For a brief period, Austin’s burgeoning downtown looked like a scene from the sci-fi classic, “War of the Worlds.”Towering, alien-like “tentacles” reached out of the darkness into a massive crater dug from the earth, moving purposefully back and forth in the earthen hole. Alongside the crater were two rows of trucks, their gigantic mixers tumbling concrete as they waited their turn at the tentacles. Of course, this was no alien invasion; it was the site of the largest mat pour in the Texas capital’s history.
