"I didn't think Lake Travis could get so low." down here in Texas there's a sayin' - "there ya go, thinkin' again!"

@61066clocks

7 жыл бұрын

Or..there You go with that "stinkin thinkin" again..lol

@Marcus538

3 жыл бұрын

Thinking cocks everything , when you think your thinking? , the one thing you are not doing is thinking, oddly . Its either indescision or stupidity in my experience

@MeagainIA2011

3 жыл бұрын

my ex used to say that.....

A tributary of Lake Travis, this shot on the Pedernales River. A flood control lake, Travis rises and falls according to the amount of rain in its watershed, therefore its a floating dock lake. An upper lake tributary, the Pedernales River often “goes dry” more frequently than inbound waters from other rivers draining into Lake Travis.

@MrRick-md7wm

3 жыл бұрын

Jonestown, North Lake travis

@amybobamie7366

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you ,! Yours is the answer I was seeking

That handful of gray pixels covered the handful of green pixels. It was amazing!

The only thing predictable in Texas is how unpredictable the weather is.

@EasyModeFishing

5 жыл бұрын

Sarah Rosered well the summer is always hot and spring is always rainy. Other than that it’s very unpredictable but you can count on it beings hot in July and August

@sharon94503

3 жыл бұрын

Like a cow pissin' on a flat rock. Wait 10 minutes, it'll change.

@michaeld1906

3 жыл бұрын

That goes just about everywhere nowadays!!

I was waiting for some yayhoo riding one of the docks down stream.

@musicmadantidevil3688

4 жыл бұрын

Neeh whats up dock:)

@torque-ej4nu

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@icuabc1235

3 жыл бұрын

He probably fell off the blue slide.

@theindustry9354

3 жыл бұрын

Yea

@MinMaxxx

3 жыл бұрын

@@icuabc1235 He woulda been fine if he didn’t have a beer in his hand as he was sliding down.

Maybe when a new dock, shed or another building is needed, build it way up stream, since the people downstream get new stuff every couple years.

@discmotoslots

4 жыл бұрын

or just wait downstream & pick up one of your neighbors docks & call it your own?

@robertl.fallin7062

3 жыл бұрын

@@discmotoslots ALWAYS have a gallon of $hit cheep paint and a power painter!

@discmotoslots

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertl.fallin7062 lol

@chrisemerson7743

3 жыл бұрын

But if ur property is down stream, it might be a little hard to build some where else! lol

@private15

3 жыл бұрын

Dock on wheels and winch it onto higher ground when heavy rains predicted.

Videos such as this are excellent for insurance evidence/proof, historical footage, use by government agencies for environmental science, economic development, and a host of other reasons. This was a random find for me, but it is as satisfying to watch as any other civilian recording. Water is powerful.

@yolo_burrito

3 жыл бұрын

Water is powerful so are old growth trees on river banks. The amount of stabilization they provide should not be underestimated.

@icuabc1235

3 жыл бұрын

Oh the power of booze and a cell phone camera.

I know I'm waaay late on this, but... Instead of the foam blocks under each dock, use plastic 55 gal drums strapped to the bottoms of the docks. They are tough enough to be walked on when the dry season hits and 2 or 3 of them can float a small car. Awesome video, BTW... Reminds me of watching the tsunami videos...

Beautiful area in Texas. Loved living there as a teen.

@hillary6563

3 жыл бұрын

You graduate from LT? Curious which year...

@Jake.The.Snake.

2 жыл бұрын

Why would people ever build docks on this river if it does this? Is it a really rich area?

My sister lives on Lake Travis. I live in Austin. The lake ain't nowhere near full - won't be until it reaches to the top of the bare line on the banks.

I guess I shouldn’t need to remind these folks that Floating Docks can float away whenever.

I grew up on Caddo Lake. That lake could rise or fall by as much as 14'. At least once a year, my brother and I would go in search of our pier.

@chrismerkel9604

3 жыл бұрын

Why weren't any of these boat docks anchored to the shore?

@private15

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrismerkel9604 they were all anchored to land. Flash floods will move buildings and large rocks. Very powerful!

@chrismerkel9604

3 жыл бұрын

@@private15 You are correct water is very powerful.

This was, once, a great mountain lake resort, just outside Austin, Texas. But, it has fallen on bad times, just like a lot of water reservoirs in Texas. Lake Arrowhead near Wichita Falls is a case of note.

Very nice video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.

A great day for dock sales across the area :)

Amazing footage! Thank you Very Much

To people asking why not tie the docks down. Most of those docks that you see are floating docks that raise and lower with the water level. The docks are held in place with either weights or sometimes cables. As the water level dropped with the drought the docks dropped with it to the bottom of the lake. When the lake was full the water level was probably at least 20' up the bank and when it started to lower there is no way the owners could get their docks out of the water.

@lemcg5574

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't explain why they aren't cabled in place.

This video is a couple of years old, but the Memorial Day flooding of 2015 has raised Lake Travis over forty feet...Still about 12 feet low.

Be happy there is water coming to a dry flippin lake that no one could use.

08.2024 and still the same feeling.... amazing

Where I come from you need water to call it a dock, those are just mobile sunshades.

i like the crystal clear 240p shaky cam diesel motor background.

The same drought they said would take 20 years to recover from and the next year it completely filled the lake!

what a crazy way to end your docks life ! you could hear the steel breaking and getting all tangled up, crazy, just crazy ! but that life here in texas, you never know when a flash flood will hit, but you always have to be ready when it rains !

@Beezlie727

5 жыл бұрын

It's more likely aluminum! Steel's too heavy! Sounded more like aluminum.

I build docks for a living. Not much you can do when that much water comes through.

@skoko1945

9 жыл бұрын

Docktor Jim I don't think I would be a customer.

@riparianlife97701

9 жыл бұрын

skoko1945 No dock, made of any material, could have survived that. Even if your dock is wonderful, the next 10 upstream coming down and slamming into it are going to wipe it out.

@riparianlife97701

8 жыл бұрын

Rekka Riley Every little boy sets up a peaceful town made of whatever materials are available, then destroys it. Usually while making silly explosion sounds with his mouth, followed by the screams of the residents. Then some of them grow up to be men who are sure the things they build are indestructible. We forget.

@icuabc1235

3 жыл бұрын

@Gregory Pelc they only come in blue

A yeh, Lake Travis! Last night Scott Fisher said that we are at 101

I remember when it was so so low. But that's crazy to watch.

Wow. How much excitement can be generated? What? I don't snore.

did you have the camera set on blur?

@sharon94503

3 жыл бұрын

Our old friend 240p!

sorry about the dock, but still an interesting video

Your dock wasn’t any damn good sitting in 2” of water anyway

@vtwinironhorse

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering WTF....why are there boat docks where there is no water

@mrexists5400

3 жыл бұрын

you do know that water levels were probably higher right? and those docks got to go somewhere when the water level drops right?

@EasyModeFishing

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrexists5400 yeah but a boat dock done right will fluctuate WITH the water. They could’ve built the docks to fluctuate 700’ if they wanted to

This was from the Sandy Creek Arm of Lake Travis. It is most definitely a lake. Lake Travis is not a constant level lake and was built for flood control purposes with the ability to hold quite a bit of extra water once it reachs the full mark. So it fluctuates in order to keep the lakes upstream and downstream from flooding. Those docks can't be solidly anchored for that reason. Ive seen water level vary about 60ft in a year. So they are tied to the shore and tied to at least 2 usually 500 to 1000 lb concrete anchors in the water.

@counciousstream

5 жыл бұрын

It's a riverbed with a dam.

@freakindawgen

5 жыл бұрын

Usually the left bank inward is under water?

@seandunn2062

3 жыл бұрын

It’s either sandy creek or the perdanales

When you're so rich you put your house on a volcano and then complain when something changes😂🤣

@labaccident2010

4 жыл бұрын

This isn’t a volcano....

@mwatts-riley2688

3 жыл бұрын

Ass. That is not at ALL the events here. Being a dick is best left to breeders of horses and jackasses. M. IL.

@algator55

3 жыл бұрын

@@mwatts-riley2688 all right, you figured out the meaning of life now I can finally rest

@jimthomas777

3 жыл бұрын

@@labaccident2010 , it's the stupid man who builds upon the sand , Yeah , Yeah ,Yeah , there ain't no Volcano , 2 minutes ago there wasn't any water either

I feel for ya man. Glad everyone was safe!!

Der went mya dawk...dah one wid da blue sliiide. FAWK! We gawt another one commin!

People put boat docks on a little branch knowing that it is going to flood. Yatahey. A moment of silence for the damn blue slide.

@franks9621

3 жыл бұрын

I could care less either way. But that's not a little branch of a water way. That's a huge deep lake that was empty.... and yes fuck his dock and the blue slide.

@joshm2089

3 жыл бұрын

@@franks9621 well said

You can see a few docks up on the high shoreline. Obvious a few people knew this was going to happen. Why didn't anyone else?

@ut000bs

8 жыл бұрын

+Gaming With ViperZeroOne Actually, they probably never moved them when the water dropped so low. Maybe they didn't live there or they just hadn't been to the lake.

@JodianGaming

8 жыл бұрын

ut000bs ... Yea, that's possible I suppose

@jsarratt1

8 жыл бұрын

+Concrete Builder Oh dear...LOL

@markdeardorff1128

5 жыл бұрын

We use to go to hippy hollow on Lake Travis on the weekends when I was assigned at Fort Hood. Man did I get a sunburned butt. 1975

@lisaqmoon1

5 жыл бұрын

Lee Galizeit what do you mean by that?

I want Sir David to narrate a segment about the annual migration of the North American Timber Shack

I hate it that for those who lost docks. We have been in same situation on our river/lake.Out of fourteen docks we only lost two. Most everybody here doubled the tie downs and anchors. The ones that were saved was because owners were there to give slack as needed on the mooring lines to keep them floating. But not enough so they could get loose.

Never seen so many boat docks on dry land... well dry before the flash flood at least. Looking at all those docks all I can say is that they sure don't make them like they used to.

you can see the water line where it was long time ago,, sorry about your loss, but rain is a good thing!!

first minute real exciting......

Guess y’all have to go to Home Depot and see if they have a ‘Paradox’ on sale.

I used to live in the Bee Creek area about 40 years ago, the water was at the high water mark then.

Stunning.

You hear a lot of metal being moved or torn down.

That was a bad drought..

I know this might sound daft but why were the floating docks not tethered or were they but the ropes/chaind broke ???

Love the sound of weeping insurance adjusters.

@MrTexasDan

3 жыл бұрын

No. Flood plain. No insurance.

@jimstein8249

3 жыл бұрын

More like Insurance companies scrambling for the loopholes to avoid paying. I've been there for Snow flattening my Garage full of expensive shop equipment.

" if mother nature were a mother, she would be the kind of mother who would take her kids to the bus station and leave them there"

@nachodadi

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@3MONROY

3 жыл бұрын

😆😆

Mother nature telling people to "Get off my property"

@richardtaihitu6157

3 жыл бұрын

YES !!!

Please explain how there are docks on a nearly dry river bed but none of them are secured to anything and they all float tg away.

That's the slowest flash floods I ever saw

yes salage you gotta love it.

We need water like that again!

Can LCRA use this clip for an upcoming video on clean up?

Good way to have your stuff relocated

Man, You got a lot of stupid comments on here. But again. You could post the perfect video of something and some troll will show up. More info on this lake. Lake Travis is just west of Austin Texas. Pretty much the most popular lake in the area. It's also a Flood control lake, in a chain of lakes in the Texas Hill country, so the level of this lake changes, By as much as 80 feet. You can't build a solid dock, It must float to be useful.

@davidhumphreys1422

5 жыл бұрын

So securing them in some way so they don't float away is impossible?

@spikespa5208

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for stating just where this lake is. It isn't a "perfect" video when the person(s) posting it can't be bothered to say WHERE it is. ("Doesn't every one know of Lake Travis?") And not sure that puddle was "filled" by the end of the 8 min. video.

i used to go there every weekend it was so deep u could jump from the tallest rocks and hit water quick. this is awful its dried up for the first time in 100's of years

@keithjurena9319

5 жыл бұрын

Not even 80 years old.

@matthewcrossman980

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

You can tell by the grass color and the erosion along the banks..this is not uncommon...so not sure why yall aren't better prepared..obviously not the first time that much water goes through

@user-sh2mk8ew4c

3 жыл бұрын

It is very very very rare for our lakes to be this dry.

@marklarue7949

3 жыл бұрын

All you smart guys, about tying the docks up; how much water is coming in? When is it going to stop. How long should I make the mooring cables? Too short docks gonna sink. Too long its gonna destroy the neighbor's dock. So please be precise.

That's some impressive trashing of your waterways

I love nature.

Hey sorry you lost your dock but that sure is a nice capture

@chillydawgg4354

3 жыл бұрын

Why not remove the dock before?

I hope you all got things fixed up.. would like to see if the lake is full now..

@dawnkeener9836

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah it was filled in 2 weeks of that first inital rain fall...but we had an 6 yr drought we needed it soo bad.

I guess you be fixin' to build you another dock buddy. 🤗🤗🤗 That's a lake? Looks like a CRICK. But then I'm jus a Missourah gal. What do I know??? ☺️☺️☺️

@seandunn2062

3 жыл бұрын

you’re not from here or else you’d know, you just sound dumb talking about things you know nothing about

Lake Travis, a man made lake made by damming up part of the Colorado river. There was a terrible drought some years ago that nearly dried the whole thing up.

@Carlitosway211

3 жыл бұрын

Most of the lakes in Texas are man made..

@rdgipson

3 жыл бұрын

I guess somebody up and moved the Colorado River when the rest of us weren't looking...

@antoniohess4359

3 жыл бұрын

@@rdgipson 😂😂😂😂

I am assuming this was not a planned release from a dam further upstream? Just rainfall in the mountains?

That's everybody's dock with the blue slide

I get the fact the Lake is WAY down. Why didn’t people take their docks out when they knew a torrent might come when the lake fills back up? Thousands of dollars of structures plus now metal hazards in the lake.

We saw a work boat tying one of the docks up at Hudson Bend. Said they would disassemble move by truck then rebuild. Guess you can't float them back in?

Any oldsters remember "Hippie Hollow" beach? Naked people everywhere.... Been a lot of years...Of course, that was on the lake....

@amybobamie7366

2 жыл бұрын

Yuppers

@amybobamie7366

2 жыл бұрын

And the Oasis!

Don't forget...his was the dock with the blue slide

I always thought docks were secured to stop something like this from happening.

@christopherderaps

8 жыл бұрын

If this is indeed a lake, the docks would never have to contend with river currents. They would be secured by the walkway from the shore to the boat house, and this high current would easily pull the connecting cables apart.

@panosmou4277

7 жыл бұрын

βξ

@gracemansen1430

5 жыл бұрын

Since it a control lake the force of the water could easily take out docs, from what I remember about docs they’re just held on with a little cement and a cable

@schlaznger8049

5 жыл бұрын

@@christopherderaps This is on the river above the lake. All of the boat docks on this lake are of the floating variety instead of being fixed on pylons such as Lake Austin which is the lake below this one. The reason for the floating docks that are connected to concrete anchors placed further out in the lake is so as the water rises and falls the boat dock can be adjusted in or out depending on the water level. The docks that break free like the ones you saw on this video are from owners that do not preform maintenance on there cables and they rust through leaving nothing to hold the boat dock in place. This lake is fairly acidic and galvanized guide cables last on average about 7 years. Some folks are switching out to stainless cable as it lasts much longer time wise. The bad thing about switching to stainless cables is obviously the initial price of buying said cable. Just F.Y.I.

@craniostomy

4 жыл бұрын

@@gracemansen1430 Lawyers too? Or just docs?

Oh the humanity !!!!....I only watched the first two minutes....I was so shaken up.....I dread to ask....how many casualties???

@danielebrparish4271

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think there were any because no one lives on the lake bed. The lake was at a historic low because of many years of drought. A big rain brought the lake back up again. It is a fairly common occurrence. Notice that none of the marinas had any boats in them because everyone knew days in advance about what was coming. Lake Mead, NV was also at historic lows back then. The water was so low that there was no longer any areas to launch boats because the boat landings were high and dry.

Mother Nature is the ultimate bill collector. You have no choice but to pay up when she comes calling.

@phorewhoresman1897

4 жыл бұрын

Be right back, nature is calling and I don't have Depends on.

@mreese8764

4 жыл бұрын

Well, you could collect your dock beforehand.

@billrobbins5874

3 жыл бұрын

Just sad sometimes to see how devastating it can be, in such a short time. The flash flooding would take some time to get used to.

What does it look like now...the lake?

2011 was like the worst drought in years so I'm sure any flooding was appreciated

Did the lake keep filling after this? It would have been interesting to see the final result of the flood.

@douglaslang2218

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it went from 2/3rds empty to over flowing in days.

uhm, is there a reason why all these docks are rogue docks? tie a rope and anchor it, if the water comes, it won't float down stream. Is this the norm for dock owners?

Water is one of the most powerful forces on earth, just remember it picked up the ark in 40 days and moved it wherever it wanted.

Lake Travis, a reservoir formed in 1942, has the largest storage capacity of all the Highland Lakes. While the average depth is 62 feet when the lake is full, the deepest part of the lake (between Volente and Hudson Bend) goes to a depth of 210 feet.I had no clue it's this freaking deep in a few areas, no wonder the docks are floating away!!!

What part of Lake Travis/Colorado River in Austin was this? Spicewood?

I'd consider building a floating dock that can be secured well above the embankment

I was waiting for Bigfoot or a UFO. Whenever the videos are this blurry you get one or the other!

@spaghettibeans

5 жыл бұрын

2012.

@icuabc1235

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@invisibleman7971

3 жыл бұрын

Because bigfoot is actually blurry in real life

The good thing to some, you may have lost your dock but you may have gotten a better one.

I'm curious why docks weren't tethered to something?

Question : If someone else's dock lands in your area or yard , can you then take ownership of it ? Here in Florida during natural disasters / acts of nature if another persons property ends up in your yard you can keep it except for things that have a title like cars , boats ect. but everything else is fare game.....same where you are at ?

@lordieshepherd

9 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't you want to return their property?

Was this actually lake Travis or was this the river that flows into it upstream of the main body of water? The lake can’t be that damn narrow!

@GueyGueycoyotl

3 жыл бұрын

This was lake Travis, looks like the area down near the paleface grocery.

@gdrdro1194

3 жыл бұрын

@@GueyGueycoyotl Exactly...up the Pedernalis

Judging from the shoreline I would venture to guess that the lake level fluctuates significantly. They should have been able to pluck the docks out of the water using a jury rigged crane system. As I kid I would sink railroad ties into the ground end to end and then mount a gantry at the top to pick up my dirt bike over a cyclone fence. The docks look to weigh about 1000 lb and that is a very liftable weight.

Sign seen the next morning...... Leroys used dock emporium. HUGE scratch n dent sale. Everything must go ! Man, that was painful to watch, from a dock owners perspective

We could use something like this in Arizona. 2 years in a row of no monsoon has done lots of damage.

Thats crazy. Sorry aboyt your dock. Im gunna guess you had no warning this was gunna happen.

i went zip lining there once when lake was almost at same water level at start then like 2 weeks later we had that insane rain and filled it again xD

Damn I bet that left one hell of a mess! Does it do this every year? Surely the water doesn’t fall that much each year, that would be a pain in the ass!

I wish I could help...I'm not rich or I would in a heart beat!! I'm sorry for ur loss......where is that at??

are you not allowed to secure your dock to the shore ?

What lake? All I see is a river with dirty water in it..

@AingonAtelia

10 жыл бұрын

Lake Travis is really just a wide spot in the river that runs through Austin, TX. When it's full, it's a nice lake, but with the long drought it's just a wide riverbank.

damn! sorry about your dock dude.

Amazing

Hi Jerry, did you try to put up to dry land?