EXCLUSIVE: For years, local officials in Houston have been studying whether building giant tunnels under the city could ease the area's flooding woes. Now, Elon Musk wants a piece of the project. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege
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houston... we have a problem...
aug 28, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Keep him away
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Works for Japan youtu.be/Rp2l6nFIsZA?...
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In my latest investigation with @propublica.org, the @houstonchronicle.com's @chengyilun.bsky.social and I teamed up to show how The Boring Company has tried to woo politicians behind closed doors for months to hand it a slice of the job — and millions in taxpayer money. www.kut.org/politics/202...
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We got internal emails, texts and memos that show Boring wants to charge $760M to build one piece of Houston's flood mitigation tunnel system — with 15% of up front out of the state and county budgets. And Musk had a pitch man: Congressman Wesley Hunt. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege
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Hunt and Boring pitched smaller, potentially narrower tunnels than the county had previously focused on for the project. Instead of one, 30-40 ft tunnels, Boring wanted to build two 12-foot tunnels. At least one flood experts questioned whether that plan would work. www.kut.org/politics/202...
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All of these pitches happened behind the scenes. There have not been any public hearings about Boring and Musk getting the job — or the taxpayer money. All of this comes as The Boring Company is facing transparency criticism for his Nashville tunnel project. wpln.org/post/tenness... #txlege
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Hunt and reps for Musk and his companies did not answer our questions. State and local officials insisted they have NOT allocated any public money to Borinng. If it does get the job, it appears it would be the first water project for the company. Read the story here www.kut.org/politics/202...
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This story was co-published with these outlets as part of an initiative to report on how power is wielded in Texas. @propublica: www.propublica.org/article/elon... @HoustonChron: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi... @TexasTribune: www.texastribune.org/2025/08/28/e...
aug 28, 2025, 2:19 pm • 5 1 • view
www.propublica.org/article/elon... Maybe Houston should wait and see whether the Vegas thing works out or if it "craters."
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As an Engineer that deals with this stuff, I absolutely support the Flood Control District Proposal. Musk's proposal is going to hit utilities, may not be fully gravity fed, and definitely will not have the capacity required. Storm can drop a huge amount of water in a relatively short time period.
aug 28, 2025, 7:58 pm • 2 0 • view
100% agree. Why do people think Musk is an engineering genius? He’s a businessman who convinces politicians to use his companies’ services, but there’s often aspects that are not well thought through, such as pipe depth, diameter, etc. Boring isn’t capable to address comprehensive needs.
aug 29, 2025, 3:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Hey @neorsd.org this and the rest of Lauren's thread is right up your alley, or rather underground tunnel.
aug 28, 2025, 7:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Good question for a high school math and physics class with crossover to US gov class. How much more water can flow per second in a 40 ft diam tunnel vs two 12 ft tunnels? Then ask why Boring Co. tries to their one size tunnel for various infrastructure projects? Elon Musk is not an engineer, kids.
aug 29, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Boring will take the money and disappear into the wind, or do some prelim digging that peters out. At this point it's naked money laundering.
aug 28, 2025, 6:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Have they heard if sinkholes?
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Then he fucks up and there are zero regulations and the tunnels collapse and your buildings come down with it
aug 29, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
So he's trying to flood Houston. Got it!
aug 28, 2025, 2:05 pm • 6 0 • view
Peter Thiel is an investor in Elon Musk's The Boring Company through his venture capital firm, Founders Fund. I'm sure they are cooking up a scheme that, if you don't want your house to flood, you'll have to buy a monthly subscription (which will become a line item in your household budget).
aug 28, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view
The year: 2147. The event: Celebration of The Boring Company's 100th foot of Houston tunnel.
aug 28, 2025, 5:13 pm • 5 0 • view
Seems like the plot of a disaster movie.
aug 28, 2025, 2:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Everything Elon Touches Dies EETD?
aug 28, 2025, 6:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Gawd Houston, pls don’t give this POS any more taxpayer money.
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