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[AusTxDevelopment]

And here is another one from Twitter. The Lamar gas station that flooded added some ick nast to the runoff. @Jake_Briz : https://twitter.com/jake_briz/status/603001562047258624

[MichaelB]

The tunnel project is not finished...... or functioning.
you can google Waller creek tunnel for updates ( city of austin )

[the Genral]

Originally Posted by MichaelB

The tunnel project is not finished...... or functioning.
you can google Waller creek tunnel for updates ( city of austin )

I don't doubt that the engineers who designed this tunnel were qualified to design it to handle the rain event and flooding we just experienced. It's just too bad it wasn't fully operational so we could have seen it pass the test. We may not see this volume of flooding, hopefully for many more years.

[_Matt]

Originally Posted by the Genral

I don't doubt that the engineers who designed this tunnel were qualified to design it to handle the rain event and flooding we just experienced. It's just too bad it wasn't fully operational so we could have seen it pass the test. We may not see this volume of flooding, hopefully for many more years.

Haha, yep. They don't invest a billion dollars in infrastructure without being pretty damn sure things will work fine. That's a major goal of civil engineering.

[AusTxDevelopment]

Originally Posted by _Matt

Haha, yep. They don't invest a billion dollars in infrastructure without being pretty damn sure things will work fine. That's a major goal of civil engineering.

And yet they missed the CVC height restrictions for the intake facility....

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by austxdevelopment

and yet they missed the cvc height restrictions for the intake facility....

lol

[_Matt]

Originally Posted by AusTxDevelopment

And yet they missed the CVC height restrictions for the intake facility....

Well if you recall, the designs go to the city to make the determination, which was made in 2011. Sound more like a city issue.

[drummer]

Agreed. I hope there aren't some anti-development folks who are using this flood as cause for future projects to not happen. I think it will work great when done - it was made just for these larger-than-life floods.

[drummer]

Yeah, but still fairly embarrassing for both parties.

[the Genral]

I think the design engineers wanted to give both functionality and esthetics to the intake. I also think engineers are rational thinkers who probably didn't think a structure not much higher than the surrounding trees would be an issue. Now we wait to see if they can still add a bit of beauty to a 'functioning' tunnel inlet.

[KevinFromTexas]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

[drummer]

That's nuts. Looks like it was taken through a screen, too.

[Mopacs]

Here's a lightning strike caught w/my dashcam last Monday. That was one treacherous drive home.



^^^ Heading northbound on Lamar, just south of Koenig.

[Syndic]

Don't think I've shown y'all my view from work yet. This is what it looks like from our little chill area.

Seaholm:





NorthShore:



5th and Colorado:

[KevinFromTexas]

I just saw this on a video I was watching.

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[tie_guy]

I took this pic yesterday. This view never gets old. It can't, so much development!

[KevinFromTexas]

^Nice.

The Westin Hotel almost looks like an old building from the 30s here, especially with it paired up with the Avenue Lofts in the lower right, and the old highrises in the background at 7th & Congress. I like the juxtaposition between those and the more modern and bigger highrises on the left side of the photo.


https://www.facebook.com/theAustinot...type=1&theater

[Syndic]

[lzppjb]

^Oh yeah, that one's going on my facebook.

[drummer]

Does anyone know when the new downtown Metro Station is supposed to happen? All the fancy changes that they talked about a while ago...I'm looking at this picture trying to imagine what it would look like from that vantage point.