Floodwaters rush into the Highland Lakes

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  • From 3-7 inches of rain overnight Oct. 25- 26 caused flooding, including on Slab Road in Kingsland, throughout the Highland Lakes. Around noon on Thursday, Oct. 26, LCRA opened a second floodgate at Max Starcke Dam for storm runoff, causing swifter than usual currents downstream and into Lake Travis. Lake Marble Falls was temporarily closed to boating due to swift water. Contributed photos/Joe Woolsey
    From 3-7 inches of rain overnight Oct. 25- 26 caused flooding, including on Slab Road in Kingsland, throughout the Highland Lakes. Around noon on Thursday, Oct. 26, LCRA opened a second floodgate at Max Starcke Dam for storm runoff, causing swifter than usual currents downstream and into Lake Travis. Lake Marble Falls was temporarily closed to boating due to swift water. Contributed photos/Joe Woolsey
  • From 3-7 inches of rain overnight Oct. 25- 26 caused flooding, including on Slab Road in Kingsland, throughout the Highland Lakes. Around noon on Thursday, Oct. 26, LCRA opened a second floodgate at Max Starcke Dam for storm runoff, causing swifter than usual currents downstream and into Lake Travis. Lake Marble Falls was temporarily closed to boating due to swift water.
    From 3-7 inches of rain overnight Oct. 25- 26 caused flooding, including on Slab Road in Kingsland, throughout the Highland Lakes. Around noon on Thursday, Oct. 26, LCRA opened a second floodgate at Max Starcke Dam for storm runoff, causing swifter than usual currents downstream and into Lake Travis. Lake Marble Falls was temporarily closed to boating due to swift water.
  • From 3-7 inches of rain overnight Oct. 25- 26 caused flooding, including on Slab Road in Kingsland, throughout the Highland Lakes. Around noon on Thursday, Oct. 26, LCRA opened a second floodgate at Max Starcke Dam for storm runoff, causing swifter than usual currents downstream and into Lake Travis. Lake Marble Falls was temporarily closed to boating due to swift water. Contributed photos
    From 3-7 inches of rain overnight Oct. 25- 26 caused flooding, including on Slab Road in Kingsland, throughout the Highland Lakes. Around noon on Thursday, Oct. 26, LCRA opened a second floodgate at Max Starcke Dam for storm runoff, causing swifter than usual currents downstream and into Lake Travis. Lake Marble Falls was temporarily closed to boating due to swift water. Contributed photos

From 3-7 inches of rain overnight Oct. 25- 26 caused flooding throughout the Highland Lakes. Pictured here is the dam at Town Lake in Llano. Around noon on Thursday, Oct. 26, LCRA opened a second floodgate at Max Starcke Dam to handle the storm runoff, causing swifter than usual currents downstream. Lake Marble Falls, in which Starcke creates, was temporarily closed.

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