[Leica] Monday Misc.

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

The last two, for sure!

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
photo at frozenlight.eu

http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
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YNWA




> On 27 Jun 2022, at 12:38, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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