many helicopter rescues. I haven’t heard of anyone killed yet.

[Responsibility2nd]

Thanks for posting this.

Since the first of September rainfall amounts have been much higher than normal here in the Texas Hill Country.

Things could get worse before they get any better.

[zeugma]

We had a dry summer here in DFW, enough to wipe out a bunch of my lawn. October, on the other hand, has been pretty much nonstop rain. That’s pretty much the way it works here in Texas. You get one or the other.

[hadaclueonce]

Texas is a desert with an flood every once in awhile.

It is terrible. You folks in California should move some where else.

[cweese]

I’ve lived in Austin since 1983 and remember the 1991 flooding of Lake Travis. We walked to the midway point across Mansfield Dam and were amazed at the amount of water they were letting out (I believe only 6 of the gates were opened at that time). This recent series of storms, by comparison, seems to be much more severe and I hope LCRA can manage this properly.

[eastexsteve]

Does this mean that the Austin area drought caused by man-made global warming is over?

[JimRed]

Can we hope that bright blue Austin will be washed out of red Texas?

[fella]

S#!thole East is getting an over due cleaning.

[prairiebreeze]

Thanks for the thread. Should Lake Travis breach....God forbid....where would be the likeliest affected areas?

Thanks in advance to anybody who is more knowledgeable of the geography than I am.

[BlueLancer]

It’s going to be real difficult for me to care any less than I already do about Antifa Austin being flooded out ...

[dfwgator]

This thread is just begging for some SRV....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtLwuPCUEdg

[Elsie]

COLORADO?

I guess it’s NOT the one thru the Grand Canyon

[WildHighlander57]

And FEMA is no help:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10160901546795655&id=508930654

What a mess....