Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike, the House voted Thursday to authorize a project to protect against the next raging storm.
Cyclists ride past debris piled up on the seawall road Sept. 14, 2008, after Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast in Galveston. Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of homes and businesses near Galveston, the U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, to authorize a defense bill. It includes major projects to improve the nation’s waterways and protect communities against floods made more severe by climate change.
“It was quite different than anything we had done in the United States and it took us a little while to come around to it,” said Merrell of Texas A&M University at Galveston.by a vote of 350-80. It includes major projects to improve the nation’s waterways and protect communities against floods made more severe by climate change.
“No matter what side of politics you are on, everyone is interested in having good water resources,” said Sandra Knight, president of WaterWonks LLC.Researchers at Rice University in Houston have estimated that a Category 4 storm with a 24-foot storm surge could damage storage tanks and release more than 90 million gallons of oil and hazardous substances.
“The future for a lot of these communities is not going to look like the past,” said Jimmy Hague, senior water policy advisor at the Nature Conservancy.flood solutions that use nature
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