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Originally Posted by The ATX
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I don't, it's ugly and puts a lot of pollution in the air and it smells nasty. I'm so thankful that Austin has nothing like that nor would I ever want to see anything like that here.
We also enjoy visiting Port A. We usually go at the end of Summer when it's not as crowded.
I think Corpus has a fairly impressive skyline for a city it's size. Another city with an impressive skyline is Shreveport, Louisiana which only has about 195K although it's metro is closer to 400K. They also have a large oil refinery. It looks creepy at night with all those orange lights on and flames shooting from some of the smoke stacks. It also makes the air smell rancid especially at night. Was visiting my sister and nieces that live there back in May and I was out earlier in the evening with my nieces. Got to my sisters house a bit after midnight, opened the car door and discussing rotten egg smell was just hanging in the air. It was just horrible, it litterally made me want to throw up.
With the increasing fracking and expansion going on south, southeast and now east. I'm starting to notice more nights where the air here is starting to smell like that although not as intense. Our air quality is rapidly declining and people are feeling the effects of it, I know I am. The air quality will continue to deteriorate here in Austin as a result of what's happening in the Eagle Ford Shale and now Bastrop county has been opened up for fracking. Don't forget for most of the year our winds are from the south and southeast meaning all that pollution is being pushed right up the I-35 corridor.
Sorry went off on a tangent there but this is the off topic thread after all lol.