By DAVID HARPER Dust Bowl was followed by many projects Oklahomans are used to going to lakes for outdoor fun. There was a time, though, when the state had a lot fewer lakes and paid for it with crippling floods and droughts -- most notably during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

By Chad Crow, The Daily Oklahoman Jul. 18--Water no longer is flowing across the Lake Texoma dam's spillway, officials say. The lake level dropped to just under 640 feet above sea level on Tuesday, putting it just below the spill-over point it hit a week ago.

By David Harper, Tulsa World, Okla. Jul. 15--Oklahomans are used to going to lakes for outdoor fun. There was a time, though, when the state had a lot fewer lakes and paid for it with crippling floods and droughts -- most notably during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

By Tony Thornton, The Daily Oklahoman Jul. 6--Crowds gathering to watch floodwater top the Lake Texoma spillway will have to wait a while. The lake level rose just 6 inches between 9 a.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. today. Water remains about 3 inches below the top of the spillway, said Ross Adkins, U.S.

By Tony Thornton, The Daily Oklahoman Jul. 5--LAKE TEXOMA -- Lake Texoma may not top its spillway, after all, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official said this morning. "It may end up being a non-story," said Ross Adkins, the corps' Oklahoma spokesman.