October 16, 20187 yr 4 minutes ago, Anastasis said: so we're like one more rain event away from some crazy shit going down, huh? Pretty much. Every lake and river everywhere is at flood stage or worse at this point. There's just no where to put the water. Travis is a more a pass through than anything. It's Lake Austin folks that could have some real headaches soon.
October 16, 20187 yr 47 minutes ago, hornian said: So is Buchanan. They've been doing work on Buchanan Dam and need it at 1018 or less. As said before, it isn't designed to hold much more, either. They pull the trigger on those gates quickly, and there's a lot of them. Edited October 16, 20187 yr by Deej
October 17, 20187 yr The difference of water on Lake Travis beteen 665’ and 685’ is VASTLY different from 685’ to 705’. A lot more water is going to go into Travis over the next few days but unless something drastic happens, the elevation increase should begin to slow considerably due to the amount of “horizontal” acreage. Not all feet are created equal when it comes to Lake Travis and Mansfield Dam. Edited October 17, 20187 yr by Chet Steadman
October 17, 20187 yr 687 and climbing. Fourth gate open now at Mansfield. Buchanan holding until the next Llano crest later tonight. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
October 17, 20187 yr 8 minutes ago, troph said: Just amazing really. 651-652 to 687 in no time. Incredible. 687 is so 1.5 hours ago. Kissing up against 689 now. Llano is still flowing at 2.5 AC-FT/Sec with the Colorado arm about to start ripping as well. Edited October 17, 20187 yr by USCATX
October 17, 20187 yr Welp, looks like that image auto updates, so as I type there's no longer much dark orange in the Lake B. basin. But that's better, lower projected rainfall through Fri.
October 17, 20187 yr 4 hours ago, clapclapclap said: Because it is 8 inches from full Your mom was 8 inches from full before she met me. Just kidding. I’m only average, so I barely crest at 7.5”.
October 17, 20187 yr Friend is saying Backbone Creek inside of Marble Falls proper is flooding homes. So those folks are potentially getting it from both sides. That could hit near Blue Bonnet Cafe. And LCRA must be getting a lot of questions about Buchanan.
October 17, 20187 yr They posted this a little earlier. Quote Flood operations at Buchanan Dam began at 10 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16. LCRA plans to open one floodgate an hour for four hours, for a total of four floodgates. Take action to protect people and property. The gates will be opened in this order: 10 p.m.: One gate from the 14-gate section. 11 p.m.: One gate from the 16-gate section. Midnight: One gate from the 14-gate section. 1 a.m.: One gate from the 16-gate section. Lake Buchanan is forecast to rise to 1,018 to 1,020 feet msl and then be gradually drawn by flood releases to 1,018 feet msl over the following day or two.
October 17, 20187 yr What the hell is up with their projections - lake travis will be between 690-695 over the next 2 days, shit is already at almost 692. Just got done cleaning out the garage & hoping no water is in the house in a few hours, but if it keeps coming a ft an hour, it will be. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
October 17, 20187 yr Just checked out the trail to see how high the damn water is getting. Too damn high. And rising. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
October 17, 20187 yr There is more water coming into Lake Travis than they are releasing. 700 ft is possible.
October 17, 20187 yr There is more water coming into Lake Travis than they are releasing. 700 ft is possible.Ya. It’s still rising at a foot an hour rate. And more water on the way. 700 seems likely. And that’s crazy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
October 17, 20187 yr 9 hours ago, NaTeWHO said: Long way to go for that... Top 10 highest levels for Lake Travis Rank Date Height (msl) 1 Dec. 25, 1991 710.44 2 May 18, 1957 707.38 3 June 25, 1997 705.11 4 Feb. 9, 1992 704.68 5 July 6, 2007 701.51 6 Nov. 25, 2004 696.70 7 July 7, 2002 693.50 8 June 14, 1987 693.48 9 June 16, 2016 692.69 10 Oct. 7, 1959 692.58 Wed 12:30AM - Just moved above 693. to 693.16 9th highest All Time!!! Only 0.32 short of the 7th all time highest level. I'm not sure how much the volume increases, but it's still going up more than a foot an hour and there is rain forecast for days. seems like 700 is possible.
October 17, 20187 yr Lcra just updated the forecast. Expected to reach 700 feet by noon on the 17th. and expected to keep rising beyond that. At least they left it open ended this time. they were too specific before. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
October 17, 20187 yr 696.23 right now at 6:40 AM. Definitely slowing. If we can avoid major rains for a few days that would be helpful. (Obligatory: It's never going to stop raining again)
October 17, 20187 yr 7 minutes ago, utee94 said: 696.23 right now at 6:40 AM. Definitely slowing. If we can avoid major rains for a few days that would be helpful. (Obligatory: It's never going to stop raining again) Radar shows rain over the areas that they don’t need it in. Hopefully it’s sporadic enough though.
October 17, 20187 yr Yeah, it's gonna rain over the next few days. Just hoping it's minor, comparatively.
October 17, 20187 yr Friend of mine was displaced around the LBJ area, house was flooded out. Said there were looters running around the neighborhood already. Her bf stayed behind, so hopefully those looters got a few ounces of lead, too. Also, Travis is at 696.42, and OU STILL SUCKS Edited October 17, 20187 yr by PvilleStang
October 17, 20187 yr Update: Today the rain won't be heavy. Tomorrow, it's probably going to be. more later
October 17, 20187 yr Just now, phdhorn said: Update: Today the rain won't be heavy. Tomorrow, it's probably going to be. more later Can we please have light, or no, rain out at COTA from FRI-SUN? Thanks in advance.
October 17, 20187 yr BTW: Quote Wednesday, October 17 6:00pm *Cancelled* - Round Rock Flood/Flash Flood Training, City of Round Rock - Click Here for Details WhenWed, October 17, 6pm – 8pm Where 30.541815, -97.688291 (map) DescriptionFlood and Flash Flood Training This is cancelled....due to weather. It may be rescheduled. Location: Round Rock Public Safety Training Center 2801 N. Mays Round Rock, TX 78665 Time: cancelled. Notes: This is Flood and Flash Flood Training. The National Weather Service is teaming up with the City of Round Rock to present a training solely talking about flooding issues, the meteorology behind flooding and the impacts to Travis and Williamson County. Details will be presented to the audience on how the citizens can get flood updates and get notifications from the city, county, and the National Weather Service
October 17, 20187 yr 14 hours ago, Texas Jeff said: Crazy numbers. One acre-foot of water is 43,460 cubic feet of water. Today, the Llano River is dumping 3-4 cubic acres of water into Lake LBJ per second, or around 13 thousand cubic-acres per hour, or around Jimmy's number of 310K acre feet per day. Lake Travis was 77% full yesterday and it's full today. Rain is in the forecast off and on for the next four days. Time to root for the forcefield. Jesus this math makes my head hurt. Thank god you aren't an engineer.
October 17, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, utee94 said: 696.23 right now at 6:40 AM. Definitely slowing. If we can avoid major rains for a few days that would be helpful. (Obligatory: It's never going to stop raining again) Now a slug released from Buchanan is coming downstream. And seems like it will keep raining up north of that today. More water on the way for Lake Travis.
October 17, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, HOOKEM4 said: Jesus this math makes my head hurt. Thank god you aren't an engineer. How do you know he's not? Edited October 17, 20187 yr by hornian
October 17, 20187 yr Starting to open more gates at Buchanan (4 currently to 8 gates by 1pm today) LT at 697.2 Edited October 17, 20187 yr by texhorn
October 17, 20187 yr 3 minutes ago, texhorn said: Starting to open more gates at Buchanan (4 currently to 8 gates by 1pm today) LT at 697.2 hold on to your butts
October 17, 20187 yr 8 minutes ago, texhorn said: Starting to open more gates at Buchanan (4 currently to 8 gates by 1pm today) LT at 697.2 holy shit.
October 17, 20187 yr 20 minutes ago, hornian said: How do you know he's not? I would think a basic requirement would be to know what an acre foot equals Edited October 17, 20187 yr by HOOKEM4
October 17, 20187 yr I am sure that this is common knowledge here, but the LCRA flood status page and hydromet are fucking awesome. I watch this shit all day during these events. https://floodstatus.lcra.org/ https://hydromet.lcra.org/
October 17, 20187 yr Just now, Anastasis said: I am sure that this is common knowledge here, but the LCRA flood status page and hydromet are fucking awesome. I watch this shit all day during these events. https://floodstatus.lcra.org/ https://hydromet.lcra.org/ It really is. Harris county flood website should take notes.
October 17, 20187 yr 1 minute ago, UTEX_ME said: It really is. Harris county flood website should take notes. They have one?
October 17, 20187 yr 16 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said: A very Starcke contrast. The music on that youtube vid is completely unnecessary, but otherwise cool video. And great pun.
October 17, 20187 yr So according to uslakes.com, Travis went from 667 to 691 yesterday. Twenty four fucking feet in 24 hours. Is that the largest single-day rise in history? Even the memorial day flood didn't put this much water in the lake. Did the Lake Travis basin just get hammered in a way that we didn't get it in Austin? It's been raining on and off, sometimes heavy, but it hasn't seemed like this has been a particularly catastrophic amount of rain. Was it just that the ground was already saturated? This seems like a lot of water from not a "noah's arc" amount of rain.
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