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Title: Woooo flood gates open!
Post by horns98 on Oct 22^nd, 2009 at 8:05am

Upstream from Lake Travis caught some heavy flooding and they are opening the flood gates to let Lake Travis ease the reservoirs upstream. Supposedly is going to raise a foot an hour today and later this morning we'll get a solid projection for a total increase.

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/hill_country/floodgates_open_during_flash_flooding

I hope everyone who had exposed boats and docks got everything secured.

Title: Re: Woooo flood gates open!
Post by Nitro1 on Oct 22^nd, 2009 at 10:55am

That's fantastic! Might even see a ramp open if that's true.

Title: Re: Woooo flood gates open!
Post by Nitro1 on Oct 22^nd, 2009 at 11:25am

Just read they expect it to rise to 644! That's good enough to open most ramps.

Title: Re: Woooo flood gates open!
Post by Shaka on Oct 22^nd, 2009 at 1:20pm

Yahoo!

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/weather/entries/2009/10/22/lcra_opens_floo_1.html

Title: Re: Woooo flood gates open!
Post by Captain YARRR on Oct 22^nd, 2009 at 5:49pm

I like the infographic from that last article. It looks like Travis is the only lake in the system not near capacity!

Title: Re: Woooo flood gates open!
Post by Nitro1 on Oct 22^nd, 2009 at 7:43pm

Might have to visit the lake after our long separation and knock a few back!

Title: Re: Woooo flood gates open!
Post by Captain YARRR on Oct 23^rd, 2009 at 8:04am

Up to 641! Making some serious progress. I was up north of Travis in the flood plain areas yesterday and all the creeks are currently raging rivers. Good stuff!

Title: Re: Woooo flood gates open!
Post by Nitro1 on Oct 24^th, 2009 at 10:23am

Looks like we are tapering off, 642 today. That was one hell of a rise! Just need three more hurricanes to put us back in business! Lol