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When I was a kid, my family spent a few weeks at Willard Bay Resevoir - near Ogden, Utah. When I revisited it in 2004, I took the first two pictures below.

The water levels were so low that the pond - which used to contain rentable motorboats that could then be driven out into the reservoir - no longer had an exit. See picture #1.

As for the resevoir itself - well, I walked several hundred yards into it and took the second photo. Once upon a time, I'd have been 50 feet underwater. So Dallas isn't the only place to experience a drought. It happens somewhere all the time.

I found the final picture of Willard bay on the internet. It may account for some of Dallas's missing water. The "bay" seems to have recovered.


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Texas is drying up...
By: oldCADuser
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Mon, 29 Aug 11 2:20 AM
Msg. 32295 of 65535

The picture below was taken 4 years ago this month near Austin, Texas. It shows Lake Travis, a large reservoir near the city where many locals have built some very nice homes (our CEO has reportedly built his 'retirement' home there):

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Looks nice. doesn't it.


Well this next picture was taken TODAY by our son (he just mailed it to me from his Droid). This shows the Lake Travis public boat ramp:

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Where did the water go?


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