State Sen. Larry Taylor said there's no time to waste with climate change making storms more intense
— Oceanographer Bill Merrell will never forget the night he spent trapped inside a building in Galveston, Texas, as Hurricane Ike slammed ashore in 2008. The storm caused $30 billion in damage.
He sketched out a Texas version, which came to be known as the"Ike Dike." The initial response to the idea? That crazy idea may soon stand guard at Galveston Bay, home to the nation's largest export harbor and the biggest petrochemical complex in the Western Hemisphere. It is part of the Army Corps of Engineers' $29 billion plan to defend a large part of the Texas Gulf Coast.
"If we want to live here on the coast then we have to provide a level of defense," Burks-Copes told CBS News."The intent here is to keep the surge that comes with hurricanes out in the gulf and not let it into the bay."
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