Posted on 12/30/2018 7:15:51 AM PST by bgill
Homeowners along lakes LBJ and Marble Falls will finally have a chance to start rebuilding after the October flood. Crews with the Lower Colorado River Authority will begin lowering the lakes on Sunday, Dec. 30 so residents can make repairs. Lake LBJ will be lowered 4 feet while Lake Marble Falls will be lowered 7 feet.
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So, why the heck didn't they lower the lakes BEFORE people were killed and their houses destroyed? They had plenty of warning. It's not rocket science to start letting water out before the big flood crest arrives. This isn't the first time LCRA has failed to act. How about the LCRA pay for the repairs they caused?
And why the heck in the middle of winter? Oh, because they don’t want to lose out on the summer recreation. Uh, helloooo, summer recreation businesses were lost in LCRA’s flood.
They want people out.
remember this happened During Obama’s term. Towns on the north end of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers were inundated because the EPA and their minions would not let the water down.
There is a concerted effort to harm and impoverish the middle class by leftist deep state fascist totalitarians.
Here is a good website to get lake levels throughout the US
Lake Buchanan Water Level
http://buchanan.lakesonline.com/Level/
Lake Lanier Water Level
http://lanier.uslakes.info/Level.asp
Government bureaucrats, that’s why.
Dams don't prevent floods, they just move them from one place to another. When a river such as the (Texas) Colorado has multiple dams along its length, each of the dam managers have to coordinate with each other on a strategy that minimizes damage along the entire length of the river. This means that the best strategy for one location might cause much more damage to others.
From my perspective, along the Guadalupe, the river which experiences more flooding than any other in the US, I think they do a pretty good job.
Yep, you take your chances when you live in a flood plain
controlled but various authorities. Build dams and the
backwater will impact areas.
Then you should know LCRA operates all the dams along the lake chain. They aren’t run by different organizations that must coordinate with each other. Open the upper one, then the second one, then the third and on down. The October rain was upstream so there was no problem whatsoever opening any dam downstream. They had several days warning and failed to do anything but pick the lint from their belly buttons.
I’ve lived on LBJ lake most of my life and have seen first hand how LCRA screws up everything they touch. I have called them to report a level problem and they tell me my eyes are lying. No, they sit behind their computers two hours away and don’t have a bleepin’ idea what’s going on. They also claim no flooding can happen at my house because water can’t turn that direction and flow upstream. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Water will turn every direction to find it’s level, yet they can’t figure out that very simple fact.
Funny thing about flood plains. When we first moved here, we were out of the flood plain. The lake was touted and still is as a constant level lake due to such great flood control. Of course, that was back when we had live humans at the dams. Now days, we have 20-something twerps sitting in their cubicles two hours away making the decisions and telling the local residents we aren’t getting flooded as we’re standing in water.
Hmm, wonder why they keep refusing to put a gauge on my property. Can’t be because then they’d have to answer for their stupidity. Hmm, why have they raised the normal water level (which they claim they haven’t)? Gotta get those $$$$ from recreation.
And that flood plain map? Yeah, it has changed drastically. “Constant level” became a joke coincidentally when those cubicles two hours away popped up.
The only reason they’re lowering it now is not to help the residents but to dredge away the islands that all the silt and sand the flood has formed out in the middle of the lake.
You don't have a lot of sympathy from me. Lake LBJ seems to have the highest priority of all of the lakes on the chain to maintain a constant level. Some say this is because of its use for electricity generation, others say its because of its heritage (LBJ). LBJ sat fat and full for a number of years, while upstream, 'lake' Buchannan was dry.
You can't have your cake - a full lake, and then complain when it gets too full, while others are flooding as well.
The Ole Mississippi river ran backwards after the new Madrid quake. Flooding, especially flash flooding is not something to ignore.
Sounds like LCRA is your typical government crap agency. However, living in a flood plain is a big gamble. Even if the river is controlled by dams. Mother Nature always finds a way to win.
Getting rid of the middle class is really starting to add up. We all move to cities and live like socialists.
Seriously? That makes no sense. Buchanan has a dam ABOVE Inks Lake which is ABOVE Lake LBJ. What, was LBJ supposed to pump water up to Inks and then Inks pump it up Buchanan??? Besides, LBJ gets it’s natural water flow from the Llano River whereas Buchanan gets it’s water from the San Saba River. Two totally different animals. You might as well say it’s LBJ’s fault that Lake Michigan was dry. Makes no sense.
Buchanan is 5 miles across and 30 miles long whereas LBJ is 21 miles long and is mostly narrow 1-2 football fields wide river until it opens into the main water that’s 2 miles wide. How does little LBJ hold all of Buchanan?????
Buchanan has been low but has never gone anywhere near dry. It gets low because it regularly sends water to the rice farmers down in south Texas but not because of decades long dead Pres. Johnson. Take that problem up with the Rice Lobby. We do and have complained for decades.
Thank goodness for electricity generation or people wouldn’t have power. Of the many electricity generation plants the LCRA operates, LBJ only has one. Ooops, Buchanan generates, too. Well, there goes that argument.
FYI, we were here before it was renamed LBJ so stop the virtue signalling.
Getting rid of the middle class is really starting to add up. We all move to cities and live like socialists.
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Getting rid of the middle class is really starting to add up. We all move to cities and live like SLAVES.
and not all will survive the purges.
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