This is how bad it is: the lake looked pretty full to us, compared to how we remembered it. But looking across the water at the dam, it was clear that it was still very low, a detail confirmed by my favorite lake-monitoring website: this poor little lake is at only 11.5% of capacity.

Lake Mckenzie, Texas
photographed 12.26.2019

PS. I know it’s weird to have any kind of a lake-monitoring website, let alone a favorite one.