Windflier, if you have never seen local lakes lower, you haven’t lived here long.
Have you forgotten the summer of 2006? Drier than dirt for three years, wildfires everywhere, stock tanks not just low but bone dry. More cow patties than grass in the middle of summer. Lake Lavon 16 feet down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT2cIzHnX5s
North Texas is in better shape right now than much of the rest of the state, but we do need rain.
Rain next May or August ping?
Have you forgotten the summer of 2006?
No, I haven't. That was our first year here. You're right that it was bone dry. But, we didn't live right next to a lake at the time, so I didn't notice the low lake levels.
I had no idea that Lake Lavon got 16 feet below normal at that time. That must have been one helluva sight. I live right next to it now, so I'm very aware of the ebb and flow of the lake level.
In 2006 we lived in Rockwall. I remember that the cracks in our yard were so huge, that we wouldn't let our kids out there, for fear of them breaking ankles.
Re: the video of Lavon. Unreal.
I noted the bridge in the video, which means that it was filmed right down the road from me. Wildflowers growing on the lake bottom. Now that’s dry.