The remnants of Hurricane Rick collided with a cold front as promised and gave Central Texas a big rain event. Much of the area had rain for 15 straight hours. The showers did dump too much rain near Kingsland producing flooding. The radar estimated 6 to 9 inches of rain near Lake LBJ. Sure enough the gauges verify the totals.

The Sandy Creek and Pedernales River did reach flood stage last night. 24 hours before the rain there was barely in the water in them and now they are raging rivers.

There was so much rain upstream that the LCRA had to open 4 floodgates at Wirtz Dam on Lake LBJ and 10 floodgates at Starke Dam near Marble Falls. The water flowing downstream at 120,000 cubic feet per second.

Since the rain has ended the flood threat is winding down. However, all the water is heading for Lake Travis finally!!! It could go up 10 to 12 feet in the next 24 hours.

Here is a look at some more rain totals across the area.