It has been raining, of late. The tomatoes and the cucumbers and the peppers and watermelon and grass and trees and weeds are celebrating with a showy show — green, the likes of which we haven’t seen in many years.
According the the Lower Colorado River Authority, two weeks ago, 14 days precisely at this very minute, the Lake Travis lake level was 629.48 feet above sea level. At the moment, it is 630.54 feet. That’s a lake level rise of one foot. One foot in 14 days!
But here’s the thing of it. The historical average level for Lake Travis is 670.47 feet above sea level.
Let’s see, at the current rate of one foot in 14 days, let’s call that two feet per month, we only need it to continue raining as it has been for another … 20 months.
Non-stop rainy, drizzly, stormy days for a year and a half. That’s all we need.