El Nino is back so it’s raining a lot. Should be a fairly cool summer — only a month or so over 100F.
When I moved down here 7-8 years ago there was a drought and the local folks said “Every drought ends with a flood.” And it did. It rained almost daily for about a month.
This is just another cycle of the same.
BTW, I heard on the radio that the flood gates on the Longhorn Dam have been inoperable for years and if true, it accounts for much of the flooding in Austin. The LCRA doesn’t own the Longhorn: it’s Austin city property, so expect a tax increase there when the lawsuits get rolling.
Exactly. Texas Ranchers knew it would take an El Niño to end our severe drought. All part of ongoing cycles.
Austin not maintaining something they own? Shocking!
Shoal Creek has flooded many times in the 27 years that I have been here. I probably have an old newspaper clipping around somewhere of water nearly covering a stop sign along Lamar near downtown. That must have been in the late 80’s.
The drought of the last few years has lulled a lot of newcomers into a false sense of security with regard to where houses are built. When the deed says floodplain, they mean it. Texas floods are swift and unforgiving. I remember one area in particular near where I lived at the time being flooded repeatedly with deep water and was sad that a developer put houses right there because I knew this day would come. That area should have never been zoned for dwellings of any kind.