lake dried up?

(board4ce07) · (board4ce07) **Join Date: May 2004** 01-29-2006, 3:23 PM

hey i live in texas and our lake is so low that no one on the lake can get their boat out. its supposed to not go up for a long time either. anybody else have the same problem? im looking for a good way to pass the time and the tramp just isnt cutting it anymore. its that damn global warming i swear...

(tyboarder03) · (tyboarder03) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 01-29-2006, 4:41 PM

global warming my ass... Our mountain hasn't had a year like this in the last 5 or 6 years atleast. And our reservoirs and rivers, are pretty damn full some flooding. What you need is some rain down there, and not so much dry time.

(bendow) · (bendow) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 01-29-2006, 4:58 PM

ya, the lake is so low at tsr that one of the rails and one of the sliders is closed.

walt 01-29-2006, 5:01 PM

Texas is a arid state right ?

(wakeboardqueen)

They are probably just lowering your lake for repair

(johnbowen) · (johnbowen) **Join Date: Apr 2005** 01-29-2006, 5:37 PM

you can some of our rain. i'w waiting for Noah's ark to go floating by. Forty days and forty nights of rain are nothing compared to the winter we are having in the northwest.

(jcv) · (jcv) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 01-29-2006, 6:16 PM

walt, texas stays pretty dry--save the occasional random thunder storm--so the little rain we do get is vital. all it takes is a few inches (or a couple feet in this case) under the average and the lakes drop pretty quick. most texas lakes are supposed to be constant level lakes, so people build their docks as such. our lake is over 5 ft. down with the drought and because we supply the dallas/fort worth area with most of their water. it's looking like a lot of boats will be trapped all year. making it worse, most boat ramps on our lake aren't paved far enough down to get anything more than a bass boat in and out in these conditions.

erin, nope, lakes are down significantly everywhere.

benjamin, which obstacles are closed? i was thinking about going down to tsr in a couple weeks but only if at least one of the kickers and the box is open

(willatter) · (willatter) **Join Date: Aug 2005** 01-29-2006, 6:56 PM

i was at tsr this afternoon and the a-frame and crooked slider are closed down, both kickers and the fun box are open. they are almost finished with the new slider and it looks sick.

(jcv) · (jcv) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 01-29-2006, 7:10 PM

thanks will. i make no secret about the fact i suck, so i won't miss those two obstacles much. what's the shape of the new slider?

(bendow) · (bendow) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 01-29-2006, 7:19 PM

that new slider their building is absolutely nuts, I wonder who will be the first to hit it?

jeff, it's a rail type slider high off the water that goes up at incline into 2 humps and then a decline. I can't really explain it to well, guess you just have to see it.

(willatter) · (willatter) **Join Date: Aug 2005** 01-29-2006, 7:19 PM

it has a slight incline to a long flat with two big humps at the end, it's 120 feet long. there is a pic at the tsr myspace page.

(eternalshadow) · (eternalshadow) **Join Date: Nov 2001** 01-29-2006, 9:57 PM

If we don't get some snow or have a wet spring/summer it's going to be another year of low lakes and some big fires up this way.

Our last winter was really mild but we had a relatively wet summer, it got to the point where we'd just keep riding as long as it wasn't pouring or thundering.

(solo) · (solo) **Join Date: Oct 2001** 01-30-2006, 8:04 AM

103 days of no rain fall and counting here in AZ!

(ebone66) · (ebone66) **Join Date: Dec 2005** 01-30-2006, 9:40 AM

A couple different factors are working against us here in TX. Along w/the lack of rain, the dams at Livingston and Conroe were damaged by Katrina. The Livingston dam will not be repaired until late June so it will stay low regardless of rain until then. Conroe dam should be fixed sooner or may already be fixed. Not positive.

atom_ant 01-30-2006, 11:23 AM

I thought my lake, Kingsley Lake, in Florida was drying up for a while because it was about 6ft. down at one point. We had to dredge out our boat lift so we could get the boat out, but now it's up so much the dock is almost under water. I hope your lake isn't drying up, but I don't think it is.

(rob_kc) · (rob_kc) **Join Date: Dec 2004** 01-30-2006, 11:30 AM

Will, how do you get to the photo of the slider At TSR? I could not find anything like that on the site.

(denverd1)

East texas doesn't have any katrina damage, fortunately, but all the lakes are down 4-6 ft. we got some much needed rain over the weekend and most lakes saw a foot increase in water level. but you still can't launch at most of the lakes we go to

(midwesty) · (midwesty) **Join Date: Aug 2003** 01-30-2006, 12:22 PM

its called mother nature. this happens from time to time, so sorry for the inconvience.

(baldboarder) · (baldboarder) **Join Date: Aug 2002** 01-30-2006, 12:35 PM

Davis, Global Warming is the reason Russia is having the coldest Winter in last 25 years.

(willatter) · (willatter) **Join Date: Aug 2005** 01-30-2006, 12:48 PM

here it is...

money shot

(taylormade) · (taylormade) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 01-30-2006, 12:51 PM

I live on a canal that wasn't deep to begin, it's deepest part only being about 5 ft. We haven't had ANY rain to speak of since October and around mid November my canal became so low that I had to pull my boat out for fear of getting stuck. Good thing I did since it's damn near bone dry now. I've even taken a pic as a reference. The first pic is about 1.5 years old with my old boat in the summer (it was obviously raining when the pic was taken) and the other was back in November... it's about another foot lower now.