Welcome Rains Flood into Lake Travis Texas! Hurricane Rick is hovering over Central Texas right now and has brought the area several inches of rain. The heavy rain has fallen over two important watersheds that flow into Lake Travis. The Pedernales (pronounced Purdanaless for you non-Texans) River rose 15 feet which brings welcome relief to a drought-stricken area. This river flows directly into Lake Travis. The Colorado River also received its fair share of rainfall. The Colorado River creates the Highland Lakes chain, of which Lake Travis is one of the down stream links.
Flood gates are open on the upstream lakes due to area flooding, and that water is now flowing into a very thirsty Lake Travis. The lake level yesterday was 632 feet above sea level, and the lake is predicted to rise one foot per hour throughout today. One news station reported a 12 feet rise by midnight tonight. The other news station said that LCRA (the authority that controls the floodgates) has not finished its calculations on predicted lake levels but is saying a one foot per hour rise will continue throughout the day. The rain continues to fall over the Hill Country as of 6:30 am this morning.
Lake Travis has plenty of capacity for this flood because the lake level is nearly 50 feet below full pool level. Lake area residents and businesses welcome any rise on the lake and would love to see 50 feet of water come on down!
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Dianne, we are getting hammered right now as well in NE Houston. Started late last night and is still coming down...what a huge blessing!!!
I hope you do get caught up with all the rain you have lacked this summer. We were down to Austin for the Mega Agent Camp and it was so dry back in August. Hopefully, you will not get flooded out, but get that moisture deficit made up.