HOUSTON | Development Thread II - Page 658

JoninATX · #**13141** Posted **May 17, 2024, 1:20 AM**

Downtown Houston looks like a war zone!

AviationGuy · #**13142** Posted **May 17, 2024, 4:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by JoninATX

Downtown Houston looks like a war zone!

You mean from this evening's storm? Were you able to see the debris? The news coverage I saw wasn't very thorough, I think possibly because so many streets were blocked off by the police.

JoninATX · #**13143** Posted **May 17, 2024, 5:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by AviationGuy

You mean from this evening's storm? Were you able to see the debris? The news coverage I saw wasn't very thorough, I think possibly because so many streets were blocked off by the police.

I wasn't going to post until I saw the affects of the storm. A lot of glass blown out of buildings, trees knocked over, power lines down... Looked like a hurricane or a bomb hit Houston...🌀

JManc · #**13144** Posted **May 18, 2024, 1:19 AM**

I went downtown this morning with my wife to pick up some things from her office. While she went upstairs, I walked over by the Total Energy and Centerpoint Energy buildings and it looked like a bomb went off. Her own building has about 80 cracked windows but none blew out. It was hurricane level of damage.

bilbao58 · #**13145** Posted **May 18, 2024, 3:51 AM**

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I went downtown this morning with my wife to pick up some things from her office. While she went upstairs, I walked over by the Total Energy and Centerpoint Energy buildings and it looked like a bomb went off. Her own building has about 80 cracked windows but none blew out. It was hurricane level of damage.

What’s amazing to me is hurricanes generally last for hours. That storm yesterday blew threw in minutes yet did all that damage.

AviationGuy · #**13146** Posted **May 18, 2024, 4:23 AM**

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What’s amazing to me is hurricanes generally last for hours. That storm yesterday blew threw in minutes yet did all that damage.

When I took shelter downstairs, it rained hard for about 45 minutes, but the extreme winds didn't last more than 10-15 minutes. The damage looks like that from Hurricane Ike or Hurricane Alicia.

bilbao58 · #**13147** Posted **May 20, 2024, 12:54 PM**

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When I took shelter downstairs, it rained hard for about 45 minutes, but the extreme winds didn't last more than 10-15 minutes. The damage looks like that from Hurricane Ike or Hurricane Alicia.

I hope your house got spared. How close to you was the Cypress area tornado?

AviationGuy · #**13148** Posted **May 21, 2024, 1:59 AM**

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I hope your house got spared. How close to you was the Cypress area tornado?

The media haven't been very clear about where the tornadoes were, but I've determined that one of the tornadoes was at Heritage at Towne Lake, a 55+ neighborhood only a mile from where I live. The neighborhood is across a lake from the Kroger I go to. It would be west of Barker-Cypress, east of Greenhouse, and south of Tuckerton.

The second tornado supposedly occurred in Bridgeland, which is about 4 miles west of me. But I haven't been able to determine where it occurred.

The high voltage towers that fell were at Fry and West, about 4 miles from me. North of 290, where the neighborhoods are in pine forests, I understand that there was a lot of tree damage and some structure damage. My sister lives north of 290, and she said her area was "trashed" from the storm, much worse than where I live. So while I think my area had maybe 80 mph winds, I'm certain it was far worse in other areas, especially where the ancient trees in the inner city fell on so many structures and vehicles. I'm still hearing that it would take 100 mph winds to do the damage that occurred downtown.

TowerSpotter · #**13149** Posted **Jun 19, 2024, 9:54 AM**

Made more mock ups with most of Houston's development.

https://skyscraperplus.com/articles-...0qUuoyqHrdVDHB

A link to the development map as well. Still currently in the process of adding more to the map:

https://skyscraperplus.com/skyscrape...evmap-4v218beg

The ATX · #**13150** Posted **Jun 19, 2024, 9:47 PM**

That's an excellent reference!

TowerSpotter · #**13151** Posted **Jun 20, 2024, 12:24 AM**

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That's an excellent reference!

Only thing missing is TMC, The Woodlands, and Uptown.

The Best Forumer · #**13152** Posted **Jun 20, 2024, 9:57 PM**

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Only thing missing is TMC, The Woodlands, and Uptown.

Nice work!

TowerSpotter · #**13153** Posted **Jun 21, 2024, 3:41 AM**

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Nice work!

Thank You! May do one for Austin next, after I finish up with the rest of Houston.

currysteph · #**13154** Posted **Jun 21, 2024, 10:36 AM**

thats really cool....thanks

TowerSpotter · #**13155** Posted **Jun 21, 2024, 11:55 PM**

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thats really cool....thanks

Thanks!

Double L · #**13156** Posted **Jun 22, 2024, 12:01 AM**

Great job making those development diagrams. More Houstonians should get an opportunity to see them. Post them as often as possible!

TowerSpotter · #**13157** Posted **Jun 22, 2024, 5:08 AM**

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Great job making those development diagrams. More Houstonians should get an opportunity to see them. Post them as often as possible!

Will be keeping it alive and sometime in the near future I plan on make it explorable by anyone!

Bike&Sky · #**13158** Posted **Jun 23, 2024, 3:22 AM**

Beautiful! excellent job.

Bike&Sky · #**13159** Posted **Jun 23, 2024, 3:26 AM**

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Will be keeping it alive and sometime in the near future I plan on make it explorable by anyone!

Like a layer on top of Google maps? then we can hang picts on the 3D renderings.

TowerSpotter · #**13160** Posted **Jun 23, 2024, 9:34 PM**

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Beautiful! excellent job.

Thank You!