Texas could see significant rain in the coming days, something businesses that depend on the lake hope will help them out a bit.
"I'm selling two things here. I'm selling boat club memberships, but before that I have to sell Lake Travis because Travis has a stigma about it,” Peyton Skinner with the Volente Boat Club said.
Lake Travis is currently 38 percent full and has no public boat ramps open.
Skinner says every day before he checks his boat slips, he checks the weather.
"What I can see here is that every day for the next 10 days we are supposed to be receiving between half an inch and some days an inch-and-a-half of rain,” Skinner said.
It's the wettest forecast in five years and one that Skinner hopes will bring a flood of business.
"Rain is life,” he said. “Rain is new customers."
Skinner thinks people will start coming back if a few feet of water end up in the lake, but filling the lake up is going to take something else entirely.
"It won't just take a 4-inch rainfall to do that,” John Hoffman with the Lower Colorado River Authority said. It's going to take multiple 4-inch rainfalls happening over time."
Hoffman says the good news is that our watershed is huge. The bad news: the danger that creates.
"Just as we are looking and welcoming the rain to come, we also have a whole team of people that are looking at the flood management side of this, understanding that you can have some significant localized flooding,” Hoffman said.
Skinner heard the projections many times before, but thinks this time might be the one when the rain falls in the right spot.
"I don't get my hopes up too much, but I will say I'm hopeful for this week. I am,” he said.
Gov. Greg Abbott activated the State Operation Center in advance of all of the severe weather. Visit our weather homepage and stay tuned to our Weather on the 1s on TWC channels 8 and 200 for the latest breaking weather news.