New Braunfels, Texas Downtown 2018

We continue.

Some remodeling is going on, in anticipation of a large project downtown that most people are calling stupid. 

I don't live there, so I guess I have no say in the matter.

Some things do not change.

Some things SHOULD not change.

Now we make a drastic change, and visit an old graveyard.  We will visit TWO. I will have something amazing to report...

So peaceful. Something amazing is coming up... and I have photographic evidence, and my own experience to relate.

Roaming New Braunfels, Texas 2018

We will be looking at old stuff, of which there is still a lot left. This city tries to preserve its history, unlike some. Preservation is encouraged.

I really like porches like these.

The place above has a porch that looks out onto the railroad that cuts through the heart of town. Trains roar by not much more than 100 feet away from this porch!

 The tracks!

 Train stuff in the heart of town!

I believe these things are for display purposes only.

This is a great place for railroad buffs.

Train time. Train kept a-rollin', all night long.

Down along the railroad track. Click Clack.

Next time, I will finish downtown, and then we move in a very different direction.

New Braunfels, Texas 2018

We are still in Landa Park.

Ahhh! The flowing springs, the lush vegetation! It still has not rained here in Lubbock, and nothing is on the horizon. Dry. Dry. Dry.

But not even South Texas is getting the rainfall it should. By their standards, they are in a drought as well. They get a few inches of rain a month and call it a drought. We get a few inches of rain a year and flop down on our knees and thank God for it. Go figure.

And now, I examine The House That Fell Over! This is the same place I photographed several years ago, and it had a bad tilt developing as the supporting beams settled into the mushy soil, and I pointed out then that New Braunfels really had nothing to serve as a proper foundation. Here is the end result:

 It tilted to the right until it finally fell over, with the supporting structure collapsing beneath it!

 The house crushed the car in the driveway! Luckily, when it collapsed, there were no injuries.

 I do not understand why the people who lived here failed to correct their obvious foundation problem. Lazy? Stupid? I have no idea. This could have been prevented.

This house was built when building codes were lax, anyway. Maybe there were no codes in those days. New Braunfels soil did not help. 

This must have made a huge racket. If anybody was home, they might well have been terrified.
Next time, I'll have some pics of typical older homes in New Braunfels, that have not collapsed. Yet.