Houstorian James Glassman sends in this shot of the Wortham Fountain on Allen Pwky. yesterday, with only the nucleus of the dandelion-shaped structure left standing in place amid a dry basin. The unusually windy Laura Day weather did knock out electricity for tens of thousands throughout the Houston area, but isn’t what precipitated the fountain’s depetaling — that  appears to have been the hard freeze that damaged the fountain’s slender bronze pipes at the start of this month:

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• Gus Wortham Memorial Fountain [City of Houston]

Images: James Glassman (top); Bill Barfield via Swamplot Flickr Pool (middle) Buffalo Bayou Partnership (bottom)