They are releasing 20k cfs now.
That is very far from the record below.
Wow 110 cfs, the ground must have been shaking then.
"Anything above 20,000 cfs can cause minimal flooding below the dam, Karr said.
The record release was 110,000 cfs in 1994."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/storm2001/942844
Somewhere in a dark and hidden corner of his engineer's mind, you know the gate controller on that dam just loves telling his boys, "Open 'em up...all of 'em. Gimme thunder."
On Saturday, water was being released from Lake Livingston dam floodgates at a rate of 83,600 cubic feet per second, the third-largest amount on record, but the river takes about five days to crest at Liberty, according to the National Weather Service.The release rate, decreasing since Saturday, was about 36,300 cfs late Wednesday.