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Medina Lake 2024 Drought

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  • Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
  • Footage captured on June 18, 2024, at Medina Lake, Bandera and Medina Counties, Texas, showing the results of the drought on water levels at this recreational and agricultrual water impoundment.
    Footage is available for licensing for editorial or environmental films. Contact Aaron Yates at aaron@kerrvillephoto.com

Комментарии • 33

  • @3Storms
    @3Storms Месяц назад +5

    The problem is more than the drought. For the past few years rain water that normally ran off to replenish Medina Lake has suddenly re-routed "totally on its own" to channel to the Edwards aquifer instead. So no amount of rain helps the lake when it's being diverted to supply the growing populations.

    • @rubyrainsong
      @rubyrainsong Месяц назад +4

      Wait, what? Are you serious? So people’s wells are going dry now because of this situation? Hmmm… Seems sketchy. Y’all know that SAWS is suing BMA water?

    • @risky1
      @risky1 25 дней назад +3

      You are EXACTLY Right !!!!! If this lake is to survive, SAWS needs to keep it's hands off.

    • @risky1
      @risky1 9 дней назад +1

      "Totally on it's own" ????? I have traveled the entire length of the Medina River starting in Bandera. It's a straight shot.....through ROCK and I have to call "BULLONEY" on this one.

  • @jasonbruney8842
    @jasonbruney8842 Месяц назад +1

    I use to water ski there in the 80s. There was a really bad drought then and it never dropped that much. Always plenty of water

  • @hikingwithjackieboy
    @hikingwithjackieboy 2 месяца назад +3

    I was out there recently. The lake is only at 2.3 % full. The recent tropical systems didn't do much for the lake.

    • @AaronYates
      @AaronYates  2 месяца назад +1

      I was hoping Beryl might help it, but again, we missed the tropical rains.

    • @Yoursunshine-ku9yi
      @Yoursunshine-ku9yi Месяц назад +1

      Didn’t do anything,we didn’t get anything out of that storm unfortunately

    • @AaronYates
      @AaronYates  Месяц назад

      @@Yoursunshine-ku9yi No tropical storm, no hurrican residuals. So sad about that!

  • @rubyrainsong
    @rubyrainsong Месяц назад +3

    You guys should start paying attention to the radar when rain is in area. It’s fascinating to see the storms approach then completely disintegrate over the lake then often reform after passing. So strange. I’ve been documenting this strange phenomenon for almost 2 years.

    • @Lumilan
      @Lumilan Месяц назад +1

      I have a friend in Bandera who experiences the same thing. A storm will move in from the west, and then split in half going around him in either direction, only to meet again in San Antonio.

    • @rubyrainsong
      @rubyrainsong Месяц назад

      @@Lumilan It happened again. Last night. It should have rained. But it didn't.

    • @risky1
      @risky1 21 день назад +1

      @@Lumilan Ever notice that when rain is eminent ... you see the Chem Trails in the sky ?? There have been over 70 patents issued for controlling the weather issued. And don't think you are going to find all of them because the Patent Office has the right to conceal any patent they so desire.

    • @steveo1574
      @steveo1574 10 дней назад

      This is because of the ground effect of temp differences. The same happens over airports.

    • @rubyrainsong
      @rubyrainsong 10 дней назад

      @@steveo1574 I can see how that is entirely possible over a black asphalted area like an airport. For me, it doesn't make sense that this is happening almost every time rain is near Medina Lake (a body of water NOT asphalt). It's been happening these past couple of days in fact. Rain everywhere EXCEPT the lake.

  • @chelleroberson3222
    @chelleroberson3222 2 месяца назад +4

    Theres no debate . This lake was built for agriculture not recreational

    • @AaronYates
      @AaronYates  2 месяца назад

      The only debate is the reasons for the lake being so variable during certain times. How much is due to drought, agriculture, or management by the various authorities overseeing the lake.

    • @risky1
      @risky1 25 дней назад

      @@AaronYates MIS-Management. There is a video on RUclips that the "SAVE MEDINA LAKE" Group went down to BMA to request that meters be put on the Gates. Their Answer: "ABSOLUTELY NOT"
      Why does BMA not want us to "meter" how much water goes out of the Lake?
      And everybody knows why.

    • @risky1
      @risky1 25 дней назад

      Medina Lake was built for Agricultural Purposes - Canyon Lake was built as a Secondary Water Source for San Antonio population. So the question is: Do you want to die from Starvation or Thirst ?

  • @keithjurena9319
    @keithjurena9319 Месяц назад +1

    It takes 10" of runoff over the entire drainage area to fill this lake. That same drainage basin gets an average of 25" of rain each year, the average evaporation rate is 35" per year.
    Since 1913, all tributaries of the Medina River have been modified with small dams within riparian rights, mostly. This has greatly increased evaporation and only allow the greatest rainfall rates to fill the Lake.

  • @rolandkillin8394
    @rolandkillin8394 Месяц назад +1

    It's temporary. Medina has always been in and down. Look at 2014.

  • @frankcastillo394
    @frankcastillo394 Месяц назад

    Is the park open for fishing?

    • @AaronYates
      @AaronYates  Месяц назад

      The sign said closed and there was a gate locked when I was there. Not sure about today.

    • @risky1
      @risky1 День назад

      YES....but it's CATFISH ONLY..... and by that i mean STRAY CATS that run around the area.

  • @bryantrackhurricanes1367
    @bryantrackhurricanes1367 2 месяца назад +2

    Flash flood alley lied to us

  • @lizhale7572
    @lizhale7572 2 месяца назад

    It’s terribly low.

  • @coletrick8748
    @coletrick8748 Месяц назад +1

    This drought is unfortunately very different. Medina lake won’t recover from this and will soon be completely dry.

  • @hakuji4829
    @hakuji4829 6 дней назад

    Well.. I wish I would have seen this BEFORE .. I drove to the lake 😂… GOOGLE MAPS CATFISHED ME!!!

  • @beaurex4756
    @beaurex4756 Месяц назад

    It's almost as if god is punishing Texas.

    • @coletrick8748
      @coletrick8748 Месяц назад

      It’s not only Texas. It’s lakes all over the Country.