Lake Lewisville, Texas

[greghvac]

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/06/18/rain ... till-rise/
does anyone have there boat on this lake. hope yours is not the ones still missing.

[RcgTexas]

The Article said the water Lewisville and Grapevine will release will be going into the Trinity river.

The Dam at Livingston and the trinity river at Liberty Texas is already above flood stage. I wish California would come get some of this wet stuff!

[LadyGT]

Too bad canals cannot be built to transfer water from one side of the nation to the other. California has them to protect certain areas from flooding or to send water to farmers. Maybe a project to be considered by our Congressmen. It would provide jobs as well as water and help redirect water where needed.

[C_M_25]

Hell no! That is a terrible idea. More than half of the cities in California shouldn't exist in the first place. I mean, two thirds of the state is in a very arid area with a history of very long droughts. The only reason they made it work is because they tapped a large under ground aquifer system that took 10s of thousands of years to fill up and drain it in less than 100 years. Add on top of that the complete mismanagement of their water resource and you have one dry ass state with lots of very expensive houses fighting to flush their toilets. Sorry, but I'm heavily against letting them have access to any more of our country's water. Ok, rant over

[GXPWeasel]

Agreed. /\
What CM25 said...

I know it's hard to deal with the water now for all of us, and our food prices are going up because of the water shortage in Cali, but I don't feel sorry for that bass akward state in the least. Some very beautiful landscape, and there are SOME great people there. This is one of those cases of the bad apple, and the remainder of the bushel.

[LadyGT]

I lived in CA most of my life so I understand the fight for water within the state. I was speaking in general. Georgia was in drought conditions for many years while other places were flooding. Some of that water could have been redirected where needed.

[C_M_25]

I didn't mean to completely derail this thread, but if we really wanted to redirect the water where needed, we need more reservoirs along rivers. If you REALLY wanted to put it where needed, you install a 24 inch hole packed with charcoal, sand, and gravel that will slowly drain the reservoirs to the groundwater systems. Of course then we would all have to move to the coast to use our boats. I think I would be ok with that though! I love the ocean!!

[robertm]

I know a few people that have/had boats at that marina. 6ft waves supposedly. It was kind of a freak deal. The wind from the storm was blowing in a way that a huge section of open lake was able to create some massive waves that were directed right at the marina. Just glad no one was injured.

[fredeboy]

C_M_25
I like that idea!! Drill a number of holes at each Lake with remote control lids and when the floods come open them up to refill the aquifer. GENIUS

[lakerunner]

We gots some smsrt and intellengentt people on this furm