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J.D. c/o 05 said:

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We are trying to organize some post Laura assistance. Please let us know if we can doing anything for your parents after the storm.

Feel free to email jdlco2005 at gmail. No idea how any of this is going to shake out but if we can help we will.

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just fyi i am messaging those i know over there to see if they need help i will keep you posted.

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There are several proposals for protecting the Houston region from the kind of superstorm that leveled Galveston in 1900, in what remains the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The most well-known plan is the Ike Dike, a seventy-mile-long, $23 billion to $31 billion coastal barrier and gate system designed to keep storm surge out of Galveston Bay. O'Rourke advocates, instead, for the "Galveston Bay Park Project." The idea is to use dredged-up sand, rock, and mud to build a string of publicly accessible islands that would buffer the western side of Galveston Bay and the Ship Channel while also providing locals with new destinations for camping, fishing, migratory bird-watching, and marina access.

At an estimated cost of $5 billion to $7 billion, the project would be far cheaper than either the Ike Dike or the cost of recovering from an epic natural disaster. Proponents believe the project could be financed at the county and state level, ideally with the help of local industry, and be completed within five years. Unfortunately, O'Rourke said, officials haven't completed the kind of environmental impact analysis necessary to move the proposal forward in that timespan.

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gigemJTH12 said:

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serious question...if the landfall holds true to current prediction...are we going to get ANYthing from this?

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gigemJTH12 said:

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serious question...if the landfall holds true to current prediction...are we going to get ANYthing from this?

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schmendeler said:

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MAS444 said:

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"Houston as we know it would be be pretty much gone."

Isn't that a little (or lot) dramatic?

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I thought they were supposed to be "weather without the hype"

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what effect do you think 15-20 foot storm surge would have on the refineries, etc, along the ship channel area?

i'm not an expert, but i imagine they are aren't that high up? i could be completely mistaken, though.

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cone said:

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I'm with most of this, although I don't know how you "construct for high winds"

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Ferris Wheel Allstar said:

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cone said:

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the liquefaction terminal?

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si it is not built very well

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Fitch said:

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I think we're talking about different things. I'm referring to changing design standards to be underground moving forward for new construction, not going back city-wide and burying lines across the board.

The better way to do that is similar to the storm sewer replacements across town when roads come up for rehabilitation, spread it out over long-term planned improvement & bond out the capital cost over 30-50 years through rate increases.

Transmission lines are a b*tch to bury. Done that too - cost $2000/linear foot. That makes no sense.

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Ag_N_Houston said:

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cone said:

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I'm with most of this, although I don't know how you "construct for high winds"

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I think he is referring to building codes. He's saying we should building in Houston the way they build someplace like Miami.

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BillYeoman said:

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Rumors are that it hasn't turned North as expected at this time and still tracking NW. Not to alarm but still too close for comfort

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