Earlier today we introduced a new category for this year’s Swamplot Awards for Houston Real Estate. There are a total of 3 so far: Favorite Houston Design Cliché, Best Demolition and a newbie: the “Where Are They Now?” Award. Now we’ll open up nominations for another category making its debut this year: Best Industrial Incident.
Time for some flash and bang! Houston’s lack of zoning and particular economic mish-mash make for some interesting neighbors; sometimes those neighborly relationships heat up, or get a little smelly. What was the best chemicals-meet-the-cute-little-neighborhood-next-door story this year? Most interesting unintentional send-off by land, sea, or air? Most dramatic accidental fireworks display? Feel free to creatively misinterpret this category — just be sure to sell your vision as you describe your nominee.
To submit your nominations for the official ballot, tell us about your top choices in the comments section below (along with as good a description as you can muster). You can always email it to us, too — just get it in by midnight this Wednesday, December 7. More guidelines can be found here.
- Introducing The Third Swamplot Awards Category: The “Where Are They Now?” Award
- The Second Swamplot Awards Category Is Now Open for Your Nominations: Best Demolition of 2016
- The First Category in the Swamplot Awards, Now Open For Your Nominations: Favorite Houston Design Cliché
- How To Make a Nomination for the 2016 Swamplot Awards for Houston Real Estate
- Swamplot Award Nominations 2016
Undeniably the Spring Branch warehouse fire: http://abc13.com/news/questions-remain-after-warehouse-fire-in-spring-branch/1332408/
Over 150 firefighters, Michael Bay-esque explosions, and chemical runoff into neighboring waterways dominated the headlines.
@HAG – I was just about to post the same thing. What a disaster.
It’s a dark horse, but I’d hate to see a winner run unopposed. I’m nominating “worker crushed by 1,000 lb load” from July: http://www.fox26houston.com/news/176598064-story
Guy getting crushed by Corporate Plaza demolition and getting off unscathed (and caught on tape!!) is an inspiring tale of survival and reminder why it’s always a good idea to carry clean pair of undergarments “cause you never know when a garage is gonna drop on you”
This is the clear winner of this Swampie.
http://swamplot.com/corporate-plaza-fails-to-demolish-its-demo-crew-in-surprise-garage-collapse/2016-02-10/
I will nominate the Shadow Creek Ranch smell. There have been over two dozen investigations to try to figure out where the smell is coming from. But there are so many potential sources from chemical facilities to landfills that TCEQ has yet to be able to pinpoint the stink.
Ummmm….I would argue that the collapse of oil prices probably did more damage to Houston (and the energy industry) than any release of toxins, fires, or floods.
Spring Branch chemical fire for the win.