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    Hard to see because I photographed this from a moving train, but they've dug a fairly large hole on the "north" side of the building. I'd guess at least 6-8 feet deep:
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    The bus was moving too fast to get good photos, but the tilt walls have been up for a couple weeks and work continues:
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    No. It works on Windows too (confirmed with Firefox at least; I'm sure Chrome also works too).
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    Here's what the finished ballroom looks like. The "Sonokrete" doesn't look too terrible:
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    GFR Starbucks is now under construction:
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    But that's only if it's an antenna mast. It's no longer being used as an antenna mast, but it was decided to leave it up as an architectural spire. So it should count now.
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    Scaffolding has been up since at least Thursday, maybe earlier, and the sidewalk is closed under the scaffolding. All week there were men in white bunny suits covered in ash going in and out of the building, though I saw no activity today. Earlier last week they were pumping water from the basement of the Holy Cross Chapel, and they still have a lot of heavy equipment on site trying to dry out and clean up that building so it can reopen. Haven't heard any news on the building that burned, though.
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    I seem to recall reading that now it's just serving the purpose of an architectural spire. Though in that case, because spires count for the height of buildings (unlike antennas), it should then be considered the second tallest building in Houston (the spire makes it 1000 feet even).
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    Not from a drone but from a Southwest 737, but thanks!
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    The right way to do this would be to extract his posts from the backup and reload them into the forum. I've not worked with the Invision forum software before so I can't give steps on how to do this in your case, but I've done this with other forum software. Since it uses MySQL it's just a matter of writing the right queries, and it can be pretty much automatic regardless of the number of posts (loading the backup into a temporary database, copying the posts to the current database, and updating any pointers). Tedious? Perhaps. But if I had a mistake like what happened here on a forum I ran, you bet I'd be doing it, especially when it was someone who had contributed so much. I am glad you do have backups and I apologize for taking comments made by someone without knowledge of the system at face value and unfairly disparaging you as a result.
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    Unfortunately, no. That is absolutely astonishing, and, quite frankly, completely unacceptable. If the administrators of this site are so incompetent that they can't even be bothered to occasionally make a backup of the site, we should not be wasting our time commenting on it. Computers crash or get hacked all the time, or things get wiped out by human error (as appears to have happened here), and it would be a travesty if that were all lost because of stupidity. We should start a new site that is actually backed up, rather than relying on irresponsible administrators. Perhaps the site admins should make a complete copy of the site available as a torrent that we can all download, to distribute the backup around the world, so in a worst case scenario someone else could bring it online again. That's what I do with my most important (tens of thousands of unique visitors per week) web site -- if I get hit by a bus, I don't want all that user-created content to vanish. In the meantime, someone should volunteer (preferably the administrator responsible for wiping out your content) to go through archive.org to find all posts by you that were archived there, and manually load them back into the forum with the right dates and everything. This whole thing is making me reconsider participating on this forum, unless the administrators can apologize and explain the actions they are taking to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. Back in the days of Usenet we never had this problem, but now with forums being centralized under individual control it makes us realize how much better things were in the 80s and 90s.
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    I'm not sure which you are referring to, but I can say that on the Holy Cross Chapel, the limestone/sandstone is fake. On the JW Marriott, everything above the first three floors is fake except for some panels immediately below the windows on a couple floors.
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    It may well be brick on the upper floors, but what looks like limestone on the ground floor is an EIFS re-creation like the upper floors of the JW Marriott. There are places where the paint-like coating has broken off on the relief, exposing the Styrofoam underneath.
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    I think with this building we are uncertain whether the façade is a slipcover or if it replaced the original façade. Though now that flames are coming out of the roof, the building may be too heavily damaged for it to matter (HFD is flying a drone overhead to inspect, too). Here's the best photo I can come up with of the original 1929 appearance:
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    Now a 4-alarm fire (this photo was taken an hour after the previous one):
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    There's a pretty big fire in this building right now (11 units responding), and I just realized I'd never posted a photo of the latest art:
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    I believe the façade at 901 Main is heavily damaged, so it may need to be recreated out of Styrofoam like they did at 905 Main. But I hope to be proven wrong.
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    Now the ragged edges make more sense. They were just roughing-in the holes, and now they've cut much more accurately to the full final size on the 2nd floor. They are still hacking away at the roof of the 3rd floor, though:
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    Found on reddit today from /u/creation88, it looks like the original façade is largely intact under the cladding, at least on the second floor. Let's hope they are taking the cladding off to restore the original appearance, rather than to put it back up again:
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    The roof of MMP is open now, so it looks like the watch party today will be semi-outdoors.
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    Are there backups where the removed posts can be restored from?
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    From my LAS-HOU flight last week:
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    From last week:
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    From last week:
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    From last week:
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