Showing posts with label new braunfels soil. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 7, 2013

New Braunfels Wurstfest and Trivia

Here are two pics taken near the entrance at Wurstfest.






There is, of course, a lot more to Wurstfest than this.

New Braunfels has a downtown full of antique stores, bars, saloons, boutiques, and other tourist traps. That downtown area is bisected by a rail road:




Most of New Braunfels and the rest of this part of Texas has nothing on which to build a foundation. The soil is mush. It shifts constantly. Here are three pics that illustrate what this can do to a house over time:







You'd be hard pressed to find a right angle. Even concrete slabs crack and shift and sink. Hillsides FLOW.