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eksda
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 Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 12:06 pm Post subject: piers |
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| any news updates on bob hall pier being rebuilt. i really miss it . |
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Donnie
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: piers |
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| eksda wrote: | | any news updates on bob hall pier being rebuilt. i really miss it . |
I have heard it will be right after hell freezes over, or the month after.
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CopanoCruisin
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I really think Donnie is pretty close! A long beauracratic process jumping through hoops a waiting on government funding. Just saying.......cC |
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Rxfire
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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Well, if the current FEMA is not going to pay, see if the next administration has pity on Corpus Christi, and has FEMA fund it (don't show them this web site).
If not, maybe it is time to hire some "south of the border" engineers to declare that it is fine as it is. Most places in the world would say it is not in need of total reconstruction.
It looks fine to me, and I slept in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
P.S. Does the City or County have insurance on the piers?
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Johninaustin
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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I'm in the betting pool for spring of 2027.  |
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bd0202
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| Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 10:25 am Post subject: |
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| Rxfire wrote: | | Does the City or County have insurance on the piers? |
Judging that they had to cast ballots for not one, but two, bonds to "fix" Cole & Dimmit piers, and nearly no progress has been made yet (other than a 'new design' for Cole that looks more like it caters to tourists than fishermen & a huge fence around Dimmit's entire park - I guess to keep out the vagrants [last time I was there we fished it without lighting and not 1 but 2 vagrants were using the picnic tables as beds LOL]), I'm betting not. 
(Knowing our local morons, they probably assumed FEMA meant 'insurance'. And to go further than that, I voted for neither of the candidates in the mayoral runoff election, and I plan to vote BABA Karen out next time she's up. But, I'm only one person. Didn't mean to get political but anyone would be foolish to think fixing BHP or other attractions around here isn't.)
On a side note, however, I have seen from a few analytical engineers some progressive possibilities for 'future' BHP. They are looking at piers in Florida for the most inspiration - some of which stand 15-20' off the average high tidal surface. Most curiously, they mostly have an octagonal head rather than a T-head. Fishermen in Florida seem to enjoy that design (and Florida seems to think that design survives hurricanes better). But I've also seen some opposing designs, one which included something similar to "BHP #2" with 2-3 'T-Heads'. It will be interesting (but ultimately I'm afraid cheap and boring) to see what the current administration selects.
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bd0202
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| Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 10:26 am Post subject: |
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| Johninaustin wrote: | | I'm in the betting pool for spring of 2027. |
Tentatively with you, assuming no more hurricanes damage the "new progress" as they go...  
Speaking of piers, went by Oso the other day and I see that Hyena Hanna has cleared the remains of the carcass that Lion Harvey left behind as scraps. Anybody heard if they plan to rebuild/sell? The restaurant looked like it'd been shut for a while, too. Oso is another pier that sticks out in the memories around here. I wish if the elderly fella with the German wife can't rebuild it, someone buy it off them and return it to its former glory. Private piers don't have to go through nearly the red tape public piers do as long as the funds are there. I recall a thread after Harvey saying they didn't plan to rebuild; just keep running the restaurant and allowing people to fish the 30-or-so yards left of the pier. Obviously, Hanna changed that. Anyone in DC with them or at least know their plans?
IDEA! Anyone up for a fractional ownership enterprise? We can go in for a business loan and fix Oso and the restaurant, and then donate funds to fixing BHP when we start turning a profit. And we'll also get insurance. (LMAO)
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Redfishman72
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Being a mech and structual eng. I could chime in on this but the subject is a not gonna go there for me.
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