Yeah, a number of peaks in the Ouachitas (SE Oklahoma) are 2500+ and COVERED with trees. Mt. Scott down by Lawton is around 2600, I think. But the point is still a good one; the tree is dang high up there. No question the highest treetop within an hour's drive.
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Is there still a chance the tower will be 850ft. or are we sure it is 844ft. and no more than that?
it's 850
also, I went to the 47th floor of that building and they told me we were at the highest point in Oklahoma.
Tower is looking great. Can't wait to see the cranes come down so we can see it by itself!
Maybe they'll treat Thunder to a surprise and do it like this:
I took this from the top of the Gaylord Stadium parking garage at OU, looking north toward downtown Oklahoma City.
Does anyone notice that Devon is finishing at such a rapid pace than the new World Trade Center (minus one)?
One World Trade Center is more than double the height of our tower. Of course it's going to take longer.
It is also being built in OKC and not NYC, building anything in NYC takes longer and costs much more than building most anywhere else. There is just so much bureaucratic red tape and union challenges to deal with no matter how big or small the project is. Both the city gov't and unions seem to revel in creating new and interesting challenges.
Also,
1. People died at the wtc site so their was an abundance of caution when they were building the foundation to make sure any remains were recovered.
2. 1 wtc partially sits on top of a subway so that took some time to build around.
3. 1 wtc is built with a lot of reinforcements to remain safe from any possible terrorist attacks(concrete and steel podium, reinforced concrete core, etc.)
4. A lot of coordination has to be done at the wtc site with several construction projects happening at once and all of them are interconnected somehow.
5. They started building at the bottom of the "bathtub" which is like four or five stories below street level.
I'm sure many of them are union but I doubt that every single trade on site is union, plus the OKC unions don't seem to try to throw up road blocks for no apparent reason every single chance they can like what I have found on some projects with NYC trade unions. They have it down to an art form. That doesn't include all the NYC city BS that makes the OKC permit people look downright complicit with the contractors.
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