- Flooding Woes Have Meyerland Residents Anxious About Neighborhood’s Curbside Appeal [Houston Chronicle]
- Is Meyerland Now a Detention Pond for the Texas Medical Center? [Houston Press; previously on Swamplot]
- Public Works Didn’t Install Barriers for 27 Flood-Prone Underpasses Because It Assumed Drivers Would Ignore Them [Houston Press]
- Bison Found Roaming in Floodwaters in Bear Creek Park [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
- Tiger Evacuated from Harris County Rescue Farm Captured After Seen Wandering the Streets of Conroe [CNN]
- The Scene from the Westador Subdivision in North Houston, Which is Still Flooded and Without Power [Houston Public Media]
- Available Houston-Area Office Space at a 16-Year High of Nearly 20%, According to NAI Partners [Houston Chronicle]
- Midway’s Mixed-Use Development Memorial Green Signs 6 Commercial Tenants [Realty News Report; previously on Swamplot]
- BHGRE Gary Greene Opens 23rd Houston-Area Sales Office in Tomball [Houston Chronicle]
- Houston Homeowners Carry One of the Highest Mortgage Debt Loans Nationally, Finds Wallethub [HBJ]
- Southeast Houston Railroad Crossing on Mykawa near Long Considered Among the Most Dangerous in the U.S. by the FRA [KHOU]
- San Francisco First Major U.S. City To Require All New Buildings 10 Stories or Under To Have Solar Panels [The Guardian]
Photo of Midtown: Jackson Myers via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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The Wallethub “findings” are questionable in their usefulness because they are comparing “average” mortgage debt against “median” house price. (If not explicitly stated, I assume average is arithmetic mean.) Anyway, by their measure, some of the suburbs appear to be doing quite well. Notably, Stafford made the 1st percentile.
Re: Public Works Didn’t Install Barriers for 27 Flood-Prone Underpasses
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And, this is why City workers and managers get NO respect – they seem to leave their common sense at the door when picking up their ID badge. I can only guess at how many taxpayer dollars were squandered in buying the items then warehousing them.
You can check out a video of that lightning strike here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P7bVdKAHMM
@Major Market – did you read the article? Sounds like a lot of thought went into the decision, along with some equipment trials, and recurring issues from dumbass drivers. I would have made the same decision.
But hey — they’re patching potholes in 24 hours now!