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Cincydawg · « **Reply #1806 on:** July 26, 2019, 04:38:58 PM »

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2019/7/23/20706344/atlanta-gentrification-bankhead-quarry-yards

The city is changing rapidly. The racial makeup is changing from mostly black to majority black soon to be plurality black.

It's interesting for me to watch and observe, having lived in the 'burbs so long ago. I do worry about the amount of apartment construction going on around me. A lot of newer apartment buildings are not nearly full.

Anonymous Coward · « **Reply #1807 on:** July 26, 2019, 04:48:19 PM »

Quote from: bwarbiany on July 26, 2019, 04:17:00 PM

Here's around the corner from me: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/26792-Calle-Alcala-Mission-Viejo-CA-92691/25627839_zpid/

From the drone photos: What is that neighborhood-sized black hole in the ground? Maybe it's an unfilled man-made lake?

betarhoalphadelta · « **Reply #1808 on:** July 26, 2019, 05:08:19 PM »

Quote from: Anonymous Coward on July 26, 2019, 04:48:19 PM

From the drone photos: What is that neighborhood-sized black hole in the ground? Maybe it's an unfilled man-made lake?

El Toro Reservoir.

It actually is filled. I just has a floating liner over the top of it.

https://etwd.com/about-us/history-of-el-toro-water-district/

Anonymous Coward · « **Reply #1809 on:** July 26, 2019, 05:43:23 PM »

Is California still experimenting with those "shade balls?"

I think I read that there's some reservoir, maybe near L.A., that's so massive, a liner is ~10x more costly than filling the surface with floating black balls. I also recall something about natural bromine in the reservoir and concerns that it might react in the presence of sunlight and chlorine additives to form bromate, which is unhealthy. I'm not sure if I remembered that correctly, but if I am close it'd be cool if a resident chemist (@Cincydawg?) could detail the mechanism.

betarhoalphadelta · « **Reply #1810 on:** July 26, 2019, 05:45:52 PM »

Quote from: Anonymous Coward on July 26, 2019, 05:43:23 PM

Is California still experimenting with those "shade balls?"

I think I read that there's some reservoir, maybe near L.A., that's so massive, a liner is ~10x more costly than filling the surface with floating black balls. I also recall something about natural bromine in the reservoir and concerns that it might react in the presence of sunlight and chlorine additives to form bromate, which is unhealthy. I'm not sure if I remembered that correctly, but if I am close it'd be cool if a resident chemist (@Cincydawg?) could detail the mechanism.

Interesting... I had never heard of shade balls until now.

But it appears the experiment is mostly over, on all but one reservoir they'll be replaced by floating covers:

https://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-shade-balls-water-quality.html

Anonymous Coward · « **Reply #1811 on:** July 26, 2019, 05:46:40 PM »

Quote from: Cincydawg on July 26, 2019, 04:26:27 PM

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2019/7/5/20683243/grant-park-atlanta-new-home-for-sale-house

Asking $635K 2200 sq ft. Close into to downtown.

I know it's not big, but that's a pleasing house to look at. A boxy house that is taller than it is wide really does it for me. As for the cost, it is no doubt a lot for the square footage, but I'd expect the same if it were in a Big Ten college town.

Anonymous Coward · « **Reply #1812 on:** July 26, 2019, 05:53:43 PM »

Quote from: bwarbiany on July 26, 2019, 05:45:52 PM

Interesting... I had never heard of shade balls until now.

But it appears the experiment is mostly over, on all but one reservoir they'll be replaced by floating covers:

https://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-shade-balls-water-quality.html

I wonder if that's the reservoir with the natural bromine source. I think, aside from the liner cost, that was the main engineering challenge to hurdle.

Anyway, there's this physics/chemistry/philosophy/cool-stuff vlog I follow on Youtube (Veritasium). It had a whole episode devoted to this. I remember thinking it was oddly beautiful how the balls naturally aligned in rafts of 2-dimensional crystals in the undisturbed water.

utee94 · « **Reply #1813 on:** July 27, 2019, 08:48:48 PM »

Quote from: bwarbiany on July 26, 2019, 02:51:45 PM

Yeah, but probably buys 5bdr and 3500 sq ft, not 3bdr and 1500, in Round Rock.

Good heavens no, not Round Rock. That soulless, treeless piece of crap suburb.

I live in Cedar Park of course.

But the figures are about right.

In Austin proper, these days, $600K buys you a 1200 sqft 3-2 teardown, which you'll then put another $500K into to build an actual house. Kinda like California.

MichiFan87 · « **Reply #1814 on:** July 27, 2019, 09:50:13 PM »

I had never seen / heard of those shade balls, but reservoirs are an increasingly great opportunity for solar, so I'm surprised they haven't at least considered that, especially in California.

DC's housing market has actually seemed to slow down, even with the pending arrival of Amazon (though I don't follow the Arlington / Alexandria market as much). I'm just waiting to see what happens once the stock market inevitably crashes....

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1815 on:** July 29, 2019, 10:25:54 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG3aeeBUp9c

The guys are good, SEC Shorts Barbershop Quartet Smack Talk.

CWSooner · « **Reply #1816 on:** July 29, 2019, 11:52:57 AM »

That's good, CD!

Cincydawg · « **Reply #1817 on:** July 29, 2019, 11:57:30 AM »

If they put chlorine in the water than contains bromide, it could easily oxidize the bromide up to bromate.

Chlorine - Cl2 - acts like it is CL- and CL+, and the Cl+ part wants electrons from somewhere. This is simplistic of course. You have HOCl in there too.

FearlessF · « **Reply #1818 on:** July 29, 2019, 12:08:53 PM »

for the Purdue fans and others that are fans of Joe Tiller...............

Steven M. Sipple: Moos' life-size cutout of Tiller speaks to AD's regard for coaching profession

https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/sipple/steven-m-sipple-moos-life-size-cutout-of-tiller-speaks/article_a9ae7afe-c9af-54b4-9c5b-48a6c07b09bd.amp.html

betarhoalphadelta · « **Reply #1819 on:** July 30, 2019, 01:10:20 PM »

Got rear-ended in the Flex on Saturday. How does a bumper and a trailer hitch cost $2800 to repair?

Now need to figure out whether the guy who hit me wants to pay out of pocket or via a claim. I have to think he'll choose insurance since he'd need to fix his own car too.

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