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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

I was flying into Chicago one morning and the tall buildings were poking out above the clouds. I rented a car and drove to a business meeting down town in the rain. I wondered about the folk who went to work in the rain only to get to their office on an upper floor and find it was a nice sunny day.

That would be really cool to work that high. The building that I work in is the tallest in Texas and was the tallest west of the Mississippi, 75 stories. I've been to the observation deck on the 60th floor. I work on the 16th floor, so I'm not terribly likely to see above the clouds from my desk.

The Newby–McMahon Building, commonly referred to as the World's littlest skyscraper, is located at 511 7th Street[4] (on the corner of Seventh and La Salle streets) in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas.[5] It is a late Neoclassical style red brick and cast stone structure. It stands 40 ft (12 m) tall, and its exterior dimensions are 18 ft (5.5 m) deep and 10 ft (3.0 m) wide.[2] Its interior dimensions are approximately 12 ft (3.7 m) by 9 ft (2.7 m), or approximately 108 sq ft (10.0 m2). Steep, narrow, internal stairways leading to the upper floors occupy roughly 25% of the interior area.[3]

This is one of my favorite buildings in Houston. It was "Bank of America Center", but now it's "TC Energy Center". The entire outside of the building is what looks to me like red granite, including the sidewalk surrounding it.



In 2001 when Tropical Storm Allison hit causing a lot of flooding, the building announced that anyone working late should move their cars up to higher levels of the parking garage in case of flooding. Some woman didn't hear the announcement or didn't pay attention. He car was on the 3rd sub-level. When she was ready to leave, she jumped into an elevator and pushed the button to go to her car. The elevator was submerged into the flooded garage and she drowned.

I guess that might be better than this other Houston area elevator accident which is truly the thing of nightmares and/or horror flicks for at least 2 people.

HOUSTON — A surgical resident was killed when an elevator malfunctioned and decapitated him. Hitoshi Nikaidoh, 35, was stepping into a second-floor elevator at Christus St. Joseph Hospital on Saturday when the doors suddenly closed, pinning his shoulders. His head was severed when the elevator moved upward. A hospital employee witnessed the accident and spent about 20 minutes trapped inside the elevator before firefighters rescued her. She was treated for shock in the hospital’s emergency room.