Please let it rain in NE Texas!!

[waterinthefuel]

Toledo Bend is 10 feet below full pool stage, and the water is about 3 feet too low for me to get my boat out (the water line is roughly 50 feet behind my boat, I'm now mowing the land under my dock). We need rain so desprately up there!!

I believe the lake is at a record low.

 

[SlowlySinking]

Re: Please let it rain in NE Texas!!

stand by, last time I was in the Killeen area (early May) it rained for 2 of 3 days, I'll be there end of next week. d

 

[DJ]

Re: Please let it rain in NE Texas!!

Texas is dry. Alabama is dry. Arizona is wet. So what?

It's cyclical. Take a look at history and one can PLAN.

 

[waterinthefuel]

Re: Please let it rain in NE Texas!!

Texas is dry. Alabama is dry. Arizona is wet. So what?

It's cyclical. Take a look at history and one can PLAN.

That's just it. It's not cyclical. You can't really plan for it. It won't drop a foot overnight, but it will drop slowly and stay there. On a lake with over 100 marinas, there are currently 4 that are still usable.

Toledo Bend is falling fast as a favorite fishery of the south. It's sad. It's so low the few boats that can get into the lake have to idle around because of the old stump tops that aren't far below the surface.

 

[Gone]

Re: Please let it rain in NE Texas!!

When fishing in Canada a couple of years ago, the guide warned us that the water was low also. We found it to be 20 feet low. The piers were supported by these long wooden poles like telephone poles way up into the air. They had to put temporary floating piers in for the year. The next year all was normal again.
In our neck of the woods the drought wasn't quite that bad but boats on lifts couldn't be lowered enough to float them, rendering them useless. They had to be winterized on the spot and left outside all winter. No problem this year.
Usually the grass/weeds on the roadside get brown about the 3rd week of August. It's still green! We're up 3 inches of rain for the year. No complaints but it is cyclical around here. I have no sympathy for those that build on flood plains during low cycles then get flooded out at high cycles....DUH!!
Sorry for the rant.

Hope you get rain too!

CD

 

[LubeDude]

Re: Please let it rain in NE Texas!!

Been a strange year all over. My home lake is lower this year than I have seen it in my lifetime, and we are talking Oregon here, we always get rain. Only has rained a couple times this whole summer and not much then. Sure is a good thiong we had a great snowpack last winter. Doesn`t effect us on the coast though.

 

[dtherrien]

Re: Please let it rain in NE Texas!!

Alot of rain here in the northeast.
It was a very short summer here...probably less than 2 months of summer weather.
I think we typicaly get the same kind of weather that you get , lubedude.