{"id":240057,"date":"2013-02-14T11:46:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T17:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=240057"},"modified":"2013-02-15T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:54:32","slug":"area-lake-levels-lower-than-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=240057","title":{"rendered":"Area Lake Levels Lower than Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=240198\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-240198\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/02\/Lake-Tyler3jpg-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Tyler3,jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-240198\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS \u2014 East Texas has experienced drought and recent rainfall this past week, and reports say lake levels across the state sit below normal. Some lakes in East Texas hit their record low. KETK spoke to licensed fishing guide Jim Beggerly at Jim\u2019s Fishing; he says lake levels are at historic lows for this time of year. But the news isn\u2019t all bad. \u201cOne of the bright spots is our own Lake Palestine. Lake Palestine has recovered quite well from the drought of 2010-2011 and is now up close to normal pool,\u201d said Beggerly. <\/p>\n<p>Beggerly says at this time the lake level at Lake Fork remains 3 feet low, Lake Tyler is 2 feet low, and Lake Palestine has a normal pool averaging close to 3 feet low. Levels have gradually recovered. Beggerly says the normal fluctuation range is about 2 1\/2 feet. Tyler fisherman Stephen Sheppard says, \u201cLast year my sister and them \u2014 their lake lot was about so far down they couldn\u2019t even get their boat in the lake, so this year is better.\u201d Beggerly cautions that the lower levels can make it dangerous for fishermen and boaters. \u201cNow you\u2019ve got stumps that are now near the water level just under the surface, stumps that are dangerous,\u201d says Beggerly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS \u2014 East Texas has experienced drought and recent rainfall this past week, and reports say lake levels across the state sit below normal. Some lakes in East Texas hit their record low. KETK spoke to licensed fishing guide Jim Beggerly at Jim\u2019s Fishing; he says lake levels are at historic lows for this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=240057\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Area Lake Levels Lower than Normal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 10:36:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240057"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240280,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240057\/revisions\/240280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}