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    I won't believe it until ground is broken. Too many times Lucy has pulled the football from Charlie Brown on this project.
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    What is that ghostly somewhat highrise in the first drawing?
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    What is already an amazing view is going to be more of an eye full in the near future with The Preston, Texas Tower, The Allen and The Aussie Midtown high rises going up.
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    Anyone know when the pour is scheduled? Grab a gyro or pizza and watch
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    Forever 65 perhaps?
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    It's quite beautiful. What did this building first house?
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    Time will tell if this is correct. This structure may become a photogenic signature area for Houston. Like the Astrodome used to be before it was copied. I don't know any other city that has something like this. Anyone know?
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    The words " consumed by fire" and a high rise apartment building don't seem to blend well.
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    Cody's Restaurant in Montrose, used to have a view from 10 stories, in the 1980's. At that time my wife and I thought the view was spectacular . Can't imagine how much better it would be now. The building has been torn down and replaced by an even taller apartment building.
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    In addition, other cities also have sprawl: DFW, Kansas City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Indianapolis,LA. All had the great majority of their metro growth and design after the War when families were larger, folks purchased automobiles and wanted to live in single family houses. It's less expensive and roomier to live in the suburbs when you have children to raise. No children or just one child, the city may be more affordable.
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    Perhaps one stake for the "International Tower" (International Garage?) adjacent to this building.
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    The TMC3 portion is very impressive.
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    You're right. Finally see downtown as it is not as it was 4 years ago. It looks great.
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    Amazing growth. Great photo. We must have one of the largest, if not the largest "edge cities" in the USA.
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    My daughter loved going there. I couldn't stand the place. Maybe that's why my daughters liked it so much.
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    The TMC website depicts a 'double helix" of sorts ( not to be too pedantic, but it is lacking all the Nitrogenous bases having only the sugar phosphate backbone). Okay that was pedantic, nevertheless there is a sort of double helix depicted. So what is this about no double helix?
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    I thought someone stuck a fork in this one. It's been done for some time.
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    Well I hope you all who carry on about "extending the skyline" ( like me) are happy. With this and all the planned construction in Midtown it's going to look amazing.
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    Some of those folks are going to have a great nighttime view of the skyline. Same for the apartments going up on the east side of 288. a little scotch, music, and great view.
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    We can call the areas with high concentrations of homeless NoDough as august 948 suggests and the areas with the big banks MoDo, and areas that flood as LoDo. I especially like the suggestion of DoDo.
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    One ugly parking garage down and then another not quite as ugly parking garage goes up, like an ugly wart. I also hope they build what they said they will, but am getting a bad feeling about this. I try to ignore it while eating gyros and look at the Hines buildings going up.
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    This is a section of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of NOAA , Aug 15, 2019 Article cited in the Going Up forum of HAIF. Regarding Cyclonic intensity and frequency in the Atlantic the report states. Statistical tests indicate that this trend is not significantly distinguishable from zero (Figure 2). In addition, Landsea et al. (2010) note that the rising trend in Atlantic tropical storm counts is almost entirely due to increases in short-duration (<2 day) storms alone. Such short-lived storms were particularly likely to have been overlooked in the earlier parts of the record, as they would have had less opportunity for chance encounters with ship traffic. Figure 3 (click to enlarge) Figure 4 (click to enlarge) If we instead consider Atlantic basin hurricanes, rather than all Atlantic tropical storms, the result is similar: the reported numbers of hurricanes were sufficiently high during the 1860s-1880s that again there is no significant positive trend in numbers beginning from that era (Figure 3, black curve, from CCSP 3.3 (2008)). This is without any adjustment for “missing hurricanes”. The evidence for an upward trend is even weaker if we look at U.S. landfalling hurricanes, which even show a slight negative trend beginning from 1900 or from the late 1800s (Figure 3, blue curve). Hurricane landfalling frequency is much less common than basin-wide occurrence, meaning that the U.S. landfalling hurricane record, while more reliable than the basin-wide record, suffers from degraded signal-to-noise characteristics for assessing trends.. Some scientists do project that there may be an increase using computer models but this may yet to occur. I have no reason to question the integrity of these scientists. If their findings are inaccurate I am sure other researchers will point it out. In my years of Biomedical research at UT Med there are always other researchers ready to "cut you down to size" if they find inaccuracies.
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    American Meteorological Society July 2018, article by Philip Klotzbach et al. No increase in US Landfalling hurricane frequency nor intensity since the 1880's. Vecchi and Knutson Geophysical Fluid Dynamic Laboratory, NOAA: No increase in Atlantic Tropical Storms from 1878 to 2006. So what has increased? Huge population growth, increase property loss, and increase media coverage.
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    I took the bus when I did my "super-commute" to TMC. Slept alot.
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    The previously named District II is planned for 631 feet in height. Extapolating from the Marriott Marquis this hotel would be around 670 to 680 feet. Can't imagine this is a major problem.
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