Ross

We have Verizon for our phones, but AT&T for the fiber internet, plus Verizon home wireless internet as a backup. I won't switch to AT&T for cell.

We never had any issues with internet on phones in Timbergrove. I wonder if more cell sites were out in the Heights than in other areas.

Our AT&T fiber came back up when we had power restored. Before that, when we ran a few things on a portable generator, the Verizon Wireless internet worked just fine.

The owner is an LLC named Investeco Group LLC. Registered agent's address is 3010 McKinney. Here's an appeals court case on the property https://casetext.com/case/rodarte-v-investeco-group. It looks like the ownership, overall, is a mess.

The Centerpoint CEO lives in West U. The power lines to his house run down the back of the property from Morningside to Greenbriar and beyond. It's hard to tell if the power lines have trees in them, but the cable and phone lines that are at a lower level certainly do. I have no way of knowing whether he lost power. I can't tell if there's a generator for that house.

The only thing transformative I want to see with the Astrodome is it being demolished. There is no one with the power or money to do anything else.

The City of Houston does not have the money to bury power lines, which is a mediocre idea in any case. The City gets money through property taxes and sales taxes and some other minor sources. Growth in property taxes is constrained by the revenue cap that was voted in 20 years ago and by state law. Sales taxes are at the statutory maximum. Without a change in the laws, Houston can not increase revenues to any great extent. Power lines are owned by Centerpoint, a remnant of the incumbent electric provider Reliant Energy that was created by the power deregulation legislation. Power distribution is a natural monopoly, which the legislation recognized, which is why we have a regulated utility that performs the task. Centerpoint is not going to spend huge amounts of money on improvements without the PUC allowing those costs to go into the rate base.

That's good. I was in my 20's before I knew that flour tortillas even existed. Up to then, I had only seen corn.

In my area, it's not practical to put the power in front when all the meters and panels are in the back, as the trenching for the line to the meters would have to go under driveways or through garages or other inconvenient paths. Even the new houses that replaced demolished houses have the electric meter and panel in the back of the house. This area was developed in 1952, and many of the trees are at end of life. That's why so many went down in May. The age of the neighborhood also means the City doesn't have a good handle on where all of the water mains are. We know there's one in our front yard, as it had a bad leak 12 years ago, and they had to dig it up. They never got the water shot off, as they couldn't find all the valves. We went 6 days without power - it came back Saturday at 4pm At that point, it was 87 degrees in the house. I have some idea of what people are going through. Our dog is controlled after a bunch of training, but we aren't going to risk her running off when some utility worker takes down our fence without telling us. Which has happened in this neighborhood in the past. If we aren't home, she's crated(which she is happy to do)

No. She was married to a Manfred Westheimer. Both of them were Holocaust survivors who lost families to the Nazis. Her maiden name was Siegel.

In my hood, the lines are all behind the houses, along with an 8 inch gas main and a large sewer line. Burying lines would require access to the 20 foot wide easement, burying the power lines, placing transformers connected to the lines, then trenching every back yard, taking down the lines that run from the poles to the houses, and connecting the new buried drop to the meters. If the house has a pool or other structure between the easement and the meter, the work gets more complicated. And you have to hope all of the fences get put back like they were. We have 2 dogs, and one of them has been known to dash out an opening. So, is Centerpoint going to pay for boarding while the work is being done? In the end our power costs would probably double. I don't see the benefit overall.

The building that was there in 1953 is a different shape. HCAD says the front building was built in 1957, which matches the aerials. That is, or was, the MOhawk exchange for numbers starting with 66.

Old Richmond Road is now Bissonet, so this would have been in the City of Bellaire. The Corn is Green came out in 1945.

Lots of the trees that fell in my hood were end of life water oaks and pine trees. Not sure willows would do well in yards.

That was originally a strip of land owned by Humble Pipeline, which acquired the strips around 1930. The property is now owned by the car dealership on the Loop to the NW