Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/31/2020 at 09:32 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Aaannnddd.....it’s Friday.

Have some Cold War hot iron. Or aluminum. Or titanium. Whatever, it’s a cool picture.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn 07/31/2020 at 09:42

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Golden age of design.

ttyymmnn > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/31/2020 at 09:47

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Two of my favorite a/c from my favorite period of aviation history. 

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > ttyymmnn 07/31/2020 at 09:50

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TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/31/2020 at 09:59

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Good morning. Today is a day of flood cost modeling.

These are the thousands of homes and businesses in the Houston area which flooded during Harvey. Yellow through red = damaged. Purple = destroyed.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/31/2020 at 10:10

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Maybe don’t build on a bayou? That was a pretty epic flood, though. 

facw > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/31/2020 at 10:18

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Me:

Apartment complex lost it s whole first floor.

user314 > ttyymmnn 07/31/2020 at 10:29

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You’re gonna like today’s Flightline then. 

ttyymmnn > user314 07/31/2020 at 10:34

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Looking forward to it!

ttyymmnn > facw 07/31/2020 at 10:47

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West U? I lived north of Rice between Richmond and 59, then out by Bellaire and Beltway 8. I got my masters at Rice in 91. 

facw > ttyymmnn 07/31/2020 at 10:52

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Just south of West U, on the north side of Bray s Bayou. Not a terrible place to live except for the flooding.

ttyymmnn > facw 07/31/2020 at 11:01

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I rather enjoyed living in the Montrose. People said, “Don’t live there. It’s the gay neighborhood.” For my money, that simple fact made it a very vibrant and fun place to be. Plus I was about three minutes from school. 

facw > ttyymmnn 07/31/2020 at 11:29

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“ Gay” neighborhoods often are good lively places to live, even for non-gays, so I don’t doubt it.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/31/2020 at 11:37

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Harvey flooded areas that were well outside the 500 year floodplain. I don’t have a problem with people building within the floodplain as long as their houses are built to withstand a flood. That means either on stilts or designed to float. 

ttyymmnn > facw 07/31/2020 at 12:15

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The Wertheimer Arts Festival was always a blast.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/31/2020 at 21:40

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haven’t they allowed hundreds of new properties on the edge of the 100year and a bunch within? A former coworker moved there, they left the first agent when she showed homes in the neighborhood that flooded in 2016. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 08/01/2020 at 01:57

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There are several political entities in the area and they all have slightly different rules. The County is requiring the finished floor height to be the flood elevation of the highest flood plus two feet. There are also restrictions on reconstruction, but a lot of properties did get rebuilt in the same location without elevating the building.