ALSO| One dead in Texas Hill Country floods, officials confirm<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe biggest concern is a lot of the lower-lying areas that haven’t seen water. We’ll see water for the first time in a significant amount of time,\u201d said Lago Vista City Manager Charles West.<\/p>\n
West said the city is monitoring both rainfall and lake levels. \u201cWe’re just watching to see what the rain does, and then, of course, we’re watching what the lake levels do. Our biggest concern is the lake levels at this time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Emergency crews are in place in Lago Vista in case conditions worsen. West said Travis County Emergency Services District 1 is coordinating the response to potential flooding in the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main thing we’re doing is we take our leads from the Emergency Service District. They serve as our emergency management coordinators for this area, and they work closely with Travis County, so we’re relying on them,\u201d West said.<\/p>\n
Officials urged people on the water to stay alert as conditions change.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you’re on the lake, we would encourage you to be aware, keep an eye on the weather and the flood forecast, and be prepared to take precautions to stay safe,\u201d Tuma said.<\/p>\n
The LCRA updates its forecasts for lake levels <\/a>online as needed, and the information is available 24\/7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Lake Travis is expected to rise significantly by Friday as more rain moves into parts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-376252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}