As difficult as the rains and flooding (and death, which is far worse) have been, all of this rain has been a huge blessing to the reservoirs in central Texas and the hill country that have been under severe drought conditions for the last several years.
Lake Travis hit a low of 618 ft in 2013, and I'm not sure how full it was at that time -- ~20% -- that's just a guess. They were predicting that it would be dry by 2016. (
Officials predict Lake Travis will run dry by 2016 - MyFoxAustin | KTBC | Fox 7 Austin | News Weather Sports ).
And here we are today:
Lake Travis Water Level
This is a time lapse video of it filling up just during the month of May. At the end of the video, it was 67% full, but today it's 82% full:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZtNJXO4IZ4 From May 20-27, it went up by 25 feet!