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  1. mollusk
    Last time I looked, the sign on the easels on the tunnel level in Pennzoil and Esperson said 2Q this year - which certainly looks doable, if a bit tight.
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    Key word: inefficient. As in, single pane glass, old school 1 or 2 zones a floor HVAC, dark roofs, etc., etc. - like an office I had a few years ago in an early 80s building in which we alternately baked or froze, depending on the season. We were on the top floor (21); you could see the uninsulated underside of the concrete roof deck above the ceiling tiles.
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    Looking at that link, it's amazing how much that building improves when the facade color is adjusted to something that wouldn't belong better on a 1962 Thunderbird.
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    I couldn't get a decent picture, but the rebar is now above the street level.
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    Best picture of the Pink Pussycat that I've seen since it was actually there (***sigh...***).
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    Dated, perhaps, but it really uses the space efficiently. It's also the same granite as the tower, even though it's several blocks away, and curvy rather than angular. BTW, that was really the amount of traffic that was around at the time. We had perhaps half the population we do now.
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    Funny thing is, the Katy was both the first and last freeway they were on.
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    Keep in mind - some areas are going to have more pedestrian activity than others, and time of day enters into the mix, too.
  9. mollusk
    Sounds like a situation where the best thing to do is smile and nod, thinking (but not saying) "bless your heart."
  10. mollusk
    They are the same road in the same sense that FM 1093 and Westheimer are. Actually 90A departs from Houston's South Main when it turns onto OST, and ultimately Wayside, before joining US 90 / Interstate 10.
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    IDK whether it was so much to leave room for expansion as it was that the town of Harrisburg was already there, around where the Loop crosses the ship channel (which was itself a massive expansion of the bayou and the San Jacinto River after their confluence).
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    Considering the issues they had with imploding part of the unoccupied Houston Club building, I can't imagine that they would have an implosion when there are people living a foot away.
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    Isn't moving cities part of the plot of Mortal Engines?
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    Oh, so you've met Aunt Violet...
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    Judge Hidalgo said pretty much the same thing in Spanish that she did in English, as do Art Acevedo, Sam Peña, the ASL interpreter, Garrett Morris doing News For The Hard Of Hearing, etc., etc., etc. This wasn't my aunts swapping their gossiping over to Polish when the kids from Texas drew near, instead, it was all about communicating to as many people as possible. Anyone who is scared that she was sliding in some secret stuff for her peeps is paranoid at best.
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    Can you point us to a source for the idea that Galveston's dunes were 20 feet tall? Or perhaps some less developed barrier island on the Gulf coast that has such a thing? The city was raised with sand dredged from the harbor. https://www.asce.org/project/galveston-seawall-and-grade-raising-project/
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    Ugly is in the eye of the beholder, just as much as beauty is. Some people like prairies.
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    You want examples of rare, endangered prairie species? OKfine. Starting with birds: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/08/news-attwater-prairie-chicken-murder-mystery-endangered-species/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/w/whooping-crane/
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    Don't plastic bags, cups, and bottles make up a significant portion of the trash that winds up on/in Lake Houston? Then, there's this: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/whale-dies-88-pounds-plastic-philippines/
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    We should be able to rely on TCEQ and Harris County both for accurate information, considering that the way that we pool our resources in order to do things that are too big for any one or ten of us, and to have a neutral gatekeeper / regulator, is something called "government." "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" - Sinclair Lewis Then again, that would require giving them the resources to do so instead of having to rely on the money fairy. "I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    Wooden skyscrapers of the future somehow bring this to mind:
  24. mollusk
    We need more Audis for authenticity.
  25. mollusk
    Cars, buses, BRT, light rail, and heavy (commuter) rail are all resources. No single one of them can take care of all the transportation needs. Personally, I think the most heavily used park and ride routes would make good candidates for heavy rail. IAH would make a good stop on a heavy rail route, too. Hobby's in a dense enough area that extending it down Griggs/Long Drive and Telephone Road to get there would likely add ridership to the entire route, which wouldn't prevent it from also being a heavy rail stop on the way to points south.
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