September was a big month for Houston real estate! The winds . . . the flooding . . . the neighborhood barbecues. If you were out of power for any of it, you may have missed some of these great stories on Swamplot:

• Swamplot wins a “Best of Houston” award from the Houston Press . . . for what?
• Microsoft’s Photosynth will revolutionize online real-estate ogling . . . someday. Maybe.
• What are all those mysterious new buildings in the new Discovery Tower video?
• The Ashby Highrise: Docked, for now
• A little bit of England comes to Studewood’s Wild Wild West
• The Last Days of Royce Builders
• The new green condo building planned for Hyde Park — and its solar-powered sales center
• Landscape students take on the Washington Corridor
• Lots of lonely new construction in Katy!
• The Slow Building movement gets some attention in the Heights
• Randall Davis’s Sonoma doubles down on the “knock down buildings first, secure funding later” strategy
• Gawking at River Oaks gates
• Protesting renovation plans for the old Sterling Bank building on I-45
• Touring Hurricane Ike destruction: Kirby Dr., the Heights, Idylwood, Downtown offices, the Beatles, Crosby, around town
• Can beer bring power?
• After Ike, “finding your home online” takes on a whole new meaning
• A heartwarming story of just-in-time demolition
• Toxic Taylor Lake
• Full-on Houston deck porn
• You do not want to look at this apartment. Seriously.