+14 feet into flood pool at 0300

696' @ 6am.



Flood operations are underway at all of the dams along the Highland Lakes � Buchanan, Inks, Wirtz, Starcke, Travis and Tom Miller. Flooding rains and historic inflows into the lakes this week are causing fast, high flows throughout the Highland Lakes. Anyone nearby should be extremely careful.

LCRA opened four floodgates at Buchanan Dam beginning at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at the rate of one an hour for four hours. Two of the floodgates are in the 14-gate section and two are in the16-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.

Because of the dangerous conditions on the lakes, LCRA has closed lakes Buchanan, Inks, LBJ, Marble Falls and Travis until further notice.

LCRA began opening floodgates at Mansfield and Tom Miller dams at noon on Oct. 16. One floodgate was opened at noon, a second floodgate was opened at 2 p.m., a third floodgate was opened at 4 p.m. and a fourth floodgate was opened at 7p.m. LCRA is making controlled releases from the flood pool of Lake Travis to manage river levels downstream of Mansfield Dam. Lake Travis is expected to rise to 695 to 700 feet msl by mid-day Wednesday, October 17th and may continue to rise with additional rain. Operations at Mansfield Dam may change with additional rainfall or runoff, upstream or downstream of Mansfield Dam. LCRA Flood Status

The amount of water that is coming into Travis is unbelievable.

It truly is. That's understatement too. And all of that water came through LBJ, which quite frankly, can't handle that amount of water coming through it without there being issues and a bad aftermath.

As long as the Mansfield dam can do it's job, Austin won't be under water.

The major flood in '91 would have flooded Austin to 45th Street if the dams weren't built. The Highland Lakes are doing the job they were built to do.

Looks like it did pretty well considering the amount of water that came through yesterday.

With a collapsed bridge, flooded houses, and lost boat docks & boats, I don't think it did too well.

If lake Travis wouldn't have absorbed thirty feet of water yesterday I'm pretty sure a good portion of Austin would have been flooded. I'd say they did their job. Houses built on the banks of flood prone areas are just that.

LCRA just made a statement that in the past week, Lake Travis has received more water than the city of Austin can use in 4 years.

Wow!

And to think, just a few years back some people were claiming we were in a permanent drought caused by global warming.

Thats crazy to think about

Yep and now the liberals will say the flooding is due to climate change. They just go with whatever sounds best at the time.

Bwahahaha