the oil bust in the late 1980s

"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
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On 2007-04-09, Peter Dohm wrote:
The one that I was familiar with was a case of a a good sized development
that had, for want of a better word, fizzled.

I turned in to one of those when I was visiting Houston, TX. It was
a whole suburban neighborhood of roads, with mature trees all around,
but no houses at all. It was surreal. Houston also had highway ramps
going nowhere (with matching rusted out cranes). I got the impression
that the money dried up suddenly one day and everyone just walked away.

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