Yesterday (10/25) there was this bright orb in the sky, hurt my eyes to look at it.
The rain happened, not anywhere near bad enough to add to the flood.
Lake Buchanan is being opened to recreation today. My understanding is none of the other lakes are.
Lake Travis is around 130% full. 4 floodgates remain open. High, fast moving water on all the lakes beyond due to the floodgate operation. (Those lakes are constant volume so they’re passing the water right on thru them.) The expectation is WITHOUT FURTHER RAINS, the floodgates will remain open until early November. Lake Travis is falling at 2 feet/day. Since it’s 30+ feet overfull the math says 15 more days to get down to 100% full.
The water is so full of silt and muck that the 3 water plants are at 33% capacity.
Intake water,
clean intake filters,
intake water,
clean intake filters. You get the idea.
For the first time EVER, Austin water customers are under a boil water notice.
Monday AM (10/22). Within 2 hours after the notice, ALL stores who sell bottled water had sold out.
We had plenty of water but I went ahead and did the drill to show the wife just how big of a PITA it is.
Now ALL the stores has LOTS and LOTS of water but people are not buying like they did.