"And I hope you're wearing the right kind of shoes," he says, alluding to the vaunted downtown theater's flooded lower level, where more than ten feet of water once pooled during Hurricane Harvey's catastrophic downpour that caused severe damage on the city's Theater District.
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What a horrible shame. Theatres get the money for renovations so infrequently that I can imagine how excited the admin of the Alley Theatre must have felt as they began their renovations. Older theatre usually need them the most in order to make adjustments to currently technology as well as make room for the addition of current technology. To have all of that work destroyed must be utterly crushing for not only the employees of the theatre but also patrons and theatre lovers from across the country. The article does a fine job in detailing the scene: “The scene is difficult to convey with words. Walls have fallen down in chunks. The ceilings are all peeling downward, their shapes distorted like ice cream melting in summer. Some rooms have doors blocked by debris that can't be entered. Pianos and tables and large machinery are turned upside down, some stuck in strange, gravity-defying positions. Flotsam everywhere floats on the ground.” The honest descriptions make this destruction of the Alley Theater even more upsetting.
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