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Wondering what this is and if its safe for me to pull out.

Conceived in the late 60s into the 80s, Dallas built an elaborate 3-mile underground tunnel network that connected most of the key buildings in the downtown area at the time. The result was a sprawling underground mall that kept pedestrians air conditioned as they transversed through town.

In the early 90s, the coordinated project was mostly abandoned as the lack of street level traffic was making it difficult to sustain more visible businesses. Pressure to change the perception of a “dead” zone outside on the streets left downtown with a bespoke series of tunnels often owned independently by the buildings sitting above them.

As the years have gone on, the network has been disconnected by closures, decay and abandonment. It’s like a bizarre secret. Even long-time Dallas residents don't really know it exists.

But if you live or work in a Dallas building with a basement food court, chances are you can find a doorway to the system. If you do, you can explore for hours.

There have been talks of repurposing sections as part of Dallas' much delayed D2 subway project, but for now, it just sits. There are sections that still have power and upkeep by various groups but it’s almost entirely deserted and you’ll see signs for businesses that haven’t existed in decades.

Some sections (photographed publicly here - as far as I can tell - for the first time in nearly 20 years) have been sealed off…and have apparently flooded.

How to remediate???

Liquidambar styraciflua, recently cut it in the summer, I know some diseases or bacteria cause variegation but not sure if I could have caused it, could be the heat or some other factor

Loved seeing weathered sycamores and pines and shit, willows and saltbrush too but I didn’t get any pics. These were on basically a lake-island/peninsula thingy revealed by low tide I guess, or drought, where most of what was up to I’d assume that leggy sycamore would have normally been water. I found some orange stringy parasitic plant too!

This was recommended under her music, there’s no way this is official, the original page is ai graphics, the voice sounds a bit off, sounds like realistic Ai or a vocal mod. Also it looks nothing like her

Not sure if I should mark it as nsfw or not, saw this turtle with my bf the other day, a group of ppl walked past us as we were staring at it and they were like “I think there’s smth wrong with that turtle” and I was the only one who was like “huh looks like smth to do with birth or whatever to me” and then we saw mama drop an egg and EVERYONE FREAKED OUT

I know nothing of turtles, I just assumed cause, why else would a turtle be ass first into some mud in the evening. Everybody got their jokes out of the way and then left her alone.

My main question is how she got the clay that wet and how she dug a hole wider at the bottom than it was at the top?? Did she pee? Did she carry the water?? Was it a coincidence? Am I overthinking it?

Initially thought catalpa or wisteria from afar, found near water/creek in South Carolina

1-8 were skinny, brown, and flowering, 9-11 were thicker, green and were in a larger thicker group