North Texans Welcome Recent Rain
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LAKE WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - Every drop of rain. Every bit of melted run off has been pouring water into parched North Texas lakes. The Texas Water Development Board reports Dallas area lakes were up 4.4% as of Monday morning.
"Oh! I love it!" exclaimed Cheryl Wright who lives on the shore of Lake Worth. "It's what we need!"
Lake Worth is a shallow lake even when it's full. Monday morning it was three feet below normal levels even though the lake has risen from 64% to 70% of capacity in the past month.
"Well, you can kind of see where the water level usually is," Wright said as she pointed to water marks on a pier's pylon three feet above the water line.
The recent rain, sleet and snow is welcomed by lake residents. For months, they struggled to cope with receding. waters.
"When you live out here you learn," Wright said. "We have the little a steppingstone bricks we set out there in front of the boat, it's a pontoon boat, to where you walk on top of the bricks to get in and out."
"The stumps, every time we take the JetSki out you hit the stumps," said Chris Hickman who lives next to Wright. "We got stuck in the boat and everything."
But, finally, the water is on the rise. People are grateful for the water, but they want more."
"I can still see stumps though, so, it's good but we could still use more," Hickman laughed.
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