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Gone up 35 feet in two days. The little town of Gail (Borden County) has received 18+ inches of rain in the last three days. That would be the normal yearly rainfall.

Lake has gone from essentially dry to 80,000 acre feet of water storage. My handy-dandy calculator tells me that's about 26 Billion gallons of water. From 2.5% full to 26% full in days, and it's still raining.

My mom's family used to have a cabin there when I was a kid. When I was at A&M, I went by on one trip home to see it again. They were grazing cattle in front of the dock where we used to fish and ski. An electric cattle fence was tied to the corner post of our dock.

Amarillo TV said water was going over the spillway, but best I can tell, it's still about 21 feet from full. I wonder if they were referring to Bull Creek. That's a paralell creek that is dammed and has a canal to divert to Thomas.

Please send down river to Buchanan.

JB Thomas was my first fishing experience. My grandfather used to fish for catfish with homemade chicken blood bait and he would sometimes take my brother and I fishing when we visited. Good times, good memories. It wasn't that great of a lake but it's very good to see it and any/all lakes survive this drought..

Many great memories on that lake with my grandfather as well. I'm from Lamesa, we would go at least twice a month.

Can it be duck hunted? I can't find anything about it on the interwebz.

Up another foot today, now at 85,800 acre-feet.

My mom's family was from Sparenberg, Lamesa and Slaton. Dad's from Ackerly. Mom's family had the cabin. Lots and lots of good times there. My grandad (mom's dad) caught a 37 pound catfish off the dock one year. Got a picture in the paper.

There was always a legend of a 6-foot long catfish living in the deep water next to the dam. I'm guessing it was never found, even when the lake dropped.

Looks to be at 2008 levels.

Anyone within a mile of the Pecos River was asked to evacuate their homes over the weekend out here in West Texas, and they don't believe the river will crest until Wednesday. I had almost 4" of rain over the weekend in Midland. SE New Mexico got pounded too and the National Guard was doing rescues on frac sites where pick up trucks started to get washed away.

Dad sent me this picture yesterday..This is as high as I can remember the lake being in a very long time!! It will be interesting to see how much the lake raises by the end of the week!

The lake graph for Alan Henry looks the same.

Sorry for the folks adversely affected by the flooding, but this kind of rain was desperately needed.

The CRMWD said it was at 48% full right now. 85,000 acre feet. 1987 levels. I have not been there in that long.

Is Lake Meredith catching any of that rain?

Storage data for most of the major reservoirs in Texas are updated daily at the website below.

http://waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/statewide


The 85,000 acre-feet currently in storage in JB Thomas appears to the most since 1973 (judging only from the data provided in the Texas Water Development Board graph below).

Were getting pissed on here in se new mexico

15th - 22nd of sept rainfall totals

Looks like Travis is up 5 ft on the year, 2 of that from the last week.

Thomas is on the Colorado river, Meredith is on the Red (Canadian) drainage. The Brazos watershed lies between them. None of the heavy stuff came any further tha the Brazos watershed.

"Raindrops keep falling on my head . . . "

Look at the 10 and 14 day NOAA rainfall totals... That fuchsia part is my home. Well thats one way to fix a drought.

To put things into perspective, our average yearly rainfall is 12.7 inches and we've had around 15 inches in the past 10 days.

So on the way back from sitting through the entire Ole Miss game (Old Army - Whoop!) I couldn't resist a drive by of Lake Thomas. Photos to follow.



Looking NW from south end of dam




Looking north along dam

Neat pictures. Thanks for sharing

Okay, this was weird. The water near the dam was red. But there was a clear line of demarcation where it turned blue further upstream.

This photo was taken looking north at 32.5934 -101.2225 lat/long on Google Maps. Road 338 used to cross the lake. No more.




This was our family cabin in the 50s and 60s and a little into the 70s. Good times, but no more. This whole area has been taken over by junk dealers it appears. It is a mess.



Family dock where we used to ski and fish. Grandfather caught a 36 pound catfish off this dock. Me, nothing but perch.

Looking north off our dock toward Wildcat Creek. A little water here, but only in the creek bottom.



Our dock



The lake is home to more reptiles than fish these days.

This last links to a video. It's an old oil well near the Big Spring pumping station. It's powered by a one-cylinder stationary engine. Sorry for the wind noise.

Oil Well

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Well, Freese and Nichols has survived the drought.

Appreciate the pictures, very interesting to see how things have changed.

I assume JD pickle is some relation to US rep JJ pickle from Big Spring

There is a facility at TU named after JJ Pickle. Also SH 130 around Austin is the Pickle Pkwy

Also the Pickle Research Center in north Austin.

I would assume there's some relationship there.

E.V. Spence is the namesake of another dwindling water body out that direction (in Robert Lee).

Thanks for sharing the pics. I live in Seminole, and I haven't had a chance to go take a look.

Wonder if they will restock the lake?

Awesome.

Awesome!