This drouth in Texas is just awful. Even in East Texas where I live we are down about 40 inches in two years. Trees are dying everywhere. At this rate East Texas will be like west Texas before it has run its course. It almost makes one wish for a hurricane to blow in such badly needed rain. When I moved here in 2001 we got 18 inches in three days. This whole year we have about 19 inches and it is bone dry. I have never in my 63 years on this planet seen it this dry.
I'm in the Austin area, on Lake Travis. Things are so bad here that the lake is down so low that there are large sandy beaches and even sand bars poking out in the lake. It's been low before (Travis is the control lake for a chain of lakes), but I don't believe I have ever seen it this low before.