Re: Images of Ike - Then & Now - Houston Chronicle
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Bateauxdriver on 9/7/2009, 10:16 pm
| Those that haven't been to Galveston should take a trip there just to marvel over the great sea wall. I was there in 2006 and studied the feat of engineering that took place a hundred years ago. Giant and I mean giant boulders form the riprap base. Then the awesome recurved wall rises nearly 20 feet above sea level. It doesn't stop there, the land tapers it seems another 10 feet up before you reach the buildings on the far side of Sea Wall Blvd. I remember swimming in the Galveston surf one year post Katrina with my two young sons and explaining the design of the sea wall to them. On our way to Galveston we toured what remained of Holly Beach, Louisiana after Rita. Nothing was left but a few pilings. We then drove along the coast headed west. Once we reached the Texas coast Rita damage was almost non-existant even though beach houses virtually had their toes in the water. I told my wife and sons that someday the Texas coastline will look exactly like Holly Beach when the right storm hits. Within 2 years it did. |
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