Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like very much the last one, great moment and lighting! scondly I like the first one, a brilliant picture Lluis > El 27 juny 2022, a les 12:38, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va > escriure: > > Greetings to all. Between a hurricane that caused a lot of damage on the > coast a few years ago and the 2 or so years of Covid construction around > Austin slowed to a comparative crawl. That slowdown has largely ended even > with dramatically higher interest rates. The first image is part of Austin > Energy's work to strengthen the grid after our winter freeze. This is the > addition of a new high tension line upgrading the MWh available to the > local neighborhood in light of the building permits being pulled: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/upgrading+the+local+grid+before+the+heat+wave.jpg.html > > This next image is of a new blade on a skid steer taking out one of the > neighborhood bungalows: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/changing+blades+on+the+skid+steer.jpg.html > > The local grocery store is being transformed into a multistory food palace, > first they needed to create the new water runoff retention which is a > perimeter series of large vessels to hold water after a storm until the > city is ready to treat it. This image is mostly to demonstrate the > relative soil or lack thereof. My house is two blocks away at the end of > the blackland prairie and I have a measured 4 meters of black gumbo: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/water+retention+in+limestone.jpg.html > > While the older homes near me are pier and beam; the ones built in the > fifties on used poured concrete slabs. Some of the concrete can go 3/4 of > a meter to bring the home out of a flood plain. It takes quite a bit to > remove that much concrete: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/first+the+house+then+the+foundation.jpg.html > > I met some friends for cocktails at a bar; it must be closer to UT than I > thought: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/Must+be+near+UT.jpg.html > > People were very happy to see in person friends that had been hidden away > in their homes: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/Judith+sees+a+friend+in+person+after+Covid.jpg.html > > All the best. > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information