Who would have predicted that those of us who live near Lake Texoma and those of us who like to visit Lake Texoma could ever get numb to the water going over the spillway at the Denison Dam?

I’d say it’s happened in the last couple weeks.

Tonight or tomorrow the lake level will drop below 640 feet above sea level, which means the lake will stop flowing over the spillway.

It’s barely news any more. We’re just numb to the flooding and the overflowing.

People fishing the river below the dam are having a great time, some of the best fishing in their lives, while people with property around the lake are trying to clean up and take stock of the dramatic, unprecedented damage.

The whole world marveled at the Army Corps of Engineers’ scary video of the giant bathtub-drain-like vortex created by water exiting the lake. Honestly, if you do a search for “vortex on Lake Texoma” you’ll find posts from all over the world. It’s amazing…  It’s like we discovered Big Foot or something.

But we’re numb to the vortex, too. It was exciting at first, even if devastating, but now we’re tired and we’re on notice. That’s probably the worst part.

We're on notice that it might rain a lot and the lake might rise again. Soon.

We watch the weather forecast obsessively, and monitor the lake level automatically. We just can’t help it. Don’t forget, we’ve been doing it for a whole month now.  Today is June 30th, and that’s a month since Lake Texoma first went over the spillway this year.

The flooding in 2015 was seen by far more people than the flooding in 2007, and there’s one simple reason – drones. Now drones are commonly available and people used them to shoot videos and post to YouTube for the world to see.

I guess that’s progress, in a way.