Charlotte Photo of the Day

[KJHburg]

Sunnier days are ahead for Charlotte I just know it.   Charlotte does indeed look better with blue skies.  Today between rain storms. 

Notice what is rising to left of the Vue tower the Ellis Lennar apartment tower.  

[NCMike1990]

FNB will help fill in the gap between Carillon and Truist Tower.

[704Dimitri]

[PeytonC]

Going back in time with this one from 2012...

 

[KJHburg]

told you I have friends in high places.    from  @geocatchlight on Instagram   Today uptown. 

 

[Ctaylor16]

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Ctaylor16 said:

did you take this shot? I'd love to instagram this? Just Dmd you

Edited May 31, 2020 by Guest

[Zeitgeist_4131]

[turbocraig]

Again, not sure of the most appropriate place to post this, so this will do...  Got my copy of the QC Nerve Coloring Book in the mail.  This caught my eye.  The multi-talents of @Tyree Ricardo.  What can’t he do?

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, turbocraig said:

Again, not sure of the most appropriate place to post this, so this will do...  Got my copy of the QC Nerve Coloring Book in the mail.  This caught my eye.  The multi-talents of @Tyree Ricardo.  What can’t he do?

Thanks!!!!!!!! This was so fun to work on.

[CLTranspo]

[SydneyCarton]

I don't know if we're allowed to link to YouTube on this site, but if not, a guy named J Utah posted an absolutely amazing video of a drive through Uptown from a few days ago.  It's really impressive.

[KJHburg]

30 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I don't know if we're allowed to link to YouTube on this site, but if not, a guy named J Utah posted an absolutely amazing video of a drive through Uptown from a few days ago.  It's really impressive.

You mean this video it is good but 44 minutes long and he catches every traffic light in Charlotte (and boy are our lights long)

 

[SydneyCarton]

That's the one.  It's really impressive.

[CLTranspo]

[Carpe Diem]

that's 4k video is awesome.

[rancenc]

Prime example of why crowds can start "peacefully assembling" at Knight Stadium or PNC Arena

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, rancenc said:

Prime example of why crowds can start "peacefully assembling" at Knight Stadium or PNC Arena

yea but Mr. Trump wanted no masks.

[Muggsy01]

4 hours ago, rancenc said:

Prime example of why crowds can start "peacefully assembling" at Knight Stadium or PNC Arena

Forget the convention, how about people be allowed to open businesses and go back to school?!?! 
 

Totally fine with protesters making the choice that protesting is worth the risk of COVID. But we should all have the right to make those choices regarding risks when it comes to commerce, education, just living life. Not to mention, the lockdowns absolutely have a role in this unrest.

[ertley]

3 hours ago, Muggsy01 said:

Forget the convention, how about people be allowed to open businesses and go back to school?!?! 
 

Totally fine with protesters making the choice that protesting is worth the risk of COVID. But we should all have the right to make those choices regarding risks when it comes to commerce, education, just living life. Not to mention, the lockdowns absolutely have a role in this unrest.

I know this isn't the Coronavirus thread, but I feel there's an important point that needs to be made here, since it strayed to the topic. 

Everyone seems to forget that the primary reason for the lockdowns was not to keep people from getting COVID, per se, and thus make people's decisions for them (i.e. take away their rights to self-determination), but was signally to stop its rapid spread, all at once. Our largely private health care system was not designed nor built to withstand a mass public health event such as a pandemic. The private sector operates--understandably--on a profit margin basis, and our hospitals do not have empty wards or large numbers of beds--and more importantly, high priced technical equipment--waiting around unused most of the time just in case of a once in a lifetime event. Again, understandably, because that would be a huge waste of valuable resources in a field that's supposed to be saving real lives, not theoretical ones.

When you have a "novel" virus, which in real person speak means something no human being has ever encountered before (that we know of), no one has any immunity to it, period, which means if you're exposed, you're gonna get it. If social distancing and lockdowns hadn't been put in place, and everyone had been left to determine how and when they'd conduct themselves*, the rate of transmission would've been exponentially higher than it was, and what we saw in New York would've occurred in Charlotte and every other major city. 

I'm not particularly for or against socialized medicine--I truly don't have a fixed opinion one way or another--but the last few months are the consequence of a (basically) fully privatized health care system of independent components (i.e. hospitals) designed to operate on maximal efficiency, without consideration, mandate or official responsibility for the public health writ large. So when you have a system that's incapable of handling the exigencies of the moment, extraordinary measures have to be taken, like it or not.

*I think many municipalities and states at first *tried* to let people make their own decisions about where they went, and how, but I'm convinced it was the fiasco of St. Patrick's Day weekend that led to the lockdowns. People were given the choice to socially distance, with the hope that most people would choose the rational path, and then come March 15th everyone's screens were inundated with visuals of bars packed and people partying as if nothing was amiss. That, I believe, is what triggered the official responses we've now had to live with. We were at first allowed to chose, and like too often, an unruly segment of the population made it tougher for everyone.  

Edited June 4, 2020 by ertley
added the * point

[Mgelbach]

A couple pictures from my flyover over uptown last night, the canyon effect is definitely real on Tryon!

[Muggsy01]

Charlotte really does have the best skyline in the South. I know many will say Atlanta or Houston are better but ATL is too spread out & Houston’s buildings are too bland. Mostly 80s boxes (though improving). Charlotte really is king, or Queen, rather. 
 

Just imagine when Duke 2 is built. 

Edited June 4, 2020 by Muggsy01

[Guest]

Grabbed his from a promo vid fora an office building, wish it was 4k

[Carpe Diem]

nice shots of uptown, it's very beautiful

[KJHburg]

from my vantage point southend.  Today.  Southend skyline and uptown skyline.    Charlotte Rising in uptown and southend!