More Rain Please at Medina Lake @ Thousand Trails June 23, 2024

[@coletrick8748]

The rock below many lakes is impermeable which holds the water like a porcelain bowl unlike Lake Medina. The Medina lake bed leaks substantially into the Edwards Aquifer. It will take a week long or longer massive tropical storm / hurricane to bring the levels up to even 50%. Sad but true. Exactly like what happened after the 2014 Medina lake crisis where I believe it was Hurricane Harvey that brought Medina back to life.

[@livingintexasrealtor]

I'm going to say it did. More rain expected. Hope this water doesn't just drain into the ground

[@rubyrainsong]

How is it we got so much rain but the lake didn’t go up at all? 👀

[@biglaverstyle]

Once they buy all the land from us, around the lake, it will never do this again. San Antonio Is moving closer, every day. Subdivisions going up in absolutely every direction. They will buy the farms down stream that the dam was made for, then they will build huge communities surrounding the entire lake. Public parks everywhere. Commerce will come, it will be the end of a country setting by all accounts. A decade ago, I was naive in thinking this little lake in the middle of the Hill Country could stay a secret. Sad to see it go... but it's coming

[@livingintexasrealtor]

I was just talking to my teenager about what will happen in 10 or 20 years from now, and I also agree with you. I used to live in East Rural Austin then they built COTA and it has expanded more and more, can't even support the growth. I've seen it happen there.