Remembering Austin before the Colorado River was dammed

Remembering Austin before the Colorado River was dammed | The Backstory

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A series of deadly floods forced the construction of dams to protect Austin and the people who lived here.
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@jeffreymartin6369 5 ай бұрын

I’ve canoed up to those granite stones from Barton Springs. Daddy and Granny paid $25k cash for 1418 Gaston Ave in 1947 now a million dollar home! Austin during my time there was magical but I left in 1985 and wouldn’t wanna live there anymore.

@dougmichalk2590 5 ай бұрын

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@danielstephenson2748 5 ай бұрын

TOWN LAKE

@donerickson7305 5 ай бұрын

The city could have been moved away from the flood area

@monkeytrainer6008 5 ай бұрын

Mansfield Dam for Lake Travis was completed in 1942. That is the dam that protects Austin from floods. Without that lakes ability to hold entire flood event, Tom Miller dam would have washed away by January 1991. This drizzle from KVUE is a definite fluff piece. We deserve better is local reporting.

@vizagothx7294 5 ай бұрын

i forgot how bad local austin news is.. in my defense i havent lived there for years

@mrEsub 4 ай бұрын

Thats a dam shame

@tvviewer4500 5 ай бұрын

When you think about ‘climate change’ just remember we stopped letting the water flow where it needs to be

@michaelsmith-jy9ve 5 ай бұрын

It's called Town Lake!!!

@BattleBrotherZuriel 5 ай бұрын

Move on with life, the name got changed.

@sw8741 5 ай бұрын

One of the few cities in the US with its own power company? What do you mean by few? I'm in a city in CA that has its own power company. There are a number of other cities in CA that have their own power company including Sacramento. Best part of my city is the $0.11/kWHr rate, about 1/2 - 2/3 less than the public companies in CA.

@ShamusMcGillicudy 5 ай бұрын

How many Colorado rivers are there?

@dougmichalk2590 5 ай бұрын

@glenboyer6258 5 ай бұрын

These dams have also ruined the natural habitats that relied on the flood waters for soils, nutrients, and natural irrigation. Now every home in the U.S. just about uses a non native very invasive grass for their yards that uses to much water.

@markwgundert4251 5 ай бұрын

Choose your poison "ruined habitats" or deadly floods. I'm pretty sure you'd prefer the dams...

@JustLikeHeaven77 5 ай бұрын

Need water to live.

@cole9793 5 ай бұрын

hippie

@magaareinbredhillbillies 5 ай бұрын

@@cole9793 hollow

@barrypeterson9692 5 ай бұрын

Africa doesn’t have many damns. I’m sure you’d be happy living there.

@11ccom 5 ай бұрын

Then I'll get on my knees and pray We don't get fooled again

@ItsWhatever2517 5 ай бұрын

The Colorado River must have done something real bad to be dammed.

@davidharris453 5 ай бұрын

Fascinating story...lived and paddled in austin in the eighties.....would have loved to see such a drop dead gorgeous woman of colorbe a news anchor then but better late than never.

@a-snafu8181 5 ай бұрын

I remember Austin being nice before going to 💩

@Brucev7 5 ай бұрын

radicals

@Yilver499 5 ай бұрын

And now the river is dried.

@ChicoTheMutant 5 ай бұрын

The hood was west downtown back then most people don't know that. Pushed to other side of the new I-35 and then pushed again with gentrification, Yup Austin is still Austin. 🤷‍♂️

@MissCertifiedKicks 5 ай бұрын

They're still trying to get the rest of us out of there but we won't go. My grandparents purchased our home in 1917 for $2500.

@muddrivermike 4 ай бұрын

Now, Instead of a river destroying the city. You have Californians invading and destroying it.

@AlyssaReynolds-u7i 5 ай бұрын

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@DonaldCarroll-i8m 5 ай бұрын

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@moabfool 5 ай бұрын

Are we to understand that Texas is so special that y'all have your own Colorado River that you have the audacity to call *the* Colorado River?

@RobertRidout-ub2cu 5 ай бұрын

Actually it was named by the Spanish explorers before the other Colorado River was discovered.

@mloutherback 5 ай бұрын

...and the other Colorado River, where it runs through the state of Colorado, wasn't even named "Colorado" until it was renamed by an act of Congress in 1921.

@stevejohnson3196 5 ай бұрын

It was called the grand river before 1921