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Old 11-16-2011, 01:20 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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It rained .4 inches in Steiner Ranch, and between .25 and .6 in the Travis basin areas. Enough to get the ground nice and wet, but not much else. 2 inches still is roughly the hurdle to produce enough for run-off, so it would have had to rain five times as hard before a single drop went into one of the lakes. Oh well. My lawn appreciates it, though.
Actually they said on the news last night that Lake Travis went up 1 inch from the rains... Not much but still better than nothing.
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Old 11-16-2011, 04:23 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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You can't judge the rise in Lake Travis to measure the rainfall in the area. LCRA is constantly releasing water from the lakes to meet the commitments downstream, and the last major rainfall upstream was mostly retained in Lake Buchanan. While LCRA continued to release huge amounts of water from Lake Travis to feed the rice farmers downstream. So what is held and released in Lake T. has nothing to do with how much rainfall the local area has experienced or what the available water supply is for Austin, which includes Lake Buchanan and Lake Travis.
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