I’ve lived in Austin since 1983 and remember the 1991 flooding of Lake Travis. We walked to the midway point across Mansfield Dam and were amazed at the amount of water they were letting out (I believe only 6 of the gates were opened at that time). This recent series of storms, by comparison, seems to be much more severe and I hope LCRA can manage this properly.
well LCRA has been behind the curve prediction wise...and didn’t take into account the extreme rainfall at the currect time and followed it by the book. they could ave opened the 4 gates on Lake travis earlier . but then again with 350,000 cfs comning in a few 10.000 cfs isn’t going to do much
the book
https://www.lcra.org/water/floods/Pages/key-elevations-for-lake-travis-during-floods.aspx