As a result of the rain in the last post, lake Brownwood came up to about 4 feet over the spillway. In our time in Brownwood I can only remember 2 times that it has over topped the spillway. One was in July 2002 and the other was in 2007. On April 26th of this year the lake level was 13 feet low and today it is still 2.5 feet over the dam. Here are some pictures we took last evening at the spillway
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| A view back over the spillway |
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| A hundred yards downstream |
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| Water headed downstream toward Brownwood |
When these events happen we get flooding in Brownwood. The Walmart and various other businesses will take on water if the water gets high enough. Invariably someone tries to drive through one of the low water crossings in the hills around the lake and we lose someone. That seems to have happened this time as well. In spite of all the warnings and reports we never learn.
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