It Will Take an Insane Amount of Rain Before the Highland Lakes Recover

September 19, 2014

Central Texas is having a pretty decent year, rain-wise. We’re sitting just below normal. And it’s been a good week, too: early Thursday, one part of Austin got over seven inches of rain.

So much rain fell over downtown Austin that the statue of Stevie Ray Vaughan along Lady Bird Lake looked like he was walking on water. It brought back memories of the Halloween floods last fall — back then Stevie was standing in water waist-deep. But these big rain events all have something in common: They really haven’t fallen where we need them most.

NPR’s StateImpact Texas, September 19, 2014

Featuring: Michael Young, associate director of environmental systems at the University of Texas at Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology in the Jackson School of Geosciences