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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

ARKANSAS: The Marked Tree Siphons installation, dating to 1939, is said to be the only engineering structure of its kind in the United States. Built at a cost of $215,000, the three steel tubes integral to the design were among the largest in the world, with diameters of nine feet and lengths of 228 feet. As described by the Arkansas encyclopedia, "Their operation was deceptively simple. First, a vacuum pump primed each siphon. Once the siphon was primed, the vacuum pump was turned off, and the flow was self-sustaining. An air valve regulated the rate of flow."
Once activated, the siphons can run indefinitely, powered only by gravity. Eight decades later, the pumping process still functions properly after an overhaul in the 1990s.

Interesting, I'm going to have to look that first one up to see what the purpose is.
I read an article about that camaro recently. https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/200000-mile-1969-camaro-is-proof-your-car-is-bored/

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Our house has a huge master bedroom closet, but it is not even remotely like this.

https://www.chron.com/z-archived-homes/article/Woodlands-woman-s-three-story-closet-is-her-5628948.php

If you were ever wondering how to throw the perfect party in a closet, this Houston area woman knows the secret: all it takes is a wonderful caterer, lots of champagne, a DJ ... oh, and a gigantic, three story, 3,000 square foot "she cave."

Theresa Roemer's closet, recently added to her Woodlands home at a cost of about $500,000, is nothing short of amazing: a spiral staircase leads up through boutique style shelving showing off handbag upon handbag, jewels, perfume and shoes (OMG, shoes like nothing you have seen!).

The former Miss Texas United America's closet was featured in a new blog post by department store Neiman Marcus ... which theoretically could consider opening the giant closet as a new Woodlands retail department.

"It started years ago when I had a closet party and all the girls came over and they said, 'I just wish it was bigger,'" That's when the glamorous fundraiser realized size was key after all, "Since then it's just been getting bigger and bigger and bigger, it's like a 'she cave'." Roemer said.

Seems bizarre and silly to me, but if you've got the cash and that's what you want...

She got her 15 mins of fame, but I think it backfired.
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/woodlands/crime-courts/article/Self-acclaimed-Woodlands-closet-burglar-sends-5691765.php
Her house/closet was burgled after all of the hoopla.



https://people.com/crime/theresa-roemer-robbed-of-1-million-from-three-story-closet/

When Theresa Roemer returned home after a dinner out with her husband on Aug. 1, she noticed that something was very wrong. There was shattered glass on the floor of her bedroom – someone had broken into her Houston-area house and pilfered items from her closet.

But Roemer’s closet isn’t like yours. It’s a three-story, 3,000-square-foot space complete with a champagne bar. And the items missing included much of Roemer’s high-end jewelry and three large Birkin bags worth $60,000 each. The complete haul: more than $1 million.

Roemer checked the recording from her home’s security camera: The burglar entered the home through a bathroom window. Wearing a light-colored hooded jumpsuit and a baseball cap, he – or she – spent nine minutes picking through her jewelry, stuffing the items into the bags. The theft happened less than two weeks after the closet had been featured on ABC’s Good Morning America.

“It’s terrifying,” Roemer tells PEOPLE. “Someone came into my house and violated my space. I don’t feel safe anymore.”

Both Roemer and police believe that there was more than one thief. Exterior surveillance cameras caught at least two shadowy figures outside while the main burglar was inside the house.
Sentimental Items Missing

The thieves got away with some very expensive jewelry, including diamonds, watches and even a one-of-a-kind 136-carat emerald. But Roemer says that’s not what’s important to her.

“Obviously, I’m not happy that they’re gone,” she says, “but those things can be replaced. I’m most upset about the items that can never be replaced. They’re gone forever.”

In addition to the pricey jewelry, the thieves got away with some sentimental items, including bracelets that Roemer received from her deceased mother-in-law. “They’re not even worth a lot of money,” she says. “But they’re worth so much more to me.”

Another devastating loss: a silver locket containing a lock of hair from Roemer’s son, Michael, who died in a Wyoming car crash in 2006. “My son was a wonderful, wonderful boy,” says Roemer, her voice catching. “That lock of hair was all I had from him. I don’t care about anything else, but I want that back. I need that back. It’s what I have from my son. It’s ironic; the only things that aren’t worth money on the market are the things that I want back the most.”

A person claiming to be the burglar who swiped nearly a million dollars of high end jewelry from a now infamous closet in an opulent home in the Woodlands has sent several of the items to a Houston newspaper.

According to a story published online this afternoon by the Houston Press, a person called the alt-weekly earlier this week claiming to be the burglar and that he or she had items to prove it. The caller spoke through a voice modulator, according to the story, so it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or woman.

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Koenigsegg and a Singer
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