- Tons of Debris Now Being Collected from 4,000 Flood-Damaged Buildings [Houston Public Media]
- Flooded-Out Homeowners: Fix Up and Move Back In, Sell As Is, Tear Down and Build New, or Move? [Houston Chronicle]
- Project Brays Improvements Saved Homes, but Construction Delays Meant Waters Still Rose in Upstream Neighborhoods [Houston Chronicle]
- More Than a Dozen State Parks Damaged By Flooding Close or Partially Close in Wake of Storm [Houston Public Media]
- Swollen Rivers and Lakes May Not Return to Normal Levels Until July in Texas [Houston Chronicle]
- Houston Gator Catchers See Increase in Business [Houston Chronicle]
- Aloft Can Move Forward with Redeveloping 820 Fannin St. into Hotel After Building Permit Approved [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- First Residents Begin Moving into Vargos on the Lake on Former Site of Vargo’s Restaurant Near Piney Point Village [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- 28 New Darling Homes Coming to Gated Parkway Terrace on Eldridge Near Westheimer [HBJ]
- 24-Megawatt Hydroelectric Plant Now Under Construction at Lake Livingston [Fuel Fix]
- New Caney Theme Park Grand Texas Master Plan Reworked To Accommodate Slipped Construction Timeline, Add Outlet Mall [Community Impact Newspaper]
- Sigma Brewing Company Set To Open in East Downtown Toward the End of This Year at 3118 Harrisburg Blvd. [HBJ]
- Star Cinema Grill Building New 42K-SF Dine-In Movie Theater Near Westpark Tollway and Grand Pkwy. Set To Open in Fall 2016 [HBJ]
- Flow Juice Bar Coming to Uptown Park, Next to the Tasting Room [HBJ]
- Florida-Based PDQ Opening May 31 in Bunker Hill, Cypress Location To Follow Later This Year [Houston Chronicle]
- Metro Considering Building Parking Garage or Using Lottery for Spaces in Existing Park-and-Ride Lot at I-10 and the Grand Pkwy. [Houston Public Media]
- David Adickes’ Beatles Statues Moving from I-10 and Taylor To Artist’s New Offices off Nance To Make Way for New Nightclub Parking [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
Photo of I-45 from North St. on Tuesday: Bill Shirley [license]
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Star Cinema Grill and Santikos Palladium are going to have to duke it out. That may be more entertaining than most newly released movies.
Anyone have any idea how many total-loss houses there are, roughly?
Tear Down and Build New…. It’s what we do in Houston. But this time build pier/beam or higher off the ground. Better yet, build out of concrete. House floods no problem. Wash it out and move back in.
The part of Project Brays on the East End in Mason Park did well, but it was completed. They had added the salt water marshes on the north side of the bayou and a detention pond/wildflower pit on the south side and both weren’t close to capacity, despite handling all of that upstream water.
And I doubt if a single home or business on the East End flooded but it’s always been fairly dry during floods. If the founders of Houston had realized how safe the eastern areas of this area were from flooding compared to the northern and western areas they would have built the city over here. On second thought..I recall reading that the Allen brothers actually tried buying land in Harrisburg but no one was selling much..so they settled on land upstream instead.
Dana-X,
Four of the remaining homes in Idylwood that face Brays Bayou did flood, substantially, in spite of all the work done on it in that area.
Ah yes…Idylwood. I completely forgot about those houses along the bayou. Sad to hear about them but nature is persistently letting us know where we can live and where we can’t.