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Looks like San Saba through Copperas caught hell (Read 4029 times)
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Looks like San Saba through Copperas caught hell
Oct 2nd, 2009 at 9:54am
 
Which I am excited about. Watching the news they said there was some mega rain and hail. Looking at the geography it looks like that's where we need it to rain to drain in to Travis. Am I right?
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Re: Looks like San Saba through Copperas caught hell
Reply #1 - Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:19pm
 
Yeah you are right, rain falling on the lake does little for it. It needs a large area of rain to run off in to feeder streams.

This is a neat little article showing what a good rain storm can do:

http://www.austinrealestateguy.com/blogs/sam_chapman/archive/2009/08/02/how-fast...
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Re: Looks like San Saba through Copperas caught hell
Reply #2 - Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:28am
 
According to this report, Lake Travis only went up a half a foot.   It did damage several docks in the Sandy Creek area.

http://weareaustin.com/content/video/?cid=31792
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Reply #3 - Oct 6th, 2009 at 11:18am
 
it seems pegged at the 630 range lately. That's an improvement from the daily drop!
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Re: Looks like San Saba through Copperas caught hell
Reply #4 - Oct 7th, 2009 at 5:36pm
 
I am rather skeptical that we'll be using Lake Travis at all this coming year. That's a crap load of water that has to come.

PROVE ME WRONG!
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Reply #5 - Oct 12th, 2009 at 6:02pm
 
This steady rain is already making a difference, up to 631.
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