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I was caught in in a bit or that flash flood conditions in Dallas Thursday. Went through 18 inches of water in a couple of places and a foot high in several others. Although it looked like the heaviest rains went Northeast of Dallas.

Bachman Lake jumped several feet in an hour, I am sure right over the spillway.

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The lakes are depressing. The rain starts in Fort Worth and grows as it travels east.

Rockwall got close to 6 inches, and Ray Hubbard only came up a little over a foot.

My neck of the woods is hurting terribly. We paid a guy to come out and mow the lake in front of the house again. Very depressing. Record lows haven't been set, they have been shattered! 11 feet low for a skinny river lake is devastating. I really don't see how some local businesses are going to make it.

But I am having a beach party, though!

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The lakes are depressing. The rain starts in Fort Worth and grows as it travels east.

Rockwall got close to 6 inches, and Ray Hubbard only came up a little over a foot.

My neck of the woods is hurting terribly. We paid a guy to come out and mow the lake in front of the house again. Very depressing. Record lows haven't been set, they have been shattered! 11 feet low for a skinny river lake is devastating. I really don't see how some local businesses are going to make it.

But I am having a beach party, though!

All your problems are solved when people stop texting in Denton.

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The lakes are depressing. The rain starts in Fort Worth and grows as it travels east.

Rockwall got close to 6 inches, and Ray Hubbard only came up a little over a foot.

My neck of the woods is hurting terribly. We paid a guy to come out and mow the lake in front of the house again. Very depressing. Record lows haven't been set, they have been shattered! 11 feet low for a skinny river lake is devastating. I really don't see how some local businesses are going to make it.

But I am having a beach party, though!

Ray Hubbard gets its water shed from Lavon and area the radar looked like the heaviest rain fall was even east of there. Maybe lake fork and the lakes south on the trinity river. Is Lake Limestone one?

But it looked like you got some rain north hoping Bridgeport got some rain.

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Ya, we need rain north and west of Possum Kingdom.

Problem is, when the areas east of Dallas get 4 inches, the are we need usually get .25 or nothing at all.

So depressing.

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The lakes are depressing. The rain starts in Fort Worth and grows as it travels east.

Rockwall got close to 6 inches, and Ray Hubbard only came up a little over a foot.

My neck of the woods is hurting terribly. We paid a guy to come out and mow the lake in front of the house again. Very depressing. Record lows haven't been set, they have been shattered! 11 feet low for a skinny river lake is devastating. I really don't see how some local businesses are going to make it.

But I am having a beach party, though!

Yeeeeeehhh.... Lake Travis is down 56.03. It's pretty much gone. Depressing to even drive by it at this point.

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This state needs to really focus on improving the water resource. There hasn't been a major reservoir built near major population centers in, what, 20 years? At least not in the DFW area. Meanwhile, population has gone from around 4 million in 1995 to 7.5 million today, and expected to be 11 million by 2021.

Damn Yankees!! Go home!!

Hopefully the new water package passed last year will be more than a pork filled bonanza for local politicians and will actually need to construction of new reservoirs, with the first being a major reservoir near Glen Rose to serve as a water resource for Comanche Peak and what is soon to be a booming Cleburne suburb (new toll road to Fort Worth just opened, cutting the drive to downtown Fort Worth from 50 to 20 minutes), along with the western suburbs of Fort Worth. But I have my doubts that the politicians will get this right

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I know and/or understand very little about water management. It does seem like Texas has the capacity to manage its water better, but for whatever reason, chooses not to. Perhaps we need toll lakes.

And a law forbidding texting while boating (even on a pontoon boat going 20 MPH).

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I don't understand how all the new housing growth can be permitted without new water being secured, the cities Dallas and Fort Worth own most of the water in North central and eastern Texas. All these little towns have almost no water. Dallas has yet to implement Lake Fork, and lake Palestine, and has rights to build three or four more reservoirs I think two are northeast on the Sulfur river and two are southestfrom the Neches River.

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Round 2

Storms were heavy all over. I am in Lewisville and an a fisherman and hope Lewisville and Ray Roberts fill up.

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Aren't you in Granbury Mike? You guys it getting pummeled right now. You almost got your wish if this string of a front were just 20 miles west.

Need storms like this for 48 hours straight to make any substantial dent, but I'll take whatever I can get at this point.

Thinking about moving back to FW if we have another summer with no water.

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Quitter.

The drought and the BRA would have beaten me, I must admit. Got about 1/2 inch of rain yesterday. Not even enough to saturate the ground (translation: no run off). First rain in over 3 weeks.

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I guess I can understand why people thought I was referencing basketball season...but I was actually referring to the Homecoming Bonfire. :lol:

Denton has received much more rain the the western counties. That 5 inches they got a month ago? Granbury got nary a drop.

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