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38 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:

I respect your learned opinion. But I'm like Lincoln on this. McClellan, you're fired. Pope and Burnside, fired. Hooker? Fired. McClellan: Fired again. You either fight, or you sit down.

I said I want plump and pretty women on the Little River. Not little women on the Pretty River. I want it all. Desal. Fanning county? More like Fan-flooded county. Big ass pipelines stealing water from Aggy and piping it to Sand Aggy. And then when they piss it out, I'm shipping the piss back to Waco. I'm going to pump so much water into Ogallala that the sand hills of Nebraska will flush down to Kanasas and make it interesting. Money? We got money. We don't spend it on education or health care, what the fuck is money for? Im gonna take Commanche County and make it a giant hole and fill it up. I like holes and fuck those sundown town racists. 

"Stop, Clever, stop! It's too much water!" Hell no. We filling this damn bathtub, and I dont care how many turds have to float to make it happen. Jacob's Well ain't just gonna run, its gonna be a fucking geyser. We will fill up DKR like the Coliseum, and Fozzy Whittaker is going to ski jump over Katy Perry's left shark.

Twenty-five years ago I promised my drunken longhorn peers a lazy river to cirumnavigate campus, and now is the fucking time.

Funny thing, there are a few water supply corps that have already tapped into the east Texas water. They have more water than they can use. But they are all a bunch of small cartels. They dont work well together and they want total control of their little fiefdom. For the water to get further west where it is needed, it will take an act of congress. We essentially have a wall built out east of Austin that will prevent water flowing further west.

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Posted
29 minutes ago, troph said:

Proposed desal plant on Baffin Bay in my socials. Anglers and duck hunters up in arms. 

Actually not on the bay, but inland ground water wells.  They are upset about the plan to discharge the brine into a creek that feeds into Baffin.

Posted
12 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Actually not on the bay, but inland ground water wells.  They are upset about the plan to discharge the brine into a creek that feeds into Baffin.

Thank you. 

Posted
4 hours ago, CleverNickname said:

I respect your learned opinion. But I'm like Lincoln on this. McClellan, you're fired. Pope and Burnside, fired. Hooker? Fired. McClellan: Fired again. You either fight, or you sit down.

I said I want plump and pretty women on the Little River. Not little women on the Pretty River. I want it all. Desal. Fanning county? More like Fan-flooded county. Big ass pipelines stealing water from Aggy and piping it to Sand Aggy. And then when they piss it out, I'm shipping the piss back to Waco. I'm going to pump so much water into Ogallala that the sand hills of Nebraska will flush down to Kanasas and make it interesting. Money? We got money. We don't spend it on education or health care, what the fuck is money for? Im gonna take Commanche County and make it a giant hole and fill it up. I like holes and fuck those sundown town racists. 

"Stop, Clever, stop! It's too much water!" Hell no. We filling this damn bathtub, and I dont care how many turds have to float to make it happen. Jacob's Well ain't just gonna run, its gonna be a fucking geyser. We will fill up DKR like the Coliseum, and Fozzy Whittaker is going to ski jump over Katy Perry's left shark.

Twenty-five years ago I promised my drunken longhorn peers a lazy river to cirumnavigate campus, and now is the fucking time.

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Posted
12 minutes ago, JGrayDBU said:

With Lake Travis now about 670 feet, is there any problem with the lake going above 681?  It has been at 700 before, correct?

It has but it wasn't a good situation.  They'll hold it up into the 690s if they have to, in order to avoid creating dangerous situations downstream.  But if it's safe downstream, they'll release at 681 or so.

 

 

 

Posted
7 hours ago, Horns99 said:

Put me in the camp we are going to 681. The dock guys are loving this, lots of work for them. LCRA sucks at their projections

There is still 17% capacity left to fill to get to 681. There is still a lot of water coming in, but the worst is over.

Posted
6 minutes ago, utee94 said:

It has but it wasn't a good situation.  They'll hold it up into the 690s if they have to, in order to avoid creating dangerous situations downstream.  But if it's safe downstream, they'll release at 681 or so.

 

 

 

It got up to 710 during Christmas of 1991.  They had a ton of rain and couldn't release water downstream because it would have flooded everything past Travis.  I believe the top of the dam is 714.  Graveyard Point home owners were pissed because their houses at feet of water in them.

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Posted
Just now, 1978horn said:

It got up to 710 during Christmas of 1991.  They had a ton of rain and couldn't release water downstream because it would have flooded everything past Travis.  I believe the top of the dam is 714.  Graveyard Point home owners were pissed because their houses at feet of water in them.

Yup.  As I mentioned before, I have pictures of myself from December 1991, canoeing through my best friend's Volente lakehouse when the water was at 710.  But that was a special circumstance.  Right now with no massive flooding occurring downstream, they'd be safe to release if the water rises above 680.

I don't think the current rain event is going to quite get us there, but every time the rains out west seem to end, more comes along.  So it's still possible we'll hit 680 within the next week or so.

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Just snapped this screenshot (7:27 AM). Hydromet shows the lake to be at 670.67. There seems to be the tiniest sliver of Sometimes Island way in the back, so MIA's thought that it was 671' when they disappear seems to be the winner.image.jpeg.6705174051029aa5e703a697fb579499.jpeg

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