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Old 07-15-2009, 02:21 AM
 
Location: Great Falls, Montana
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It has been dubbed the "IkeDike" — a 55-mile barrier, 17 feet high, that would be built along the Texas Gulf Coast to fend off the sort of devastating flooding inflicted by last year's Hurricane Ike.
I don't think they'll get anything built before even a tropical storm wipes out the rest of highway 87 between High Island and Gilchrist.
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Old 07-15-2009, 07:42 AM
 
Location: DFW Texas
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Old 07-15-2009, 08:50 AM
 
Location: Great Falls, Montana
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'Ike ****' proposed along Texas coast- msnbc.com

oops ... I usually post links, but I think it was late, and I forgot this one.
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Old 07-15-2009, 09:02 AM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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I don't think they'll get anything built before even a tropical storm wipes out the rest of highway 87 between High Island and Gilchrist.
I don't think they'll do anything either. The coastal stretch from High Island to Sabine Pass and all the way to New Orleans is a dangerous place and should really be left as a nature preserve. It's a super-marsh thriving with life that gets washed out by regular salt water surges, killing everything. Layer after layer of this dead material = buku oil & natural gas. Standing natural gas sometimes combusts due to lightning. Especially after a hurricane, the dead plant matter burns from these fires. The ash returns to the ground as (potassium) fertilizer. Outside of hurricane season a single monsoon rain can keep the area flooded for weeks. Plants grow, animals come back, etc. The cycle repeats. This is really not a good place to move forward any kind of serious development outside of rice and crawfish farming, as the forces of nature are too great to sustain it.
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Old 07-15-2009, 11:47 AM
 
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They need to build this barrier about 10 miles off shore in the sea, then maybe it will filter some of the silt and the water will be clear!
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