The $31BN Seawall to Save The Texas Coast

This is how you build a flood defence Texas-style.
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[@makechange5452]

If you are from the region, you know all about the storm of 1900. It is the reason there is a sea wall. The island was completely under water. The storm hit at night. The survivors said you could hear the cry of people grow louder and then fade away as they were washed out into the gulf. Something like 10,000 people died. The story's that stuck with me was of the orphan's home and of people using hatchets to try broke though the celling to get to the second floor of their homes. Because they were trapped inside with the rising water. One can only imagine being in compete darkness with a hurricane that drop the barometric pressure lower than it has even been seen. A storm of raging hearing the cries of people as they are dying all around you. While you yourself are fighting to survive. Only to make it through the night to see total devastation as far as you can see. Then to have bodies washing up on shore for weeks.

[@thespywaffles]

Dang

[@Eli-El-Toro]

You forgot the shingles that were torn from rooftops and could slice straight through a human

[@frankmacleod2565]

Maybe that's not the best place to live

[@juliodiaz7151]

Shit bro straight out of a horror story

[@livsamech8450]

Totally agree, we Texans know about the horrible hurricane of 1900, heard it back when I was a kid and visiting Galveston.

[@AllAmericanGuyExpert]

I _died_ when he said Army _Corpse_ of Engineers

[@StatusFX3]

Hey man, dead engineers need work too.

[@markarca6360]

*Corps

[@JayYoung-ro3vu]

Yes. English accent:successful. Mispronunciation of American English: unsuccessful.

[@fatcat2025]

Good to hear the Dutch are an inspiration. They've been doing this kind of thing for a long time and have been incredibly successful

[@alileevil]

Too bad all they do now is ride bicycles and build new bicycle paths.

[@JesseKonijnenberg]

@@alileevil Yeah and that's a good thing, car dependency sucks.

[@alileevil]

@@JesseKonijnenberg Tell me what have the Dutch recently done? You are relying on your past glory, back when the Dutch were explorers and builders. Now they are a bunch of tree huggers with no real contribution except being a financial center for multimillion dollar corporations. Oh how far the Dutch have fallen.

[@scb2scb2]

@@alileevil About 20B will be spend on the updates of the delta plan over the next 10 years. Thats the design they copied here (and good on them) thats spending and building not just planning its a continues process. The good news is that we still seem to have money left to also make good roads for cars and bicycle paths.

[@redsampler2017]

@@alileevil funny🤣, although when i look at my window i can see them digging out drainage canals for a new housing district that is being build at the same time.(around 300 meters away from the big river that,s defended by that white behemoth.) and yes new bicycle paths leading to that new district as well of course..🤭 you can,t make war nor peace with water you can only hope for as many stalemates as possible.🏙⛈🌊

[@christinabishop2533]

My mother's side of the family lived in Galveston when the 1900 storm hit. The family home was closer to the bay side of the island so was not destroyed by the storm surge due to the debris stopping the flow from coming closer. The house is still there, though it is no longer owned by the family. A lot of people don't realize that the seawall is more than double the visual height that can be seen today.

[@deionford9215]

When they said “Texas is defending its coast line in the only way it knows how” I thought they were going to say “by building a wall” 😂😂

[@joespanojr]

We need a wall the higher the longer the better

[@macaron3141592653]

they pretty much are

[@skinnie2838]

0:25 They are not doing this because of 'climate change' you absolute muppet. Texas has had horrific hurricanes since the early 1800's at least. They are hoping to prevent what they know has been an issue for CENTURIES. Gotta love people who dont even live in my state pretending like they know what they are talking about.

[@macaron3141592653]

@@skinnie2838 they kind of are. These storms have gotten more severe and frequent, and will continue to get worse due to climate change. Whenever any city builds dams and levees to prepare, they are doing so to prevent flooding not just from higher sea levels but mostly more severe storms and flooding.

[@skinnie2838]

@@macaron3141592653 Haha, another lemming who bought into the propaganda. I have lived right next to the area mentioned in this video and the storms have always been like this. For at least half a century. And the records from this area show the same thing for the past few centuries. Take your propaganda elsewhere dumbo.

[@bishwatntl]

Galveston has a long history of being hit by hurricanes. I remember visiting in the summer of 1984 and seeing a whole district near the beach where houses had been lifted off their stilts and destroyed the previous summer. In some areas, there were just the concrete pads where houses had been; in others, some of the stilts were left. A stark reminder of what had happened.

[@patrickobrienboling2837]

Right a long history you say but the narrator said recent climate change. However hurricanes have been cyclical ever since Sub Sahara Africa became a desert because of science but narrator said climate change. I do not doubt climate change but things are more complex and a thing called HISTORY. We will also if it actually gets built.

[@aldinklaiqi7808]

@@patrickobrienboling2837 he litteraly said ".. a threat that is becoming more severe due to climate change.."

[@patrickobrienboling2837]

@@aldinklaiqi7808 fair point.

[@jonny-b4954]

Galveston oh Galveston! Good song. City was wiped out in early 20th century

[@franciscodanconia4324]

@@GEEZYEA777sinking land is empirically proveable. Man made climate change is not. Computer models are not proof. They’re just models. The two biggest hurricanes to ever hit Texas occurred 122 years ago and 138 years ago. Those are proveable facts.

[@jonathanvandagriff7515]

Never heard of Galveston? That part took me away. Is Galveston an unheard of city?!?! Thats wild to me, so much history.

[@billbelk7250]

Yeah, someone just told everyone how stupid he is

[@BeyondSustainableLiving]

IKR!😂

[@Jayremy89]

I've always wondered about our ability to extend coasts and barriers by just going inland and dumping dirt off the coast. Especially with places like CA, though we have no serious storm issues and hurricanes as a reliable threat, we do have coastal erosion and really step elevation from the coast, it would be easy to "take some off the top" and relocate that. Maybe develop something like a "mud pipeline". from higher elevation areas. We could also easily do water pipelines from the coast and desalination plants and run that into higher deserts to solve almost every case of drought issues and increase real estate value of a mostly value-less desert.

[@DanAndHoe]

Desalination takes a lot of effort, but might be doable. I know in the Netherlands along the coast are many things to help the beaches with coastal erosion. That includes structures in the water, but also planting beach grass and creating/protecting dunes. There’s also ships that suck sand from deeper in the sea onto beaches/closer to beaches. Those dunes also function as storm barriers.

[@hvanmegen]

As a dutch person, I would like to say to the people of Texas: "I see you like our technology! You're welcome! Enjoy and may it keep you safe!"

[@IwantDoubleToast]

same

[@ceoatcrystalsoft4942]

I'm sorry but Texans don't like foreigners so they would never thank you. They would claim they invented it and you stole it (somehow).

[@hanz3967]

You are not dutch. Maybe mixed ancestry at best.

[@quagengineer1877]

In the 80s Dutch learned from texans. It's a cycle.

[@danhummel84]

As a Texan, you don't own, nor did you invent sea walls....

[@wondersteven]

When I bought my house in Spanish Grant (Galveston) gulf side in 1999 it was third row beach. In 2008 with Hurricane Ike, it became second row beach. I sold it in 2018 because I was getting too old to worry about some hurricane or tropical storm taking it out. I truly miss the place, but not the anxiety. Hope this will help folks and industry down there.

[@stellawiller]

Yes of course ❤

[@carijun]

buy inland house wait till others wash away sell your new beachfront house for millions

[@juliannablaj8041]

@@carijun

[@stellawiller]

@@carijun hello dear 😍😍

[@cuauhtemocd.n.s1178]

@@stellawiller hello stella any social medias??? Lol

[@woofpuppy]

I went to Texas A&M in Galveston. They about 10 undergraduate degree programs. ALL of them required assessment and research of the coastal spine in some way, shape, or form. Lots of professors are published on this topic from environmental to economic impacts. I graduated in 2017 and 2018. It is crazy to see how all of the focus attention we put towards this as students has manifested itself into a multi-billion dollar project.

[@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle]

Yep, it's astonishing how just investing in education can help society. Oh well. The United States national education is going down the s****** and there's nothing that'll be done about it.

[@Kylan6754]

Reading this comment in Atlantic Hall right now

[@triple3miller]

Destroying the environment on the coast is pure stupidity.

[@triple3miller]

​@DLM123 Progressives have been successful in destroying our universities.

[@BeyondSustainableLiving]

IKR!

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[@davidnewbury1721]

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[@sheliaswelttk2535]

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[@kden1271]

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[@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156]

Whenever a military corps of engineers gets to work on a big infrastructure project, I can't help but be reminded of Julius Caesar getting his own Roman engineers to work on his temporary bridge across the Rhine. Projects like that are so surreal.

[@jtgd]

Or the wall within a wall

[@HashknightGaming]

It's the hallmark of human creation build them big and shiny.

[@HashknightGaming]

@Patrick Baptist Lol Rome failed long before America was even a thought.

[@kkon5ti]

For me it rather reminds me of Cesar crossing the Rubicon

[@kkon5ti]

@@HashknightGaming so what? America is going to fail this century, having lasted much less time than Rome

[@kekero540]

Galveston and Houston used to have an electric passenger rail connection as well as extensive electric trolley systems

[@nottawa86]

they need to bring this back and on a larger scale

[@iandennis7836]

​@@nottawa86"And deprive me of mah God Given Raht ter drive a 6.7 litre v10 truck dahn ter the store ter get a hayaff gallern o milk whenever ah wanna? Goddam pinko subversive commie bastard "....... well, good luck with that, or in other words it ain't gunna happen........sadly.

[@dbsti3006]

It's no joke. I have family in Galveston and visited the beach once in the early 90s, and again in the early 2000s. There's this narrow strip of sand where there used to be a decent sized beach.

[@woofpuppy]

This just depends on the tide. There has been a bunch of restoration and the beaches are now bigger, but if the tide is high they shrink.

[@Kgarz02]

If it follows typical Texas trends when it comes to infrastructure construction, then it will take 2-3 decades past due and 3-4 times the initial estimated cost. Hell I remember seeing a highway construction project in San Antonio that started when I was 4 and didn't get completed till I was 25.

[@nottherealjk]

The highways in San Antonio are still getting worked on.

[@Kgarz02]

@@nottherealjk Yeah I know. I'm just referencing those stacked bypasses just past the airport exit.

[@yazanmowed]

And all that is fine when it’s any of these projects with most people, but as soon as it’s rail infrastructure or public transit in general then it’s the spawn of satan and deserves no funding whatsoever.

[@psquared5574]

And how is that unique to Texas? You don’t get out much.

[@kevinhorrell4144]

Lol, we're still waiting on this MF harbor bridge in Corpus Christi

[@PLuMUK54]

Fred: "You may never have heard of Galveston..." Glen Campbell: "Hold my guitar!"

[@derradune6722]

Lol it made me feel old when he said that. I suddenly realised that song was from 53 years ago

[@melissakenfield5012]

I was baffled by that statement until I remembered I grew up next county over and of course most people haven't heard of Galveston 😂

[@Bacopa68]

The only hit song about the Spanish-American War. Got popular because folks interpreted it as about Vietnam.

[@melissajohnson2935]

Louisiana has already built one. It was built after Katrina to keep surge out of the river, which in turns keeps it out of lake Pontchartrain that feeds the canals that had the levee failures to create the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina.

[@b.thomas8926]

I live in the area, and been through Rita, Ike, and Harvey. Yeah, build the (sea)wall. If you never have experienced a hurricane, be happy. During Ike, after mandatory evacuations were issued, there were still people out on Bolivar that refused to evacuate. When the storm surge came in, they called for help. The Galveston PD told people out on Bolivar to write their SSN on their arms with magic markers because there was no way they could be rescued. (So they could be identified after drowning) That's the kind of storm a hurricane is. A sea wall will save lives.

[@Hayyyward]

Doesn't really matter as this planet gets more over populated. Those sea walls will not stop winds and heavy rain that causes flooding inland. As our population continues to keep growing, storms are only seen as worse as they affect more people and it's considered more costly. And as areas like that get more populated, it's much harder for those to evacuate and the storms are then considered more deadly. I've been thru many hurricanes myself but I do not live on the water for a reason. I live a good 40 minutes from any coastline and no sea wall will protect me from any major hurricane. When you've seen wind damage 100 miles away from the coast from a hurricane, you know there is nothing we can build to protect us from it.

[@b.thomas8926]

@@Hayyyward I grew up in Beaumont, Texas, and today, I live in Galveston County. I've experienced multiple hurricanes. And here's some facts. Do you know Port Author is surrounded by a dyke? Did you know that dyke has protected Port Author many times in the past? Did you know that low level cities around the world that have used such systems have weathered Typhoons and Hurricanes just fine? Sure, there is flooding inland, but, that's nothing compared to a wall of water pushed in from the sea. IF that water is held back, then the flood water inland has somewhere to go dramatically reducing the level of floodwaters inland. Dykes have dramatically reduced flooding every time they've been tested. This isn't science fiction, its happened and its real and Texas needs a system like this.

[@Hayyyward]

@@b.thomas8926 It's all because of overpopulation and too much development right on our coasts. As I said, that wall will do nothing for wind damage and there will always be flooding inland. All the wall will do is help what is immediately on the coast but it will alter the coastlines that formed naturally to deal with storms and flooding. Humans altering it is why we have to keep on doing things like this.

[@b.thomas8926]

@@Hayyyward The world is doomed, gotcha. It's amazing you can get up in the morning.

[@IanCrouse]

I'm from New Orleans, and they built massive pumps, waterways, levees, etc, for the big one. All worked well until the BIG ONE came, and it failed. In other worlds, no one knows the size of what will be the big one, but one will always be larger than what's built

[@ronkolek613]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that those levees were rated for a 100 year storm. And Katrina was a helluva lot more than that.

[@IanCrouse]

@@ronkolek613 true. it was a huge storm but the system was a catastrophic failure.

[@ronkolek613]

@@IanCrouse failure because it was outside the parameters it was designed for. Here’s hoping Texas over engineers it. The Dutch designed the Delta Works to handle a 100K year storm, and even then they are still looking at design parameters and what needs to be done to upgrade.

[@gadaadyn8190]

It failed because they built the canals at sea level instead of having the canals at ground level in New Orleans and have the pumps at the lake to push it then to sea level. Also MRGO also was a giant Trojan Horse that captured storm surge and caused the flooding in the ninth 9 ward and the Industrial Canal.

[@Mikaboshiff]

i was there for IKE, I was going to school at galveston college at the time and everything on the seawall was gone after the storm. We also went to Galveston every summer and any time it rained the city pretty much always flooded which is why im happy to see new drainage and pumps in the plan.

[@woofpuppy]

I remember it flooding bad by GC. I remember one time it poured down rain for a couple hours and my car was parked across the street to the east. That roadway was flooded and I saw at least a dozen cars stall out and float while trying to traverse it. I waited an hour but the water never receded and I had to get to my car and the water was quite literally balls deep when i walked through. Just from a couple hours of rain. A big part of the issue was clogged drains (for decades). A lot of work has been put into fixing this. Harborside doesn't flood like it used to anymore. It was shitty city management responsible for the flooding.

[@JVM42069]

Great informative video and not boring thanks

[@bararobberbaron859]

Preventing the damage from 1 Ike size event already earns this project back all its costs, so yeah, totally worth!

[@r45tyler]

worth

[@Ominous89]

Wow. It's an exact copy of what we Dutch call "Deltawerken" (Deltaworks). Our defence system against the sea. It only looks slightly more modern. But, same idea, and hopefully it works out for Texas or even other area's. If not, raise more dykes and design and install more valves until the system works. I'm actually very proud to see the Deltaworks being adapted by the USA. 👏

[@angryhairpeice]

Not exact. It will be a cheap knockoff, and will fail just like their power grid. Everything's dumber in Texas

[@Akurin]

Florida?

[@joecool4656]

Thanks. I’m glad to see other people like the US and what we are doing

[@ClementinesmWTF]

@@angryhairpeicecongrats on proving how little you actually understand about Texas infrastructure 🎉

[@caesarsalad1170]

@@angryhairpeice What makes you say that angrypubichairpiece?

[@sixteezchild]

GO TEXAS COAST!!! This will be beautiful and much needed! I know it's costing a LOT of money, but chances are it will save money in ways we cannot see! If it does its job, that will be magnificent and people, property, and businesses will be spared!

[@sailorman92704]

So you want my tax dollars to build over a billion dollar wall....to protect the wealthiest Americans with their millions of dollars of waterfront properties.....and I spend $20,000 a year on health insurance.....?

[@sixteezchild]

@@sailorman92704 I hear ya and can totally relate. I can't rub two pennies together being as I live on a 1 acre piece of oceanfront property in the desert in West Texas. Not too many can afford health insurance out here unless they were blessed to hang onto their jobs. I would help with the wall if I could...I'd do a lot of things to help save our drilling and production industry! This oil field raised my kids and gave my family a good living. It's all gone out here now.

[@moby1kanob]

@@sailorman92704 get a job that provides health insurance. There are PLENTY of jobs that will provide health insurance to you. Health insurance is also a problem stemming from Obamacare, so if you ever voted for that idiot, reap what you sew. I pay ZERO for my health insurance and get fantastic healthcare in Texas :)

[@sailorman92704]

@moby1kanob.... then you won't have any problem paying for your own seawall...instead of mooching off hardworking Americans taxes living across the country. BTW Americans pay twice what other wealthy countries pay for healthcare. So tell me about the great health insurance republicans are offering? .... oh... that's right.....Republicans have no plans.....republiCons have threatened for years to get rid of obamacare but have offered nothing....many republicans dont want to get rid of obamacare. It's the best game in town.....over 35 million Americans are on obamacare. Republicans don't know how to govern just b!tch about how awful it is here in America.....SO LEAVE!

[@danieljones3664]

@@sailorman92704 I mean, Houston is famous for flooding and this would prevent a lot of that. I know people who are not wealthy and lost everything to flooding. This will protect everyone in Houston.

[@Jacob-ed1bl]

I'm a towboat Captain primarily in the port of Houston and Galveston like the few shown in your video. I'm also a born and raised south Texan and have been in industry for 27 years, this is the first I've heard about this project and very curious how it's going to affect my job. The five way intersection where the flood gates are going to be placed is one of the busiest in the country with hundreds of vessels passes one way or other daily, very interesting to say the least.

[@eagle25311]

And I'm a tow boat 5 star general I even managed to tow your mom somehow

[@KB-ke3fi]

It's not gonna happen just because of that...this is all BS. The only thing that needs to change is the rest of the country's ignorance about the Gulf Coast.

[@Jacob-ed1bl]

@K B What? First of all, nobody said the traffic has anything to do with the project. I'm simply pointing out how I'm not familiar with the project and at the same time extremely knowledgeable about the area. I don't know what vast knowledge you claim to have about the Gulf Coast, but I'm 100% sure the experts know far more than you ever will. Not to be a jerk, but you sound pretty ignorant.

[@theshosher]

@@Jacob-ed1bl I think you underestamate the sheer size of this project. Yes you might need a detour you cant cut off close the coastline anymore, but 2 container ships could move through this with relative ease. and there's 2 of them. I get your concerns though. As someone from the netherlands i can tell you with all my heart. Its better to have a little added difficulty with boats then having millions of people flooded. We deal with water like nobody else does and and this is out of a pure need. In 1953 our small country got absolutely demolished by floods. Also it might actually increase your workload. Most of rotterdam cannot be entered by big ships, they have to be tugged. The chance of someone hitting the Delta works and breaking them is simply too high. i have no sense of scale how far this is away from houston, but theres a reasonable chance they'd have to be tugged the entire way.

[@Jacob-ed1bl]

@Shosher I understand the size of the project, but I don't think you understand the amount of traffic that goes through that location, and driving vessels isn't like driving a car. It's an extremely difficult location as it is, so saying "a little more difficulty" could lead to major catastrophe. Regardless, it's being built, and we'll deal with it.

[@imasnail3597]

As soon as he said “You’ve probably never even heard of it. Galveston!” I immediately knew he wasn’t talking about Texas residence at all. Every body in Texas knows about Galveston.

[@ianhaylock7409]

And us oldies know about it because of the song by Glenn Campbell.

[@HEllis-qu5nn]

Yeah he didnt even mention San Antonio when he was talking about major cities...what an idiot. Galveston is a major portway wtf is he talkibg about no one has heard of it???

[@Hollyclown]

You can’t just fix all your problems with a wall Texas! Texas:

[@Bacopa68]

Lots of people in Texas don't like the wall, particularly the people who live where it was built.

[@celladora31]

@@stevesherman5761 the dead do not feel anything

[@rorycannon7295]

@@stevesherman5761 u do realize that illegal immigrants are actually less likely to commit crimes than natives?

[@rorycannon7295]

@@stevesherman5761 bro this isnt even up for a debate it is a well studied fact, almost as well proven as climate change even, and as we all know, climate change is completely agreed upon.

[@rorycannon7295]

@@stevesherman5761 In 2018, the illegal immigrant criminal conviction rate was 782 per 100,000 illegal immigrants, 535 per 100,000 legal immigrants, and 1,422 per 100,000 native‐​born Americans. - the numbers do not lie.

[@The-KP]

Informative and mercifully brief - a rare combination these days!

[@SansNeural]

Not sure I can trust this presentation completely... he said the *corpse* of engineers has gotten involved.

[@The-KP]

@@SansNeural The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The same people who've been bringing you dams, locks, levees, dikes, bridges, seawalls and other large-scale water engineering projects for, oh, about a quarter of a millennia.

[@SansNeural]

@@The-KP Oh, I know all about the US Army Corps of Engineers... my father served in that Corps in the Korean War. But the narrator here said "corpse".

[@The-KP]

@@SansNeural lol

[@220ox7]

I live in central Texas but my family and I go to Port Aransas every summer on vacation and it's sad to see some places are still rebuilding to 100 % capacity and some places we liked to eat or go just folded up shop and moved. Mother Nature does her own thing and we no different than creatures can do no more than learn, overcome and try to adapt to her will.

[@ameanoacid6176]

Sure, In The Netherlands we have been doing well for decades. This is essentially a copy paste of the Delta works in Zeeland and the Measlantkering In Rotterdam. Just saying, you Americans are years behind on what can and honestly should have been done.

[@HelloImNoob2323]

I'm sorry you live in Texas. Is there anything I can do to help?

[@vinceruland9236]

​@@HelloImNoob2323 don't be sorry. Texas is great

[@HelloImNoob2323]

@@vinceruland9236 It used to be, pre Trump

[@vinceruland9236]

@Hello I'm noob still is. Trump didn't have any negative effects

[@isaiahmacallister7760]

I'm a Houstonian, but I always come to Galveston. I don't like it because it's the closest, however it's nice though. But the culture, people, experience, history, and views are unsettling. Please, if you go to either Houston or Galveston, experience them. Those that come to Houston go to Galveston. Galveston is a city tied together with Houston. The spring time through fall is a really beautiful time to go. Go watch the sunset to because believe me watching the sunset from Galveston is a sight you won't ignore or forget about. Come visit us down here!

[@slowedversion6393]

Feel like this is only gonna backfire. Mother Nature is very strong

[@jojodroid31]

Yep, should divest from fossil fuels instead, but they'll only realize their greed once it's too late. But hey, they can just sell their houses and move, amiright?

[@michaeltrower741]

agreed

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

And yet we have to be very careful not to kill the old hag on accident. We got this.

[@christianmoore7932]

What do you mean by backfire. It won't make a hurricane worse but if you mean overconfidence in the system that leads to people staying in they're homes then maybe. But it should greatly reduce damage from hurricanes

[@danniionderwater]

Je moet ook voorbeeld nemen aan ons Nederlanders wij zijn 1 met de zee. Volg de golven en leert ze kennen en geef ruimte waar nodig. Watermanagement is vooruit denken hoe efficient, weerbaar, leefbaar we de toekomst verzekeren.

[@jordez1]

Im currently on a work assignment here Amsterdam and I drive every day to the Port of IJmuiden and I see these navigating gates, very impressive structures. I hope Houston(I’m from Katy) adopts this technology to protect our city.

[@lucasrem]

IJmuiden is impressive, how Amsterdam got access to the sea, an ongoing project, the new wider gates now! Houston needs the same solution, are the taxpayers willing to understand it ?

[@Geoff9001]

H-town represent haha. I'm from Katy too but it's just Houston to those outside of east Texas. Yeah Netherlands have been reclaiming land for centuries with windmill pumps and their civil engineering is impressive. I would say our system of hundreds of miles of huge bayous is pretty impressive too if I'm being honest

[@mikespurg8006]

@@cubefreak123 lost tax revenue from homes worth a lot less after Harvey. We survived Harvey and Ike, except for some pieces of fence knocked down. We are located near I-10 and Houston Tollway, 2 miles from Memorial Hospital and shopping mall. House values have sky rocketed. Never had flooding or wind damage on our street. Lucky. so far.

[@USandGlobal]

@@lucasremno since Amsterdam and Texas are like comparing a house to one of the worlds greatest buildings 😂 Netherlands has terminal demographics as well where they have more older people than young and low birthrates and one of the reasons is because they have high taxes so no I hope Thai doesn’t happen in Texas

[@USandGlobal]

@@Geoff9001not really impressive about the Netherlands system 😂 and comparing it to Texas is pretty funny since Texas has a much larger economy thanks to its great technology

[@lemonhead162]

Galveston County is my home and I miss it dreadfully now that I live up in the Austin area.

[@M7S4I5L8V2A]

I went there on vacation in I think 2010. My dad apparently had been in the past and my stepmom went there for her senior trip I think. They really hyped it up but I don't think they had heard or remembered the damage it took. I remember when checking into a hotel I saw a pamphlet for a hotel in the area I think called the flagship or something. Then we went driving around and looking back I think my dad had a lot more planned because we mostly just saw houses and rubble. I remember trying to keep an out for the hotel and while driving by some other stuff I saw it. It was about half way intact and you couldn't really drive up to it.

[@woofpuppy]

The hotel was intact as well as most of the pier structure it was situated on. Apparently it used to be *the spot* for governors & presidents decades ago. It turned into a rats nest/dumpster but still operated until Ike. The hurricane damaged the connection of the pier to the seawall/roadway. It was sold to Tillman Fertitta for only $500,000. It is the site of the Pleasure Pier today. Apparently it is the "Historic Pleasure Pier" because that is what it was originally opened as prior to the construction of the Flagship hotel.

[@rockyroad7345]

People always talk about things in Texas being big, but never fail to forget San Antonio, which is a beautiful historic city and the 2nd biggest in the state behind Houston.

[@moby1kanob]

what does that have to do with anything in this video? Sure just interject your city into the discussion for no reason, makes sense.

[@214dude2]

Dallas is the true 2nd largest city in Texas. San Antonio simply annexed more land to boost its population. Dallas County alone still has more people than the entire San Antonio metro area.

[@kronk9418]

@@214dude2 I see you just contradicted every contemporary census report from the Gov, nice.

[@214dude2]

@@kronk9418 How? Dallas - 1,304,379 (339.6 sq mi of land) Dallas County - 2,613,539 (873.06 sq mi of land) DFW Area - 7,637,387 (8,675 sq mi) San Antonio - 1,434,625 (498.85 sq mi of land) Bexar County - 2,009,324 (1,240 sq mi of land) San Antonio Metro area - 2,558,143 (7,387 sq mi) Numbers from 2020. Clearly Dallas is the much larger city by these stats.

[@Followerofchrist2091]

The biggest need as well to Galveston, and I am in the area, is a need for a traffic route connecting between Bolivar and Galveston island. And bolivar needs their highway improved from a 2 lane to at least a 4-6 lane for evacuation routes. Houston is so huge now that taking the I45 corridor to get out is really hard when you’re on the south side. We need routes heading east, the only way to cross is a slow ferry system that can take 1-3 hours depending on traffic and time of year.

[@vitopannucci2001]

This, on Thanksgiving the power lines on the Bolivar side shorted and we sat there for 3 hours. They're buying another ferry soon for $40M, converting the others to diesel hybrid, and spend about $50M annually between the two ferry systems in the state according to txdot. The Baytown Bridge is similar in length and height to what would be needed in Galveston and cost about $250M adjusted for inflation...

[@KRYMauL]

That won’t fix anything. It sounds like they need more options or have a freight only route. More lane = more trips.

[@lucasrem]

Keep the islands as they are please, you need to move to Austin ! Keep it as a vacation home only!

[@hockeymaskbob2942]

Need to build out alternate options like passenger rail, all adding another lane will do is create more backed up traffic

[@hockeymaskbob2942]

@@cubefreak123 the rail infrastructure already exists, just copy what Brightline did in Florida, spend a little time and money repairing and improving the existing track, then you'd have a system that not only moves more people faster then the existing 10 lane highway, but also removes traffic from said highway

[@Tremoring]

I can't wait to see what happens when the Ike Dike meets hurricane Tina in the future.

[@vulture3874]

That's why it is so important to have a tidal energy project. So the big wheel, will indeed, keep on turnin'.

[@Grenadier311]

A powerful hurricane pushing up the Houston ship channel would be apocalyptic.

[@gaius_enceladus]

Great video! A very impressive project! Good to see the Army Corps of Engineers involved - if anyone can get things done, they can!

[@lucasrem]

Just copy the works from Rotterdam, but are taxpayers willing to pay for it ? if anyone can get things done ?

[@frankmacleod2565]

They can't stop sea levels from rising

[@conradnelson5283]

@@frankmacleod2565 an inch every hundred years. They can handle it

[@frankmacleod2565]

@@conradnelson5283 unfortunately it's a much faster rate than that, and the rate itself is accelerating. Sea level in San Francisco bay has come up seven inches in the last century and the rate is increasing. King tides have consistently been several inches higher than predicted according to standard models, the last few years. I live on the ocean and can see this rise myself. The ocean is changing

[@frankmacleod2565]

@@conradnelson5283 you didn't think the climate changes at the same rate over time, did you? The climate fluctuates over time in reaction to a great variety of drivers, one of which is atmospheric chemistry.

[@RenTheGreat]

It's funny how In a lot of videos about Texas they usually exclude San Antonio. San Antonio is bigger than Austin yet it seems like it doesnt exist to the rest of the world.

[@kronk9418]

They’ve forgotten the Alamo. Faith in humanity lost.

[@michaeltrower741]

San Antonio is always forgotten

[@cornebod]

The sun will have to rotate around the earth before this project begins 🤣🤣🤣

[@seeyoucu]

Great video

[@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503]

15 miles inland ...that's crazy... I grew up 14 miles from Seal Beach California in Downey... that's a long way! Wow ✌️❤️🇺🇸🗽

[@christiancruiz9044]

Build the wall ! Build that wall!

[@Fayroozi]

US Army "Corpse" of Engineers

[@VinnyUnion]

Met a US Navy chick and she was a complete jerk. Assuming me being jealous for not being in the military or not being accecpted into. What a total joke. The seniors are already retiring and the army is being replaced by juvenile karens and ts as well. I highly doubt it would stand a chance against other armies at this point. Especially asian ones which are just fierce on the battlefield.

[@benba8342]

0:30 They're finally decarbonizing their Energy sector!; They're finally decar... Oh. Oh shit! "Dealing" that way.

[@ClementinesmWTF]

Texas is the largest green energy producer in the US…we can talk about complete decarbonization when the rest of the US stops begging for its oil addiction. Until then, blaming Texas for the nationwide (and worldwide) issue is ridiculous

[@Jorjgasm]

The idea that it would cost just 31 billion is absolutely crazy.

[@Tyler_Durden_562]

I mean, if you're going to build something this massive. It's a very smart idea to get ideas and help from countries that have implemented similar or identical systems with success lol - bravo to A&M for finding some help to make realistic plans

[@DanAndHoe]

Yeah, no need to reinvent the wheel. There’s a lot of expertise all around the world, ready to be tapped into. Being Dutch I look forward to seeing the end product, how it might be different to the ones we have here, considering Texas deals with different weather than the Netherlands.

[@CallieMasters5000]

I live 2 blocks from the location at 7:01. My family never left Galveston for any hurricane, including Ike in 2008. After the 1900 Storm they built the Seawall, which is about 17 feet tall facing the Gulf of Mexico for about 100 blocks. Then they did the Grade Raising, where they filled in the entire island by about 9 feet, jacking up all the surviving buildings, including cathedrals, mansions, businesses and small homes. This took about 14 years. The storm surge came in from the Bay side, where the flooding was as much as 10 feet in Ike, though less as you go towards the Seawall, as the island drains to the bay. Along Broadway the flooding was about 4 feet. The cost of the Ike Dike is projected to be less than the insurance claims paid out in Hurricane Ike alone, so the sooner we get it the better. New Orleans got billions of dollars in levees and storm protection tight after Hurricane Katrina, yet we haven't had any building yet. You can go visit the county history museum and see the jewelry and other personal effects of victims from the 1900 storm. Galveston has a long history, and our property values continue to increase every year. Most homes are now being built to at least 20 feet above sea level now, or even more. We're just a sand bar 3x30 miles long, but we'll survive one way or another.

[@longhunter1975]

I got a lot in Gilchrist next to rowover

[@oreo1064]

@@revelationakagoldeneagle8045 No been sober for years now. When I hear about this beach town that comes to mind. Sorry to upset u.

[@oreo1064]

@@revelationakagoldeneagle8045 When I hear of this small beach town that comes to mind. Sorry to upset u.

[@revelationakagoldeneagle8045]

@@oreo1064 I'm not upset Brother... I was just a little confused at the moment. Blessings from Georgia 🍑 🙏

[@oreo1064]

@@revelationakagoldeneagle8045Shalom Yud-Tes Kislev

[@markzieber9733]

Now that's a wall worth building.

[@jackdamron382]

Corpse of engineers? Deadly.

[@JuliaGilmore]

I liked it, an interesting idea

[@lk29392]

I'm from Houston and have been to Galveston many times. Too bad it has some really rough/delapidated areas in the middle of the island. The east and west ends are very nice.

[@celladora31]

Poor people have to live somewhere too.

[@konichiwa3744]

Need to gentrification the place. Get them to unaffordable tax rates. Bunch of bums with beach walk homes

[@celladora31]

@@stevesherman5761 because most people live in coastal areas. Lots of people live in tornado alley too. Develop some empathy.

[@celladora31]

@@stevesherman5761 most people live in coastal areas. There is always something to endure. Whether it's hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, drought, etc. You sound ignorant and I obviously hit the nail on the head by pointing out your lack of empathy even for your own family. No one worth their salt asked for any help. We actually help each other without being asked because we have empathy. Your kind isn't welcome here, so we can all be happy that you chose to live elsewhere.

[@Bacopa68]

@Steve Sherman There's still plenty of industry and commerce in Galveston. It's not entirely a resort town as all the features that made it an attractive port are still there.

[@Gandalfthefabulous]

I wish them all the luck! Here in the Netherlands engineers have come around from switching to mega dykes immediatelly though. Why? they cost a huuuge amount of money , effort and ecological worth and sometimes just move the problem to another area (I know in New Orleans they built massive floodworks but now the floods just go further inland targetting less populated (but still populated) areas). A lot of times it's easier and cheaper to work with your environment. Like strengthening excisting dunes, marshes or mangroves (if you live somewhere they grow). Or move around or adapt your cities to the moving coastline. Why not accept the sea is sometimes more powerfull then humans? We don't have to 'conquer' or 'defeat' it

[@chinavirus841]

The Netherlands defeated USA in the World Cup!!!!!!!

[@aluisious]

Are you actually a Dutch person talking about adapting to the land? You've got to be kidding. Large portions of your country shouldn't exist. You're a bit late to talk about mangroves of all things.

[@Gandalfthefabulous]

@@aluisious yes I am. Why shouldn't we be able to talk about our wrongs? Just the fact that we have allready been through it all and can talk from experience means our views are worth something. Saying you can't talk about something just because you did a bad in the past is just ridiculous

[@GreenCowsGames]

@@aluisious It's a huge thing in the water sector nowadays. 'Soft' protection as opposed to 'hard' protection. And passive over active. Once you combine soft with passive you get nature based solutions, or stuff like the 'Haakse zeedijk'.

[@Bill_N_ATX]

They kind of buried the lead as they say in the news business. Indeed they are protecting the city of Galveston and some other residential areas, but they are also protecting the petroleum and chemical plants of Texas City and the banks of the Trinity Bay. They process over 2 million barrels of oil every day plus produce a lot of chemicals from oil and natural gas. It’s billions in revenue every week. Plus we export millions of barrels of oil and refined products out of this area.

[@tclanjtopsom4846]

I watched a video on the Netherlands Sea barrier, amazing work. I'm sure Texas will get experts from there to build in Texas.

[@j.griffin]

Unfair to Storms! PREJUDICE! ☝🏿🤠👍🏿

[@campbellsadeghy213]

The Army Corps of Engineers just announced a preferred alternative in a $35+ billion dollar seawall project for NYC as well.

[@cameronf3343]

@Patrick Baptist National debt & personal debt are treated very differently. AKA… no worries.

[@caesarsalad1170]

@@patrickbaptist8233 So let another hurricanes storm surge hit and do $30 billion worth of damage? Oh that $30 billion seawall would have helped right about now. It will pay for itself.

[@caesarsalad1170]

@@patrickbaptist8233 You know what drove up costs? Printing trillions during a bs pandemic. Did that money contribute to anything beneficial? No it just went to stimulus checks people bought TVs and beer with.

[@caesarsalad1170]

@@patrickbaptist8233 Defense budget is around 700b a year, a couple trillion on stimulus is a much more massive waste than actually using $ for something tangible.

[@caesarsalad1170]

@@patrickbaptist8233 There will always be need for defense, on this planet or off it.

[@tdyerwestfield]

I don't think people have forgotten about the hurricane that hit Galveston in the early 1900s. Isn't it still the deadliest hurricane in US history?

[@409DLo]

It is

[@lightdark00]

It doesn't sit right with the climate propagandists though.

[@409DLo]

@@lightdark00 what doesn't sit right?

[@77Treasurehunter77]

It is the deadliest........and people have forgotten.

[@lightdark00]

@@409DLo Anything that disagrees with their propaganda.

[@motexas9092]

I’m currently working at the Galveston bay refinery hopefully this will keep more steady work in the area

[@simonb9573]

Hopefully the refinery won't work much longer or soon you will have to build another higher wall. .

[@yulieminaj]

are you looking for a sugar baby 😳 asking for myself

[@PCrailfan3790]

Florida needs this

[@randomtricksvideos]

Did you guys take the music from the intro for Undecided?

[@MayorZach]

Guy 1 : *sees dude building a wall in the desert* Guy 1 : " why you buildin' that wall here?" Guy 2 : "to keep these guys out of my country that i don't like" Guy 1 : "well....I don't like the ocean very much..." Guy 2 : "Wall it up!"

[@rorycannon7295]

family guy nice

[@jeebusk]

I think you mixed up guy 1 with guy 2

[@Mike335is]

As someone who just moved to Galveston county... This is amazing!!

[@TheHornet44]

“Texas is defending its coastline in the only way it knows how” Building a wa- going big! Going big is what I was thinking too

[@eustatic3832]

Texas storms are orders of magnitudes larger than little Rotterdam storms, is one problem. The other problem is that Harvey flooded the ship channel from above

[@woofpuppy]

Yes every proposed plan for a coastal spine is not waterproof but will only mitigate the turbulence of the water. Its a joke.

[@BamBamGT1]

These structures are specifically designed to handle the most extreme of storms. You're not designing from scratch 22 metre tall, 6800 ton steel arms to handle measly storms. Their magnitude design was 'once in 10000 years' storms.

[@ericwright8592]

Good luck. Lived on the Texas coast a while. It flooded when we got the slightest drizzle. Galveston is basically a bowl. The seawall facing the gulf and the port facing the bay side, basically the perimeter of the island, are the highest points. Everything in between is much, much lower. Also kind of ironic the oil and gas industry needs help being saved from increasingly stronger storms caused by the effects of pollution from... the oil and gas industry.

[@wlpaul4]

They would very much like it if you forgot about that.

[@ericwright8592]

@@wlpaul4 now that I think about it, the seawall will do exactly what they intend it to, protect the refineries and port. The actual residents of the coastal areas? If it helps them, that's a happy coincidence. Always amazing they can find billions for these projects but building even just proper sidewalks in texas? Who will pay for such extravagances?

[@jarjarbinks6018]

I think your neglecting all the people who work in the oil industry and other big industries in that area who will be protected by this barrier. +7 million… Do you remember hurricane Harvey

[@ericwright8592]

@@jarjarbinks6018 @JarJar Binks hurricane Harvey was terrible because of falling rain, not storm surge. It was a very different storm than Ike. There's a ton of people there, yes, but one of the biggest issues is unchecked development paving what used to be swamps and bayous. Houston sprawl is absolutely nuts. They may keep the ocean out but heavy rain will still plague them all the same as before.

[@franciscodanconia4324]

Except we aren’t seeing worse and worse storms. The worst hurricane to ever hit Texas happened in… wait for it… 1886.

[@amydiazhollis6642]

Islander here. Thanks for covering Galveston! We are gritty and resilient bunch down here.

[@amydiazhollis6642]

@Steve Sherman you don't see me begging for handouts. And I was born here.

[@amydiazhollis6642]

@Steve Sherman negative. I thanked the creator for making a video about Galveston.

[@HTown99]

@@amydiazhollis6642 @Steve Sherman Steve, that was embarrassing.

[@franksullivan1873]

Great idea!

[@Redlined997_C2S]

Fascinating.

[@aiwash2766]

I remember going to Galveston 2 years after Ike hit we where still seeing the aftermath, there was still boats in the side of the highway and houses where still in ruin it decimated that area

[@michaeltrower741]

yeah, Ike was bad, really bad

[@stevejenkins2335]

I was there the day after. Had to swerve around boats and a ship on 45 to get in then drove on 20 foot pile of rubble to get downtown.

[@jeebusk]

Seems like it would make sense to collect tidal energy as part of this project .

[@ravinraven6913]

nah, its texas, they didn't think that hard. They said what is the best way to protect our oil fields and keep the flow going and the money coming....anything that benefited other people is just a side effect from them not thinking things through texas is a land of idiots. In marfa one year, they had a veterans day parade, a flatbed truck full of ww2 vets, vietnam vets, all old. That truck stopped on a train track, a train came and no one even tried to get off, move or save their life in any way, AT ALL...they are idiots, the smart ones move away.

[@mimcduffee86]

Tidal energy sounds too green. The people running Texas would never go for it.

[@fishingfool2644]

That would be too "woke" for them.

[@DanielRichards644]

@@mimcduffee86 Well given how well the "green" Windmills and shutting down natural gas power plants worked for them last winter when they got hit with a big freeze and chunks of the power grid collapsed because of it, wouldn't you be suspicious of "green" projects when you just saw a bunch of people DIE in the name of Renewable Energy?

[@vulture3874]

Tidal, solar and wind. However as others have said. No, this is Texas. Although I find it baffling that a nation so fiercely proud and independant wouldn't take the opportunity to use any resource possible in order to be less reliant on other nations for its energy.

[@Luk844]

When people see negative things, often they haven't asked you to know anything. Assuming is dangerous. Never take anything for granted.

[@paulowens4744]

Build that wall!!

[@ladymidnight4282]

Omg you finally talked about Galveston! Finally felt seen for once. Is it possible if you could make more videos on Houston? We are the 4th largest city in the US after all.

[@leogarcia5174]

Waiting for a vid on Austin’s upcoming super tall skyscraper

[@ClementinesmWTF]

@@leogarcia5174Austin also recently got *another* supertall proposal that will beat out the Waterline. Excited to see what more comes to the Austin skyline in the next decade

[@lucasrem]

Why you never post them ? Post videos please, what can you find ?

[@lucasrem]

@@leogarcia5174 please do make them!

[@DavidSimpson-dm9kf]

Impressive project. Not sure how a sea wall can nullify hurricane damage. Time will tell I expect.

[@moby1kanob]

well you are not an engineer but I will describe it best I can in layman's terms. There are things called "storm surges" when a hurricane hits and it raises the sea wall and causes HUGE flooding very far inland well past the coast and causes billions in damage. These walls will break up these storm surges and deflect their energy from the more susceptible parts of the coast from flooding. Also deflect flooding away from important infrastructure and highly populated areas. This will pay for itself easily in time. This has nothing to do with wind damage that occurs along the coast line but the damage REALLY far inland since the land is very flat.

[@dave7072]

@@moby1kanob Many thanks for your explanation re: damage caused sea water. That makes sense. :)

[@mikeleader9594]

@@moby1kanob water wins

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

@@mikeleader9594 Brain dead take.

[@drjekelmrhyde]

It went boom

[@jonjonesiii8619]

Extreme weather has been common for hundreds of years!

[@kmaher1424]

You mentioned the Seawall. it was another huge project. Especially when raising the grade of the portion of tlhe island behind the Seawall. Buildings and utilities were jacked up and sludge pumped in. Initially funded by Galveston. Houston paid for the Ship Channel. Galveston had a hard time distributing cargo with one railroad bridge. Hiuston's motto was Where The Railroads Meet the Sea. Lined with petrochemical plants because loading tankers directly is better than building more pipelines The Bush sprout tried to use the Land Office to begin another wonderful Bush political career. He failed...

[@michaeltrower741]

sprout :)

[@tylerahrens275]

Climate change has no effect on size and frequency of hurricanes. If you feel like more damage is done by hurricanes each year, its probably because more and more people are moving to many of the hurricane-prone regions of the US.

[@pathfinder509]

The wrath of nature is the correct explanation

[@omadoutlaw4868]

An old country song made Galveston familiar to me, but I have never been to that part of Texas.

[@PropiaPersona]

Nothing can stop the destruction when the world shakes

[@2009heyhow]

Texas is going Dutch! Good job guys, this will plan be very succesfull. I know it.

[@stellawiller]

Of course dear it will be very successful 🎉

[@imho2278]

Yes, must be reassuring to know that in the event of hurricanes, the Netherlands will be safe!

[@moby1kanob]

If you use an Apple product or an Android or an Google or Amazon product does that mean you are going American?? YAY!!!!

[@2009heyhow]

@@moby1kanob Maybe i would say it when i prepare myself a hamburger. Food has much more of a cultural aspect to it then for example a tech product. While in this video it's about a certain construction technique. One that became an importand part of our culture.

[@ryanstanley3838]

my grandparents live there, I go to Christmas there every year since I was a baby

[@GrumpyCockatiel]

The natural erosion of The Island is for the Gulf side to erode while the bay side builds-up. Some day when we are long gone... so too will be Galveston when it collides with the mainland. Though probably by that time another barrier island will take its place.

[@AmandaComeauCreates]

It's infuriating that $31 b is considered a lot of money in a tourism city in an oil and gas state in a 1st place globally defense budget country. That's a drop in the bucket of the money available. And considering the rebuilding costs of damaged property lately.....an overdue no brainer.

[@davidsmith385]

Don't worry, Big Oil and Gas companies won't lose any money or pay any, Taxpayers will pay

[@OnesRealness]

That next storm gone hit way before that’s built

[@jimhudson4744]

the 2008 storm was big, we felt its affects even in Dallas a couple hundred miles away.

[@Hailstonepie]

Of course We've heard of Galveston, there was a song about it.

[@dansanger5340]

In Texas, I figured they would go for mass prayers or something like that. It would be a lot cheaper. I know that was their official policy for dealing with drought back in 2011. The governor issued a proclamation calling for days of prayer against the drought. It wasn't effective, but it was cheap.

[@DanielRichards644]

Ok fascist, whatever you say, bet you support funding the nazi's in Ukraine too.

[@dansanger5340]

@@DanielRichards644 No, I support Communist KGB Colonel Putin. Doesn't everyone?

[@DanielRichards644]

@Dan Sanger no, people that think for themselves can acknowledge both sides are bad.

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

"We're gonna build that wall" meets King Canute.

[@casabarvlogs]

informative 😊 who agrees

[@dahwe12]

I wonder how much additional costs it would be for maintenance until the next big storm.

[@moby1kanob]

@Steve Sherman well you are not an engineer but I will describe it best I can. There are things called "storm surges" when a hurricane hits and it raises the sea wall and causes HUGE flooding very far inland well past the coast and causes billions in damage. These walls will break up these storm surges and deflect their energy from the more susceptible parts of the coast from flooding. Also deflect flooding away from important infrastructure and highly populated areas. This will pay for itself easily in time. This has nothing to do with wind damage that occurs along the coast line but the damage REALLY far inland since the land is very flat.

[@SCTproductionsJ5]

Walls don't work. We have *ladders* 😂

[@littleredcurious5044]

Yes , let’s get a short time fix while we continue to contribute to the problem 🔥🔥🙌 gatta love the west . 😊

[@JohnVance]

I just read Neal Stephenson's novel Termination Shock this year, which prominently features the Maeslantkering which this looks to be modeled on. Unbelievably huge project but probably cheaper than moving millions of people and businesses inland.

[@andyphillips7435]

For someone who played excellent guitar and wrote spot on lyrics, that's the first time you have been.

[@HashknightGaming]

John C Vance?

[@JohnVance]

@@HashknightGaming My grandfather was a John C. Vance, but I am not. The other commenter may have mistaken me for someone else.

[@HashknightGaming]

@@JohnVance My biological father's name was John Charles Vance just making sure. 😐😅🤣

[@JohnVance]

@@HashknightGaming Shucks, mine was John Campbell. So close!

[@JoseFlores-tj9lw]

being a Houston citizen this is honestly smart. About the money situation Texas has a huge economy, doesn’t really affect us specially in projects that make sense.

[@moby1kanob]

@Steve Sherman we are ;)

[@secretpersond8324]

Looks nice hope it gets passed, we definitely need to help are coasts. South padre island is a dam nice beach and not many people know about it in the rest of the country.

[@TeckPanda]

I know about because of SpaceX

[@frankmacleod2565]

People don't go to Texas for the lovely beaches

[@vinceruland9236]

​@Frank MacLeod I think the beaches here are great. Especially the ones in very low populated ares and you can drive for miles sometimes and not see another person. Who wants to go to a beach that has thousands of people crammed on it?

[@frankmacleod2565]

@@vinceruland9236 Sounds like it is here in California. I like the empty ones myself. Just gotta stay out of the big cities, like everywhere else. I can't imagine the beaches in Galveston are exactly empty

[@vinceruland9236]

@Frank MacLeod no, def not in Galveston. I like to surf fish, so I go to virtually empty beaches where I can drive the beach until there's nobody around. In south Padre Island, it's like a 60 mile drive down the beach and you're literally alone. So nice. The only beaches in Cali I've been to are all the ones in SD.

[@tightlines106]

Would make a top fishing spot