If you are from the region, you know all about the storm of 1900. It is the reason there is a sea wall. The island was completely under water. The storm hit at night. The survivors said you could hear the cry of people grow louder and then fade away as they were washed out into the gulf. Something like 10,000 people died. The story's that stuck with me was of the orphan's home and of people using hatchets to try broke though the celling to get to the second floor of their homes. Because they were trapped inside with the rising water. One can only imagine being in compete darkness with a hurricane that drop the barometric pressure lower than it has even been seen. A storm of raging hearing the cries of people as they are dying all around you. While you yourself are fighting to survive. Only to make it through the night to see total devastation as far as you can see. Then to have bodies washing up on shore for weeks.
@@JesseKonijnenberg Tell me what have the Dutch recently done? You are relying on your past glory, back when the Dutch were explorers and builders. Now they are a bunch of tree huggers with no real contribution except being a financial center for multimillion dollar corporations. Oh how far the Dutch have fallen.
@@alileevil About 20B will be spend on the updates of the delta plan over the next 10 years. Thats the design they copied here (and good on them) thats spending and building not just planning its a continues process. The good news is that we still seem to have money left to also make good roads for cars and bicycle paths.
@@alileevil funny🤣, although when i look at my window i can see them digging out drainage canals for a new housing district that is being build at the same time.(around 300 meters away from the big river that,s defended by that white behemoth.) and yes new bicycle paths leading to that new district as well of course..🤭 you can,t make war nor peace with water you can only hope for as many stalemates as possible.🏙⛈🌊
My mother's side of the family lived in Galveston when the 1900 storm hit. The family home was closer to the bay side of the island so was not destroyed by the storm surge due to the debris stopping the flow from coming closer. The house is still there, though it is no longer owned by the family. A lot of people don't realize that the seawall is more than double the visual height that can be seen today.
0:25 They are not doing this because of 'climate change' you absolute muppet. Texas has had horrific hurricanes since the early 1800's at least. They are hoping to prevent what they know has been an issue for CENTURIES. Gotta love people who dont even live in my state pretending like they know what they are talking about.
@@skinnie2838 they kind of are. These storms have gotten more severe and frequent, and will continue to get worse due to climate change. Whenever any city builds dams and levees to prepare, they are doing so to prevent flooding not just from higher sea levels but mostly more severe storms and flooding.
@@macaron3141592653 Haha, another lemming who bought into the propaganda. I have lived right next to the area mentioned in this video and the storms have always been like this. For at least half a century. And the records from this area show the same thing for the past few centuries. Take your propaganda elsewhere dumbo.
As soon as he said “You’ve probably never even heard of it. Galveston!” I immediately knew he wasn’t talking about Texas residence at all. Every body in Texas knows about Galveston.
Yeah he didnt even mention San Antonio when he was talking about major cities...what an idiot. Galveston is a major portway wtf is he talkibg about no one has heard of it???
Galveston has a long history of being hit by hurricanes. I remember visiting in the summer of 1984 and seeing a whole district near the beach where houses had been lifted off their stilts and destroyed the previous summer. In some areas, there were just the concrete pads where houses had been; in others, some of the stilts were left. A stark reminder of what had happened.
Right a long history you say but the narrator said recent climate change. However hurricanes have been cyclical ever since Sub Sahara Africa became a desert because of science but narrator said climate change. I do not doubt climate change but things are more complex and a thing called HISTORY. We will also if it actually gets built.
@@GEEZYEA777sinking land is empirically proveable. Man made climate change is not. Computer models are not proof. They’re just models. The two biggest hurricanes to ever hit Texas occurred 122 years ago and 138 years ago. Those are proveable facts.
When I bought my house in Spanish Grant (Galveston) gulf side in 1999 it was third row beach. In 2008 with Hurricane Ike, it became second row beach. I sold it in 2018 because I was getting too old to worry about some hurricane or tropical storm taking it out. I truly miss the place, but not the anxiety. Hope this will help folks and industry down there.
As a Dutchman I am proud that Dutch companies in water ingenuity are able to advise even countries as the US in how to deal with these immense flooding problems. Companies as Van Oord and Arcadis are worldwide known for their expertise. Again I see in this film almost exact copies of structures that have been build here in the Netherlands decades ago.
I'm from New Orleans, and they built massive pumps, waterways, levees, etc, for the big one. All worked well until the BIG ONE came, and it failed. In other worlds, no one knows the size of what will be the big one, but one will always be larger than what's built
@@IanCrouse failure because it was outside the parameters it was designed for. Here’s hoping Texas over engineers it. The Dutch designed the Delta Works to handle a 100K year storm, and even then they are still looking at design parameters and what needs to be done to upgrade.
It failed because they built the canals at sea level instead of having the canals at ground level in New Orleans and have the pumps at the lake to push it then to sea level. Also MRGO also was a giant Trojan Horse that captured storm surge and caused the flooding in the ninth 9 ward and the Industrial Canal.
@@RCorvinus Yes sir. That's why when I bought my house in Texas I looked at the flood maps very closely. 100 year storm wasn't good enough for me! I ended up choosing a property that was at least 50 feet higher than the valley below.
I went to Texas A&M in Galveston. They about 10 undergraduate degree programs. ALL of them required assessment and research of the coastal spine in some way, shape, or form. Lots of professors are published on this topic from environmental to economic impacts. I graduated in 2017 and 2018. It is crazy to see how all of the focus attention we put towards this as students has manifested itself into a multi-billion dollar project.
Yep, it's astonishing how just investing in education can help society. Oh well. The United States national education is going down the s****** and there's nothing that'll be done about it.
If it follows typical Texas trends when it comes to infrastructure construction, then it will take 2-3 decades past due and 3-4 times the initial estimated cost. Hell I remember seeing a highway construction project in San Antonio that started when I was 4 and didn't get completed till I was 25.
And all that is fine when it’s any of these projects with most people, but as soon as it’s rail infrastructure or public transit in general then it’s the spawn of satan and deserves no funding whatsoever.
Yep, should divest from fossil fuels instead, but they'll only realize their greed once it's too late. But hey, they can just sell their houses and move, amiright?
What do you mean by backfire. It won't make a hurricane worse but if you mean overconfidence in the system that leads to people staying in they're homes then maybe. But it should greatly reduce damage from hurricanes
Je moet ook voorbeeld nemen aan ons Nederlanders wij zijn 1 met de zee. Volg de golven en leert ze kennen en geef ruimte waar nodig. Watermanagement is vooruit denken hoe efficient, weerbaar, leefbaar we de toekomst verzekeren.
I live in the area, and been through Rita, Ike, and Harvey. Yeah, build the (sea)wall. If you never have experienced a hurricane, be happy. During Ike, after mandatory evacuations were issued, there were still people out on Bolivar that refused to evacuate. When the storm surge came in, they called for help. The Galveston PD told people out on Bolivar to write their SSN on their arms with magic markers because there was no way they could be rescued. (So they could be identified after drowning) That's the kind of storm a hurricane is. A sea wall will save lives.
Doesn't really matter as this planet gets more over populated. Those sea walls will not stop winds and heavy rain that causes flooding inland. As our population continues to keep growing, storms are only seen as worse as they affect more people and it's considered more costly. And as areas like that get more populated, it's much harder for those to evacuate and the storms are then considered more deadly. I've been thru many hurricanes myself but I do not live on the water for a reason. I live a good 40 minutes from any coastline and no sea wall will protect me from any major hurricane. When you've seen wind damage 100 miles away from the coast from a hurricane, you know there is nothing we can build to protect us from it.
@@Hayyyward I grew up in Beaumont, Texas, and today, I live in Galveston County. I've experienced multiple hurricanes. And here's some facts. Do you know Port Author is surrounded by a dyke? Did you know that dyke has protected Port Author many times in the past? Did you know that low level cities around the world that have used such systems have weathered Typhoons and Hurricanes just fine? Sure, there is flooding inland, but, that's nothing compared to a wall of water pushed in from the sea. IF that water is held back, then the flood water inland has somewhere to go dramatically reducing the level of floodwaters inland. Dykes have dramatically reduced flooding every time they've been tested. This isn't science fiction, its happened and its real and Texas needs a system like this.
@@b.thomas8926 It's all because of overpopulation and too much development right on our coasts. As I said, that wall will do nothing for wind damage and there will always be flooding inland. All the wall will do is help what is immediately on the coast but it will alter the coastlines that formed naturally to deal with storms and flooding. Humans altering it is why we have to keep on doing things like this.
Whenever a military corps of engineers gets to work on a big infrastructure project, I can't help but be reminded of Julius Caesar getting his own Roman engineers to work on his temporary bridge across the Rhine. Projects like that are so surreal.
GO TEXAS COAST!!! This will be beautiful and much needed! I know it's costing a LOT of money, but chances are it will save money in ways we cannot see! If it does its job, that will be magnificent and people, property, and businesses will be spared!
So you want my tax dollars to build over a billion dollar wall....to protect the wealthiest Americans with their millions of dollars of waterfront properties.....and I spend $20,000 a year on health insurance.....?
@@sailorman92704 I hear ya and can totally relate. I can't rub two pennies together being as I live on a 1 acre piece of oceanfront property in the desert in West Texas. Not too many can afford health insurance out here unless they were blessed to hang onto their jobs. I would help with the wall if I could...I'd do a lot of things to help save our drilling and production industry! This oil field raised my kids and gave my family a good living. It's all gone out here now.
@@sailorman92704 get a job that provides health insurance. There are PLENTY of jobs that will provide health insurance to you. Health insurance is also a problem stemming from Obamacare, so if you ever voted for that idiot, reap what you sew. I pay ZERO for my health insurance and get fantastic healthcare in Texas :)
@moby1kanob.... then you won't have any problem paying for your own seawall...instead of mooching off hardworking Americans taxes living across the country. BTW Americans pay twice what other wealthy countries pay for healthcare. So tell me about the great health insurance republicans are offering? .... oh... that's right.....Republicans have no plans.....republiCons have threatened for years to get rid of obamacare but have offered nothing....many republicans dont want to get rid of obamacare. It's the best game in town.....over 35 million Americans are on obamacare. Republicans don't know how to govern just b!tch about how awful it is here in America.....SO LEAVE!
@@sailorman92704 I mean, Houston is famous for flooding and this would prevent a lot of that. I know people who are not wealthy and lost everything to flooding. This will protect everyone in Houston.
i was there for IKE, I was going to school at galveston college at the time and everything on the seawall was gone after the storm. We also went to Galveston every summer and any time it rained the city pretty much always flooded which is why im happy to see new drainage and pumps in the plan.
I remember it flooding bad by GC. I remember one time it poured down rain for a couple hours and my car was parked across the street to the east. That roadway was flooded and I saw at least a dozen cars stall out and float while trying to traverse it. I waited an hour but the water never receded and I had to get to my car and the water was quite literally balls deep when i walked through. Just from a couple hours of rain. A big part of the issue was clogged drains (for decades). A lot of work has been put into fixing this. Harborside doesn't flood like it used to anymore. It was shitty city management responsible for the flooding.
Wow. It's an exact copy of what we Dutch call "Deltawerken" (Deltaworks). Our defence system against the sea. It only looks slightly more modern. But, same idea, and hopefully it works out for Texas or even other area's. If not, raise more dykes and design and install more valves until the system works. I'm actually very proud to see the Deltaworks being adapted by the USA. 👏
Louisiana has already built one. It was built after Katrina to keep surge out of the river, which in turns keeps it out of lake Pontchartrain that feeds the canals that had the levee failures to create the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina.
It's no joke. I have family in Galveston and visited the beach once in the early 90s, and again in the early 2000s. There's this narrow strip of sand where there used to be a decent sized beach.
Texas is the largest green energy producer in the US…we can talk about complete decarbonization when the rest of the US stops begging for its oil addiction. Until then, blaming Texas for the nationwide (and worldwide) issue is ridiculous
@@nottawa86"And deprive me of mah God Given Raht ter drive a 6.7 litre v10 truck dahn ter the store ter get a hayaff gallern o milk whenever ah wanna? Goddam pinko subversive commie bastard "....... well, good luck with that, or in other words it ain't gunna happen........sadly.
I've always wondered about our ability to extend coasts and barriers by just going inland and dumping dirt off the coast. Especially with places like CA, though we have no serious storm issues and hurricanes as a reliable threat, we do have coastal erosion and really step elevation from the coast, it would be easy to "take some off the top" and relocate that. Maybe develop something like a "mud pipeline". from higher elevation areas. We could also easily do water pipelines from the coast and desalination plants and run that into higher deserts to solve almost every case of drought issues and increase real estate value of a mostly value-less desert.
Desalination takes a lot of effort, but might be doable. I know in the Netherlands along the coast are many things to help the beaches with coastal erosion. That includes structures in the water, but also planting beach grass and creating/protecting dunes. There’s also ships that suck sand from deeper in the sea onto beaches/closer to beaches. Those dunes also function as storm barriers.
If it were easy, California would have massive desalination plants in place already. California loves cheap potable and agricultural grade water. Among other things, it’s very energy intensive when you add all the membrane compression, pumping demands, etc up. The reason it’s common in the Middle East is all the cheap oil nearby lets them do thermal distillation at a price they can tolerate.
Im currently on a work assignment here Amsterdam and I drive every day to the Port of IJmuiden and I see these navigating gates, very impressive structures. I hope Houston(I’m from Katy) adopts this technology to protect our city.
IJmuiden is impressive, how Amsterdam got access to the sea, an ongoing project, the new wider gates now! Houston needs the same solution, are the taxpayers willing to understand it ?
H-town represent haha. I'm from Katy too but it's just Houston to those outside of east Texas. Yeah Netherlands have been reclaiming land for centuries with windmill pumps and their civil engineering is impressive. I would say our system of hundreds of miles of huge bayous is pretty impressive too if I'm being honest
@Martial Cabo lost tax revenue from homes worth a lot less after Harvey. We survived Harvey and Ike, except for some pieces of fence knocked down. We are located near I-10 and Houston Tollway, 2 miles from Memorial Hospital and shopping mall. House values have sky rocketed. Never had flooding or wind damage on our street. Lucky. so far.
@@lucasremno since Amsterdam and Texas are like comparing a house to one of the worlds greatest buildings 😂 Netherlands has terminal demographics as well where they have more older people than young and low birthrates and one of the reasons is because they have high taxes so no I hope Thai doesn’t happen in Texas
@@Geoff9001not really impressive about the Netherlands system 😂 and comparing it to Texas is pretty funny since Texas has a much larger economy thanks to its great technology
I live 2 blocks from the location at 7:01. My family never left Galveston for any hurricane, including Ike in 2008. After the 1900 Storm they built the Seawall, which is about 17 feet tall facing the Gulf of Mexico for about 100 blocks. Then they did the Grade Raising, where they filled in the entire island by about 9 feet, jacking up all the surviving buildings, including cathedrals, mansions, businesses and small homes. This took about 14 years. The storm surge came in from the Bay side, where the flooding was as much as 10 feet in Ike, though less as you go towards the Seawall, as the island drains to the bay. Along Broadway the flooding was about 4 feet. The cost of the Ike Dike is projected to be less than the insurance claims paid out in Hurricane Ike alone, so the sooner we get it the better. New Orleans got billions of dollars in levees and storm protection tight after Hurricane Katrina, yet we haven't had any building yet. You can go visit the county history museum and see the jewelry and other personal effects of victims from the 1900 storm. Galveston has a long history, and our property values continue to increase every year. Most homes are now being built to at least 20 feet above sea level now, or even more. We're just a sand bar 3x30 miles long, but we'll survive one way or another.
@@patrickbaptist8233 So let another hurricanes storm surge hit and do $30 billion worth of damage? Oh that $30 billion seawall would have helped right about now. It will pay for itself.
@@patrickbaptist8233 You know what drove up costs? Printing trillions during a bs pandemic. Did that money contribute to anything beneficial? No it just went to stimulus checks people bought TVs and beer with.
@@patrickbaptist8233 Defense budget is around 700b a year, a couple trillion on stimulus is a much more massive waste than actually using $ for something tangible.
I wish them all the luck! Here in the Netherlands engineers have come around from switching to mega dykes immediatelly though. Why? they cost a huuuge amount of money , effort and ecological worth and sometimes just move the problem to another area (I know in New Orleans they built massive floodworks but now the floods just go further inland targetting less populated (but still populated) areas). A lot of times it's easier and cheaper to work with your environment. Like strengthening excisting dunes, marshes or mangroves (if you live somewhere they grow). Or move around or adapt your cities to the moving coastline. Why not accept the sea is sometimes more powerfull then humans? We don't have to 'conquer' or 'defeat' it
Are you actually a Dutch person talking about adapting to the land? You've got to be kidding. Large portions of your country shouldn't exist. You're a bit late to talk about mangroves of all things.
@@aluisious yes I am. Why shouldn't we be able to talk about our wrongs? Just the fact that we have allready been through it all and can talk from experience means our views are worth something. Saying you can't talk about something just because you did a bad in the past is just ridiculous
@@aluisious It's a huge thing in the water sector nowadays. 'Soft' protection as opposed to 'hard' protection. And passive over active. Once you combine soft with passive you get nature based solutions, or stuff like the 'Haakse zeedijk'.
They kind of buried the lead as they say in the news business. Indeed they are protecting the city of Galveston and some other residential areas, but they are also protecting the petroleum and chemical plants of Texas City and the banks of the Trinity Bay. They process over 2 million barrels of oil every day plus produce a lot of chemicals from oil and natural gas. It’s billions in revenue every week. Plus we export millions of barrels of oil and refined products out of this area.
The biggest need as well to Galveston, and I am in the area, is a need for a traffic route connecting between Bolivar and Galveston island. And bolivar needs their highway improved from a 2 lane to at least a 4-6 lane for evacuation routes. Houston is so huge now that taking the I45 corridor to get out is really hard when you’re on the south side. We need routes heading east, the only way to cross is a slow ferry system that can take 1-3 hours depending on traffic and time of year.
This, on Thanksgiving the power lines on the Bolivar side shorted and we sat there for 3 hours. They're buying another ferry soon for $40M, converting the others to diesel hybrid, and spend about $50M annually between the two ferry systems in the state according to txdot. The Baytown Bridge is similar in length and height to what would be needed in Galveston and cost about $250M adjusted for inflation...
@Martial Cabo the rail infrastructure already exists, just copy what Brightline did in Florida, spend a little time and money repairing and improving the existing track, then you'd have a system that not only moves more people faster then the existing 10 lane highway, but also removes traffic from said highway
I mean, if you're going to build something this massive. It's a very smart idea to get ideas and help from countries that have implemented similar or identical systems with success lol - bravo to A&M for finding some help to make realistic plans
Yeah, no need to reinvent the wheel. There’s a lot of expertise all around the world, ready to be tapped into. Being Dutch I look forward to seeing the end product, how it might be different to the ones we have here, considering Texas deals with different weather than the Netherlands.
I'm from Houston and have been to Galveston many times. Too bad it has some really rough/delapidated areas in the middle of the island. The east and west ends are very nice.
@@stevesherman5761 most people live in coastal areas. There is always something to endure. Whether it's hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, drought, etc. You sound ignorant and I obviously hit the nail on the head by pointing out your lack of empathy even for your own family. No one worth their salt asked for any help. We actually help each other without being asked because we have empathy. Your kind isn't welcome here, so we can all be happy that you chose to live elsewhere.
@Steve Sherman There's still plenty of industry and commerce in Galveston. It's not entirely a resort town as all the features that made it an attractive port are still there.
@@stevesherman5761 bro this isnt even up for a debate it is a well studied fact, almost as well proven as climate change even, and as we all know, climate change is completely agreed upon.
@@stevesherman5761 In 2018, the illegal immigrant criminal conviction rate was 782 per 100,000 illegal immigrants, 535 per 100,000 legal immigrants, and 1,422 per 100,000 native‐born Americans. - the numbers do not lie.
Met a US Navy chick and she was a complete jerk. Assuming me being jealous for not being in the military or not being accecpted into. What a total joke. The seniors are already retiring and the army is being replaced by juvenile karens and ts as well. I highly doubt it would stand a chance against other armies at this point. Especially asian ones which are just fierce on the battlefield.
I live in central Texas but my family and I go to Port Aransas every summer on vacation and it's sad to see some places are still rebuilding to 100 % capacity and some places we liked to eat or go just folded up shop and moved. Mother Nature does her own thing and we no different than creatures can do no more than learn, overcome and try to adapt to her will.
Sure, In The Netherlands we have been doing well for decades. This is essentially a copy paste of the Delta works in Zeeland and the Measlantkering In Rotterdam. Just saying, you Americans are years behind on what can and honestly should have been done.
Guy 1 : *sees dude building a wall in the desert* Guy 1 : " why you buildin' that wall here?" Guy 2 : "to keep these guys out of my country that i don't like" Guy 1 : "well....I don't like the ocean very much..." Guy 2 : "Wall it up!"
Texas storms are orders of magnitudes larger than little Rotterdam storms, is one problem. The other problem is that Harvey flooded the ship channel from above
These structures are specifically designed to handle the most extreme of storms. You're not designing from scratch 22 metre tall, 6800 ton steel arms to handle measly storms. Their magnitude design was 'once in 10000 years' storms.
People always talk about things in Texas being big, but never fail to forget San Antonio, which is a beautiful historic city and the 2nd biggest in the state behind Houston.
Dallas is the true 2nd largest city in Texas. San Antonio simply annexed more land to boost its population. Dallas County alone still has more people than the entire San Antonio metro area.
@@kronk9418 How? Dallas - 1,304,379 (339.6 sq mi of land) Dallas County - 2,613,539 (873.06 sq mi of land) DFW Area - 7,637,387 (8,675 sq mi) San Antonio - 1,434,625 (498.85 sq mi of land) Bexar County - 2,009,324 (1,240 sq mi of land) San Antonio Metro area - 2,558,143 (7,387 sq mi) Numbers from 2020. Clearly Dallas is the much larger city by these stats.
San Antonio has not much of value to offer to be honest, unlike Houston and Austin. The north parts of San Antonio and the Hill Country are nice, and there's some good spots in downtown and around the city center, but other than that it's not got much going for it. If you think San Antonio is nice and historic, you've never been to Europe. It's a dump, like most American cities with only a few good streets that are worth walking.
My grandfather was a young boy when Hurricane Ike hit in 1900. He managed to survive by clinging to the causeway. He later worked for the Irish gang who controlled gambling.
The Maceo Brothers controlled organized crime in Galveston... they were Sicilian. They ran The Balinese Room off the Seawall which was destroyed during Ike. There's a story that Al Capone once sent one of his guys to Galveston to see about taking control of it... and The Maceo's mailed his head back to Chicago.
Climate change has no effect on size and frequency of hurricanes. If you feel like more damage is done by hurricanes each year, its probably because more and more people are moving to many of the hurricane-prone regions of the US.
In Texas, I figured they would go for mass prayers or something like that. It would be a lot cheaper. I know that was their official policy for dealing with drought back in 2011. The governor issued a proclamation calling for days of prayer against the drought. It wasn't effective, but it was cheap.
Have a water problem? Ask the Dutch. Seems they are opting in Texas for a 'Deltawerken' (Delta works) inspired design It's proven effective, good choice
It's also interesting to note that Americans continue to build houses on coastlines that are not up to facing the elements. It's like trying to keep a cardboard box from blowing away in the wind. Take a note from the Italians: build out of brick and concrete...
Brick and concrete won’t save you from the storm surge and water damage. Also it’s not just the wind that is blowing, it’s what’s in the wind that’s blowing. If a hurricane is strong enough to pick up something as heavy as a tree and turn into a ballistic missile, brick and concrete also doesn’t stand a chance. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 that this video already mentioned absolutely destroyed the entire city including most brick and concrete and stone buildings.
Flood insurance laws are in part to blame. FL (and I believe Texas) have laws which make it illegal to charge a fair price for flood insurance based on the chance of a hurricane destroying your house. The federal govt has to pick up the shortfall every time a hurricane comes through, and then residents are welcome to rebuild on the same storm-tossed coastline that just got destroyed.
@@spaguettoltd.7933 If you have a mortgage for coastal/beachfront home in Texas, state law allows the lender to escrow flood insurance. And they will. And it is not cheap. You will have to carry 3 insurances - Flood, Windstorm and homeowners. You will prob pay as much for the insurance and taxes as you do you your mortgage.
@@SansNeural The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The same people who've been bringing you dams, locks, levees, dikes, bridges, seawalls and other large-scale water engineering projects for, oh, about a quarter of a millennia.
I'm a towboat Captain primarily in the port of Houston and Galveston like the few shown in your video. I'm also a born and raised south Texan and have been in industry for 27 years, this is the first I've heard about this project and very curious how it's going to affect my job. The five way intersection where the flood gates are going to be placed is one of the busiest in the country with hundreds of vessels passes one way or other daily, very interesting to say the least.
It's not gonna happen just because of that...this is all BS. The only thing that needs to change is the rest of the country's ignorance about the Gulf Coast.
@K B What? First of all, nobody said the traffic has anything to do with the project. I'm simply pointing out how I'm not familiar with the project and at the same time extremely knowledgeable about the area. I don't know what vast knowledge you claim to have about the Gulf Coast, but I'm 100% sure the experts know far more than you ever will. Not to be a jerk, but you sound pretty ignorant.
@@Jacob-ed1bl I think you underestamate the sheer size of this project. Yes you might need a detour you cant cut off close the coastline anymore, but 2 container ships could move through this with relative ease. and there's 2 of them. I get your concerns though. As someone from the netherlands i can tell you with all my heart. Its better to have a little added difficulty with boats then having millions of people flooded. We deal with water like nobody else does and and this is out of a pure need. In 1953 our small country got absolutely demolished by floods. Also it might actually increase your workload. Most of rotterdam cannot be entered by big ships, they have to be tugged. The chance of someone hitting the Delta works and breaking them is simply too high. i have no sense of scale how far this is away from houston, but theres a reasonable chance they'd have to be tugged the entire way.
@Shosher I understand the size of the project, but I don't think you understand the amount of traffic that goes through that location, and driving vessels isn't like driving a car. It's an extremely difficult location as it is, so saying "a little more difficulty" could lead to major catastrophe. Regardless, it's being built, and we'll deal with it.
I'm sure after the Texas City Disaster in 1947, the Galveston Bay has been thriving serious production since it's reconstruction. Money won't be hard to come by for a major port like this one.
@@conradnelson5283 unfortunately it's a much faster rate than that, and the rate itself is accelerating. Sea level in San Francisco bay has come up seven inches in the last century and the rate is increasing. King tides have consistently been several inches higher than predicted according to standard models, the last few years. I live on the ocean and can see this rise myself. The ocean is changing
@@conradnelson5283 you didn't think the climate changes at the same rate over time, did you? The climate fluctuates over time in reaction to a great variety of drivers, one of which is atmospheric chemistry.
nah, its texas, they didn't think that hard. They said what is the best way to protect our oil fields and keep the flow going and the money coming....anything that benefited other people is just a side effect from them not thinking things through texas is a land of idiots. In marfa one year, they had a veterans day parade, a flatbed truck full of ww2 vets, vietnam vets, all old. That truck stopped on a train track, a train came and no one even tried to get off, move or save their life in any way, AT ALL...they are idiots, the smart ones move away.
@@mimcduffee86 Well given how well the "green" Windmills and shutting down natural gas power plants worked for them last winter when they got hit with a big freeze and chunks of the power grid collapsed because of it, wouldn't you be suspicious of "green" projects when you just saw a bunch of people DIE in the name of Renewable Energy?
Tidal, solar and wind. However as others have said. No, this is Texas. Although I find it baffling that a nation so fiercely proud and independant wouldn't take the opportunity to use any resource possible in order to be less reliant on other nations for its energy.
You mentioned the Seawall. it was another huge project. Especially when raising the grade of the portion of tlhe island behind the Seawall. Buildings and utilities were jacked up and sludge pumped in. Initially funded by Galveston. Houston paid for the Ship Channel. Galveston had a hard time distributing cargo with one railroad bridge. Hiuston's motto was Where The Railroads Meet the Sea. Lined with petrochemical plants because loading tankers directly is better than building more pipelines The Bush sprout tried to use the Land Office to begin another wonderful Bush political career. He failed...
@@moby1kanob Maybe i would say it when i prepare myself a hamburger. Food has much more of a cultural aspect to it then for example a tech product. While in this video it's about a certain construction technique. One that became an importand part of our culture.
Took you long enough. As a Dutch person myself, I've always found it baffling that nothing is done even after multiple devastating floods. Especially since there's a country with a wealth of expertise on the subject. Now we just have to wait for new York to flood before they start their own project.
Mostly because the devastation wasn't that devastating in the grand scheme of things. Most of the problem is poverty. The people writing building codes aren't stupid, weather events are common enough that resiliency is baked into the building codes. The problems mostly arise in poor areas where building codes get ignored, cheap materials get subbed in, and people don't do the necessary maintenance/repair of their property. e.g. I grew up in coastal New England and hurricane force Nor'Easters happen every year. If you walk through the older neighborhoods near the water, "Ground Level" is about 6 feet above the street, and about 10-12 feet above sea level for that reason. For comparison, look at the relative impacts of Maria and Ian (similarly intense storms) hitting Puerto Rico and Florida respectively.
@@Giffandy5329 There is very little resiliency against water though. Especially salt water. Not to mention the fact that a lot of houses in the US are made of wood and not stone. And then there is the infrastructure. Roads, bridges, electricity poles and substations, the sewage system etc. All of these things are affected by floods. The damage goes way beyond that of human lives or their house.
It's infuriating that $31 b is considered a lot of money in a tourism city in an oil and gas state in a 1st place globally defense budget country. That's a drop in the bucket of the money available. And considering the rebuilding costs of damaged property lately.....an overdue no brainer.
Omg you finally talked about Galveston! Finally felt seen for once. Is it possible if you could make more videos on Houston? We are the 4th largest city in the US after all.
@@leogarcia12515Austin also recently got *another* supertall proposal that will beat out the Waterline. Excited to see what more comes to the Austin skyline in the next decade
Exactly! Moreover you can also spend a fraction of that money to plant and develop a mangroves forest over there which will only act as natural line of defense. But then it's A MERIKHA!! 🤷
I think one of the issues is that the barrier island isn’t sufficient enough and Houston needs surge barriers to prevent a rush of water flooding the city again
I just read Neal Stephenson's novel Termination Shock this year, which prominently features the Maeslantkering which this looks to be modeled on. Unbelievably huge project but probably cheaper than moving millions of people and businesses inland.
Looks nice hope it gets passed, we definitely need to help are coasts. South padre island is a dam nice beach and not many people know about it in the rest of the country.
@Frank MacLeod I think the beaches here are great. Especially the ones in very low populated ares and you can drive for miles sometimes and not see another person. Who wants to go to a beach that has thousands of people crammed on it?
@@vinceruland9236 Sounds like it is here in California. I like the empty ones myself. Just gotta stay out of the big cities, like everywhere else. I can't imagine the beaches in Galveston are exactly empty
@Frank MacLeod no, def not in Galveston. I like to surf fish, so I go to virtually empty beaches where I can drive the beach until there's nobody around. In south Padre Island, it's like a 60 mile drive down the beach and you're literally alone. So nice. The only beaches in Cali I've been to are all the ones in SD.
You wanna talk about BAD power grids look at California and NYC, they can barely go a week without rolling brownouts and black outs with perfectly fine weather...now THAT is bad!! Texas Power Grid has ONE outing when it got to 0 degrees Fahrenheit and you think its an actual problem. Texas energy runs perfectly fine 99.999999999% of the time and the last time it got that cold was 30+ years ago. You don't know what you are talking about. I live in Dallas and actually never lost power once during that whole mega freeze. I have not been without power in a storm, or any other reason in over a decade. DFW, Texas Power grid is solid as a rock.... Also, now that we had a FREAK nature occurrence happen, promise you that will never happen again, Texas learns from past problems, unlike California, NY, Oregon, Washington State, etc etc etc...
@@moby1kanob I lived in NYC and never had to used back-up power sources for my computer like here in Dallas. I recalled only 2 while in NYC in 30 years, while in TX we're considering a back up generator.
It’s an awesome idea! The Tx utility companies need to pitch in in the forms of taxes ! Utilities have been racking in huge profits for years but didn’t invest in infrastructure! Instead utilities padded the pockets of CEO, CFO, COO executives instead 😉
Getting Centerpoint energy in texas to do anything isn't even comparable to pulling teeth. They're the absolute worst as far as customer service and their brotherhood of electricians are fanatical zealots that regular treat customers worse than their call center
I've been to Galveston, and I fell in love with it. I live in Dallas and I would love to go back, but for now all I can do is save my money and then I can go down to Galveston in about another year. If the US government would make China pay us back the trillions of dollars that they owe us, then the safety measures could be built.
I came here to learn how to trade after listening to a guy on radio talk about the importance of investing and how he made $460,000 in 4 months from $160k. Somehow this video has helped shed light on some things, but I'm confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas.
@@gabriellewilson5625 I’ve been on both end of the spectrum, I was lnvesting on my own for about 3years, did my own study and analysis before actually buying, things became rather difficult after the pandemic which was right about when I reached out to a portfoIio-advisor for guidance, It’s been over 2 years and I’ve scaled up a stagnant reserve of $280K to $700k in just about 24months.
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@@davidnewbury1721 I am being guided by "Tracy Helene Aalvik" who I found on a CNBC interview where she was featured and reached out to her. She has since provided entry and exit points on the securities I focus on. You can look her up online if you care supervision.
Um, Texas has set itself back with its leadership famously resisting any infrastructure improvements within the state. Sort of a big ask for 65 Billion when they cannot be bothered to show basic competence with their..electric grid. While being stewards of their coastal and inland waterways is smart and proactive and this makes sense, im not confident Texans are responsible enough to merit the investment.
The problem with Galveston is that it can be flooded also from the back side. Harvey proved this. Also, water can do an end around thru San Luis Pass on the Island's west end. Even if San Luis had a similar lock, the land to the west is only a few feet above sea level. East of Galveston, the coast to the east are just as low all the way to Beaumont. Thus, where does the project stop?
It won't stop that is the key. It will have endless funding. It is projected to take 20 years, which means it will likely take a century. By the time we die, nobody will know when the project had started and what its goal is. It will just be to launder money. The "spine" isn't even water proof. It will allow water past it but cut down on the power of the waves. The power of the waves is irrelevant when the waters rise 10 feet. The same damage will be done.
@@woofpuppy And what about those islands placed in the channel that will house the gates? Those would be a hazard to navigation and increase the speed of tidal currents.
Texas could finance the bill overnight if they implemented a tax on people who move to Texas and complain about it not being like where they came from even though they left for a reason. Love to see the state developing new infrastructure
Yes they could, but they want the money of middle class and poor people, that’s much easier and saves them from complaining rich folks. Poor and middle class people don’t have connections, rich people do. So rich people know where to go with their complaints against higher taxes. And how to smoothen the paths with party donations, towards the governor, majority leader, senate leader, minister or president, so they can address their grievances to the most influential people. It’s an uneven battle.
If you are from the region, you know all about the storm of 1900. It is the reason there is a sea wall. The island was completely under water. The storm hit at night. The survivors said you could hear the cry of people grow louder and then fade away as they were washed out into the gulf. Something like 10,000 people died. The story's that stuck with me was of the orphan's home and of people using hatchets to try broke though the celling to get to the second floor of their homes. Because they were trapped inside with the rising water. One can only imagine being in compete darkness with a hurricane that drop the barometric pressure lower than it has even been seen. A storm of raging hearing the cries of people as they are dying all around you. While you yourself are fighting to survive. Only to make it through the night to see total devastation as far as you can see. Then to have bodies washing up on shore for weeks.
Dang
You forgot the shingles that were torn from rooftops and could slice straight through a human
Maybe that's not the best place to live
Shit bro straight out of a horror story
Totally agree, we Texans know about the horrible hurricane of 1900, heard it back when I was a kid and visiting Galveston.
Good to hear the Dutch are an inspiration. They've been doing this kind of thing for a long time and have been incredibly successful
Too bad all they do now is ride bicycles and build new bicycle paths.
@@alileevil Yeah and that's a good thing, car dependency sucks.
@@JesseKonijnenberg Tell me what have the Dutch recently done? You are relying on your past glory, back when the Dutch were explorers and builders. Now they are a bunch of tree huggers with no real contribution except being a financial center for multimillion dollar corporations. Oh how far the Dutch have fallen.
@@alileevil About 20B will be spend on the updates of the delta plan over the next 10 years. Thats the design they copied here (and good on them) thats spending and building not just planning its a continues process. The good news is that we still seem to have money left to also make good roads for cars and bicycle paths.
@@alileevil funny🤣, although when i look at my window i can see them digging out drainage canals for a new housing district that is being build at the same time.(around 300 meters away from the big river that,s defended by that white behemoth.)
and yes new bicycle paths leading to that new district as well of course..🤭
you can,t make war nor peace with water you can only hope for as many stalemates as possible.🏙⛈🌊
My mother's side of the family lived in Galveston when the 1900 storm hit. The family home was closer to the bay side of the island so was not destroyed by the storm surge due to the debris stopping the flow from coming closer. The house is still there, though it is no longer owned by the family. A lot of people don't realize that the seawall is more than double the visual height that can be seen today.
Interesting, thank you
As a dutch person, I would like to say to the people of Texas: "I see you like our technology! You're welcome! Enjoy and may it keep you safe!"
same
I'm sorry but Texans don't like foreigners so they would never thank you. They would claim they invented it and you stole it (somehow).
You are not dutch. Maybe mixed ancestry at best.
In the 80s Dutch learned from texans. It's a cycle.
As a Texan, you don't own, nor did you invent sea walls....
When they said “Texas is defending its coast line in the only way it knows how” I thought they were going to say “by building a wall” 😂😂
We need a wall the higher the longer the better
they pretty much are
0:25 They are not doing this because of 'climate change' you absolute muppet. Texas has had horrific hurricanes since the early 1800's at least. They are hoping to prevent what they know has been an issue for CENTURIES. Gotta love people who dont even live in my state pretending like they know what they are talking about.
@@skinnie2838 they kind of are. These storms have gotten more severe and frequent, and will continue to get worse due to climate change. Whenever any city builds dams and levees to prepare, they are doing so to prevent flooding not just from higher sea levels but mostly more severe storms and flooding.
@@macaron3141592653 Haha, another lemming who bought into the propaganda. I have lived right next to the area mentioned in this video and the storms have always been like this. For at least half a century. And the records from this area show the same thing for the past few centuries. Take your propaganda elsewhere dumbo.
As soon as he said “You’ve probably never even heard of it. Galveston!” I immediately knew he wasn’t talking about Texas residence at all. Every body in Texas knows about Galveston.
And us oldies know about it because of the song by Glenn Campbell.
Yeah he didnt even mention San Antonio when he was talking about major cities...what an idiot. Galveston is a major portway wtf is he talkibg about no one has heard of it???
Certainly nobody outside of the U.S. knows about Galveston
I have never heard f anyone who had not. As An American no texan
Galveston has a long history of being hit by hurricanes. I remember visiting in the summer of 1984 and seeing a whole district near the beach where houses had been lifted off their stilts and destroyed the previous summer. In some areas, there were just the concrete pads where houses had been; in others, some of the stilts were left. A stark reminder of what had happened.
Right a long history you say but the narrator said recent climate change. However hurricanes have been cyclical ever since Sub Sahara Africa became a desert because of science but narrator said climate change. I do not doubt climate change but things are more complex and a thing called HISTORY. We will also if it actually gets built.
@@patrickobrienboling2837 he litteraly said ".. a threat that is becoming more severe due to climate change.."
@@aldinklaiqi7808 fair point.
Galveston oh Galveston! Good song. City was wiped out in early 20th century
@@GEEZYEA777sinking land is empirically proveable. Man made climate change is not. Computer models are not proof. They’re just models.
The two biggest hurricanes to ever hit Texas occurred 122 years ago and 138 years ago. Those are proveable facts.
When I bought my house in Spanish Grant (Galveston) gulf side in 1999 it was third row beach. In 2008 with Hurricane Ike, it became second row beach. I sold it in 2018 because I was getting too old to worry about some hurricane or tropical storm taking it out. I truly miss the place, but not the anxiety. Hope this will help folks and industry down there.
Yes of course ❤
buy inland house
wait till others wash away
sell your new beachfront house for millions
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@@carijun hello dear 😍😍
@@stellawiller hello stella any social medias??? Lol
As a Dutchman I am proud that Dutch companies in water ingenuity are able to advise even countries as the US in how to deal with these immense flooding problems. Companies as Van Oord and Arcadis are worldwide known for their expertise. Again I see in this film almost exact copies of structures that have been build here in the Netherlands decades ago.
I'm from New Orleans, and they built massive pumps, waterways, levees, etc, for the big one. All worked well until the BIG ONE came, and it failed. In other worlds, no one knows the size of what will be the big one, but one will always be larger than what's built
Correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that those levees were rated for a 100 year storm. And Katrina was a helluva lot more than that.
@@RCorvinus true. it was a huge storm but the system was a catastrophic failure.
@@IanCrouse failure because it was outside the parameters it was designed for. Here’s hoping Texas over engineers it. The Dutch designed the Delta Works to handle a 100K year storm, and even then they are still looking at design parameters and what needs to be done to upgrade.
It failed because they built the canals at sea level instead of having the canals at ground level in New Orleans and have the pumps at the lake to push it then to sea level. Also MRGO also was a giant Trojan Horse that captured storm surge and caused the flooding in the ninth 9 ward and the Industrial Canal.
@@RCorvinus Yes sir. That's why when I bought my house in Texas I looked at the flood maps very closely. 100 year storm wasn't good enough for me! I ended up choosing a property that was at least 50 feet higher than the valley below.
I _died_ when he said Army _Corpse_ of Engineers
Hey man, dead engineers need work too.
*Corps
Yes. English accent:successful. Mispronunciation of American English: unsuccessful.
$31B....after decades of delays and inflation....will be $50 TRILLION!
Same. I'm glad someone else noticed it.
I went to Texas A&M in Galveston. They about 10 undergraduate degree programs. ALL of them required assessment and research of the coastal spine in some way, shape, or form. Lots of professors are published on this topic from environmental to economic impacts. I graduated in 2017 and 2018. It is crazy to see how all of the focus attention we put towards this as students has manifested itself into a multi-billion dollar project.
Yep, it's astonishing how just investing in education can help society. Oh well. The United States national education is going down the s****** and there's nothing that'll be done about it.
Reading this comment in Atlantic Hall right now
Destroying the environment on the coast is pure stupidity.
@DLM123 Progressives have been successful in destroying our universities.
IKR!
If it follows typical Texas trends when it comes to infrastructure construction, then it will take 2-3 decades past due and 3-4 times the initial estimated cost. Hell I remember seeing a highway construction project in San Antonio that started when I was 4 and didn't get completed till I was 25.
The highways in San Antonio are still getting worked on.
@@nottherealjk Yeah I know. I'm just referencing those stacked bypasses just past the airport exit.
And all that is fine when it’s any of these projects with most people, but as soon as it’s rail infrastructure or public transit in general then it’s the spawn of satan and deserves no funding whatsoever.
And how is that unique to Texas? You don’t get out much.
Lol, we're still waiting on this MF harbor bridge in Corpus Christi
Feel like this is only gonna backfire. Mother Nature is very strong
Yep, should divest from fossil fuels instead, but they'll only realize their greed once it's too late. But hey, they can just sell their houses and move, amiright?
agreed
And yet we have to be very careful not to kill the old hag on accident. We got this.
What do you mean by backfire. It won't make a hurricane worse but if you mean overconfidence in the system that leads to people staying in they're homes then maybe. But it should greatly reduce damage from hurricanes
Je moet ook voorbeeld nemen aan ons Nederlanders wij zijn 1 met de zee.
Volg de golven en leert ze kennen en geef ruimte waar nodig. Watermanagement is vooruit denken hoe efficient, weerbaar, leefbaar we de toekomst verzekeren.
I live in the area, and been through Rita, Ike, and Harvey. Yeah, build the (sea)wall. If you never have experienced a hurricane, be happy. During Ike, after mandatory evacuations were issued, there were still people out on Bolivar that refused to evacuate. When the storm surge came in, they called for help. The Galveston PD told people out on Bolivar to write their SSN on their arms with magic markers because there was no way they could be rescued. (So they could be identified after drowning) That's the kind of storm a hurricane is. A sea wall will save lives.
Doesn't really matter as this planet gets more over populated. Those sea walls will not stop winds and heavy rain that causes flooding inland. As our population continues to keep growing, storms are only seen as worse as they affect more people and it's considered more costly. And as areas like that get more populated, it's much harder for those to evacuate and the storms are then considered more deadly. I've been thru many hurricanes myself but I do not live on the water for a reason. I live a good 40 minutes from any coastline and no sea wall will protect me from any major hurricane. When you've seen wind damage 100 miles away from the coast from a hurricane, you know there is nothing we can build to protect us from it.
@@Hayyyward I grew up in Beaumont, Texas, and today, I live in Galveston County. I've experienced multiple hurricanes. And here's some facts. Do you know Port Author is surrounded by a dyke? Did you know that dyke has protected Port Author many times in the past? Did you know that low level cities around the world that have used such systems have weathered Typhoons and Hurricanes just fine? Sure, there is flooding inland, but, that's nothing compared to a wall of water pushed in from the sea. IF that water is held back, then the flood water inland has somewhere to go dramatically reducing the level of floodwaters inland. Dykes have dramatically reduced flooding every time they've been tested. This isn't science fiction, its happened and its real and Texas needs a system like this.
@@b.thomas8926 It's all because of overpopulation and too much development right on our coasts. As I said, that wall will do nothing for wind damage and there will always be flooding inland. All the wall will do is help what is immediately on the coast but it will alter the coastlines that formed naturally to deal with storms and flooding. Humans altering it is why we have to keep on doing things like this.
@@Hayyyward The world is doomed, gotcha. It's amazing you can get up in the morning.
Whenever a military corps of engineers gets to work on a big infrastructure project, I can't help but be reminded of Julius Caesar getting his own Roman engineers to work on his temporary bridge across the Rhine. Projects like that are so surreal.
Or the wall within a wall
It's the hallmark of human creation build them big and shiny.
@Patrick Baptist Lol Rome failed long before America was even a thought.
For me it rather reminds me of Cesar crossing the Rubicon
@@HashknightGaming so what? America is going to fail this century, having lasted much less time than Rome
GO TEXAS COAST!!! This will be beautiful and much needed! I know it's costing a LOT of money, but chances are it will save money in ways we cannot see! If it does its job, that will be magnificent and people, property, and businesses will be spared!
So you want my tax dollars to build over a billion dollar wall....to protect the wealthiest Americans with their millions of dollars of waterfront properties.....and I spend $20,000 a year on health insurance.....?
@@sailorman92704 I hear ya and can totally relate. I can't rub two pennies together being as I live on a 1 acre piece of oceanfront property in the desert in West Texas. Not too many can afford health insurance out here unless they were blessed to hang onto their jobs. I would help with the wall if I could...I'd do a lot of things to help save our drilling and production industry! This oil field raised my kids and gave my family a good living. It's all gone out here now.
@@sailorman92704 get a job that provides health insurance. There are PLENTY of jobs that will provide health insurance to you. Health insurance is also a problem stemming from Obamacare, so if you ever voted for that idiot, reap what you sew.
I pay ZERO for my health insurance and get fantastic healthcare in Texas :)
@moby1kanob.... then you won't have any problem paying for your own seawall...instead of mooching off hardworking Americans taxes living across the country. BTW Americans pay twice what other wealthy countries pay for healthcare. So tell me about the great health insurance republicans are offering? .... oh... that's right.....Republicans have no plans.....republiCons have threatened for years to get rid of obamacare but have offered nothing....many republicans dont want to get rid of obamacare. It's the best game in town.....over 35 million Americans are on obamacare. Republicans don't know how to govern just b!tch about how awful it is here in America.....SO LEAVE!
@@sailorman92704 I mean, Houston is famous for flooding and this would prevent a lot of that. I know people who are not wealthy and lost everything to flooding. This will protect everyone in Houston.
“Texas is defending its coastline in the only way it knows how” Building a wa- going big! Going big is what I was thinking too
i was there for IKE, I was going to school at galveston college at the time and everything on the seawall was gone after the storm. We also went to Galveston every summer and any time it rained the city pretty much always flooded which is why im happy to see new drainage and pumps in the plan.
I remember it flooding bad by GC. I remember one time it poured down rain for a couple hours and my car was parked across the street to the east. That roadway was flooded and I saw at least a dozen cars stall out and float while trying to traverse it. I waited an hour but the water never receded and I had to get to my car and the water was quite literally balls deep when i walked through. Just from a couple hours of rain.
A big part of the issue was clogged drains (for decades). A lot of work has been put into fixing this. Harborside doesn't flood like it used to anymore. It was shitty city management responsible for the flooding.
Wow. It's an exact copy of what we Dutch call "Deltawerken" (Deltaworks). Our defence system against the sea. It only looks slightly more modern. But, same idea, and hopefully it works out for Texas or even other area's. If not, raise more dykes and design and install more valves until the system works. I'm actually very proud to see the Deltaworks being adapted by the USA. 👏
Not exact. It will be a cheap knockoff, and will fail just like their power grid.
Everything's dumber in Texas
Florida?
Thanks. I’m glad to see other people like the US and what we are doing
@@angryhairpeicecongrats on proving how little you actually understand about Texas infrastructure 🎉
@@angryhairpeice What makes you say that angrypubichairpiece?
Louisiana has already built one. It was built after Katrina to keep surge out of the river, which in turns keeps it out of lake Pontchartrain that feeds the canals that had the levee failures to create the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina.
It's no joke. I have family in Galveston and visited the beach once in the early 90s, and again in the early 2000s. There's this narrow strip of sand where there used to be a decent sized beach.
This just depends on the tide. There has been a bunch of restoration and the beaches are now bigger, but if the tide is high they shrink.
0:30 They're finally decarbonizing their Energy sector!; They're finally decar... Oh. Oh shit! "Dealing" that way.
Texas is the largest green energy producer in the US…we can talk about complete decarbonization when the rest of the US stops begging for its oil addiction. Until then, blaming Texas for the nationwide (and worldwide) issue is ridiculous
I can't wait to see what happens when the Ike Dike meets hurricane Tina in the future.
That's why it is so important to have a tidal energy project.
So the big wheel, will indeed, keep on turnin'.
Galveston and Houston used to have an electric passenger rail connection as well as extensive electric trolley systems
they need to bring this back and on a larger scale
@@nottawa86"And deprive me of mah God Given Raht ter drive a 6.7 litre v10 truck dahn ter the store ter get a hayaff gallern o milk whenever ah wanna? Goddam pinko subversive commie bastard "....... well, good luck with that, or in other words it ain't gunna happen........sadly.
I've always wondered about our ability to extend coasts and barriers by just going inland and dumping dirt off the coast. Especially with places like CA, though we have no serious storm issues and hurricanes as a reliable threat, we do have coastal erosion and really step elevation from the coast, it would be easy to "take some off the top" and relocate that. Maybe develop something like a "mud pipeline". from higher elevation areas.
We could also easily do water pipelines from the coast and desalination plants and run that into higher deserts to solve almost every case of drought issues and increase real estate value of a mostly value-less desert.
Desalination takes a lot of effort, but might be doable. I know in the Netherlands along the coast are many things to help the beaches with coastal erosion. That includes structures in the water, but also planting beach grass and creating/protecting dunes. There’s also ships that suck sand from deeper in the sea onto beaches/closer to beaches. Those dunes also function as storm barriers.
Why is desert "valueless". Many species developed on that "valueless" land and they have great value just for existing.
If it were easy, California would have massive desalination plants in place already. California loves cheap potable and agricultural grade water. Among other things, it’s very energy intensive when you add all the membrane compression, pumping demands, etc up. The reason it’s common in the Middle East is all the cheap oil nearby lets them do thermal distillation at a price they can tolerate.
Im currently on a work assignment here Amsterdam and I drive every day to the Port of IJmuiden and I see these navigating gates, very impressive structures. I hope Houston(I’m from Katy) adopts this technology to protect our city.
IJmuiden is impressive, how Amsterdam got access to the sea, an ongoing project, the new wider gates now!
Houston needs the same solution, are the taxpayers willing to understand it ?
H-town represent haha. I'm from Katy too but it's just Houston to those outside of east Texas. Yeah Netherlands have been reclaiming land for centuries with windmill pumps and their civil engineering is impressive. I would say our system of hundreds of miles of huge bayous is pretty impressive too if I'm being honest
@Martial Cabo lost tax revenue from homes worth a lot less after Harvey. We survived Harvey and Ike, except for some pieces of fence knocked down. We are located near I-10 and Houston Tollway, 2 miles from Memorial Hospital and shopping mall. House values have sky rocketed. Never had flooding or wind damage on our street. Lucky. so far.
@@lucasremno since Amsterdam and Texas are like comparing a house to one of the worlds greatest buildings 😂 Netherlands has terminal demographics as well where they have more older people than young and low birthrates and one of the reasons is because they have high taxes so no I hope Thai doesn’t happen in Texas
@@Geoff9001not really impressive about the Netherlands system 😂 and comparing it to Texas is pretty funny since Texas has a much larger economy thanks to its great technology
I live 2 blocks from the location at 7:01. My family never left Galveston for any hurricane, including Ike in 2008. After the 1900 Storm they built the Seawall, which is about 17 feet tall facing the Gulf of Mexico for about 100 blocks. Then they did the Grade Raising, where they filled in the entire island by about 9 feet, jacking up all the surviving buildings, including cathedrals, mansions, businesses and small homes. This took about 14 years. The storm surge came in from the Bay side, where the flooding was as much as 10 feet in Ike, though less as you go towards the Seawall, as the island drains to the bay. Along Broadway the flooding was about 4 feet. The cost of the Ike Dike is projected to be less than the insurance claims paid out in Hurricane Ike alone, so the sooner we get it the better. New Orleans got billions of dollars in levees and storm protection tight after Hurricane Katrina, yet we haven't had any building yet. You can go visit the county history museum and see the jewelry and other personal effects of victims from the 1900 storm. Galveston has a long history, and our property values continue to increase every year. Most homes are now being built to at least 20 feet above sea level now, or even more. We're just a sand bar 3x30 miles long, but we'll survive one way or another.
I got a lot in Gilchrist next to rowover
@@revelationakagoldeneagle8045
No been sober for years now. When I hear about this beach town that comes to mind.
Sorry to upset u.
@@revelationakagoldeneagle8045 When I hear of this small beach town that comes to mind. Sorry to upset u.
@@oreo1064 I'm not upset Brother...
I was just a little confused at the moment.
Blessings from Georgia 🍑
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@@revelationakagoldeneagle8045Shalom Yud-Tes Kislev
Never heard of Galveston? That part took me away. Is Galveston an unheard of city?!?! Thats wild to me, so much history.
Yeah, someone just told everyone how stupid he is
IKR!😂
Fred: "You may never have heard of Galveston..."
Glen Campbell: "Hold my guitar!"
Lol it made me feel old when he said that. I suddenly realised that song was from 53 years ago
I was baffled by that statement until I remembered I grew up next county over and of course most people haven't heard of Galveston 😂
The only hit song about the Spanish-American War. Got popular because folks interpreted it as about Vietnam.
The Army Corps of Engineers just announced a preferred alternative in a $35+ billion dollar seawall project for NYC as well.
@Patrick Baptist National debt & personal debt are treated very differently.
AKA… no worries.
@@patrickbaptist8233 So let another hurricanes storm surge hit and do $30 billion worth of damage? Oh that $30 billion seawall would have helped right about now. It will pay for itself.
@@patrickbaptist8233 You know what drove up costs? Printing trillions during a bs pandemic. Did that money contribute to anything beneficial? No it just went to stimulus checks people bought TVs and beer with.
@@patrickbaptist8233 Defense budget is around 700b a year, a couple trillion on stimulus is a much more massive waste than actually using $ for something tangible.
@@patrickbaptist8233 There will always be need for defense, on this planet or off it.
I wish them all the luck! Here in the Netherlands engineers have come around from switching to mega dykes immediatelly though. Why? they cost a huuuge amount of money , effort and ecological worth and sometimes just move the problem to another area (I know in New Orleans they built massive floodworks but now the floods just go further inland targetting less populated (but still populated) areas). A lot of times it's easier and cheaper to work with your environment. Like strengthening excisting dunes, marshes or mangroves (if you live somewhere they grow). Or move around or adapt your cities to the moving coastline. Why not accept the sea is sometimes more powerfull then humans? We don't have to 'conquer' or 'defeat' it
The Netherlands defeated USA in the World Cup!!!!!!!
Are you actually a Dutch person talking about adapting to the land? You've got to be kidding. Large portions of your country shouldn't exist. You're a bit late to talk about mangroves of all things.
@@aluisious yes I am. Why shouldn't we be able to talk about our wrongs? Just the fact that we have allready been through it all and can talk from experience means our views are worth something. Saying you can't talk about something just because you did a bad in the past is just ridiculous
@@aluisious It's a huge thing in the water sector nowadays. 'Soft' protection as opposed to 'hard' protection. And passive over active. Once you combine soft with passive you get nature based solutions, or stuff like the 'Haakse zeedijk'.
They kind of buried the lead as they say in the news business. Indeed they are protecting the city of Galveston and some other residential areas, but they are also protecting the petroleum and chemical plants of Texas City and the banks of the Trinity Bay. They process over 2 million barrels of oil every day plus produce a lot of chemicals from oil and natural gas. It’s billions in revenue every week. Plus we export millions of barrels of oil and refined products out of this area.
The biggest need as well to Galveston, and I am in the area, is a need for a traffic route connecting between Bolivar and Galveston island. And bolivar needs their highway improved from a 2 lane to at least a 4-6 lane for evacuation routes. Houston is so huge now that taking the I45 corridor to get out is really hard when you’re on the south side. We need routes heading east, the only way to cross is a slow ferry system that can take 1-3 hours depending on traffic and time of year.
This, on Thanksgiving the power lines on the Bolivar side shorted and we sat there for 3 hours.
They're buying another ferry soon for $40M, converting the others to diesel hybrid, and spend about $50M annually between the two ferry systems in the state according to txdot. The Baytown Bridge is similar in length and height to what would be needed in Galveston and cost about $250M adjusted for inflation...
That won’t fix anything. It sounds like they need more options or have a freight only route. More lane = more trips.
Keep the islands as they are please, you need to move to Austin !
Keep it as a vacation home only!
Need to build out alternate options like passenger rail, all adding another lane will do is create more backed up traffic
@Martial Cabo the rail infrastructure already exists, just copy what Brightline did in Florida, spend a little time and money repairing and improving the existing track, then you'd have a system that not only moves more people faster then the existing 10 lane highway, but also removes traffic from said highway
I mean, if you're going to build something this massive. It's a very smart idea to get ideas and help from countries that have implemented similar or identical systems with success lol - bravo to A&M for finding some help to make realistic plans
Yeah, no need to reinvent the wheel. There’s a lot of expertise all around the world, ready to be tapped into. Being Dutch I look forward to seeing the end product, how it might be different to the ones we have here, considering Texas deals with different weather than the Netherlands.
I don't think people have forgotten about the hurricane that hit Galveston in the early 1900s. Isn't it still the deadliest hurricane in US history?
It is
It doesn't sit right with the climate propagandists though.
@@lightdark00 what doesn't sit right?
It is the deadliest........and people have forgotten.
@@409DLo Anything that disagrees with their propaganda.
Preventing the damage from 1 Ike size event already earns this project back all its costs, so yeah, totally worth!
worth
I'm from Houston and have been to Galveston many times. Too bad it has some really rough/delapidated areas in the middle of the island. The east and west ends are very nice.
Poor people have to live somewhere too.
Need to gentrification the place. Get them to unaffordable tax rates. Bunch of bums with beach walk homes
@@stevesherman5761 because most people live in coastal areas. Lots of people live in tornado alley too.
Develop some empathy.
@@stevesherman5761 most people live in coastal areas. There is always something to endure. Whether it's hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, drought, etc.
You sound ignorant and I obviously hit the nail on the head by pointing out your lack of empathy even for your own family.
No one worth their salt asked for any help. We actually help each other without being asked because we have empathy.
Your kind isn't welcome here,
so we can all be happy that you chose to live elsewhere.
@Steve Sherman There's still plenty of industry and commerce in Galveston. It's not entirely a resort town as all the features that made it an attractive port are still there.
hurricanes aren't getting more common. landfalling hurricanes have decreased since the 60s and 70s
You can’t just fix all your problems with a wall Texas!
Texas:
Lots of people in Texas don't like the wall, particularly the people who live where it was built.
@@stevesherman5761 the dead do not feel anything
@@stevesherman5761 u do realize that illegal immigrants are actually less likely to commit crimes than natives?
@@stevesherman5761 bro this isnt even up for a debate it is a well studied fact, almost as well proven as climate change even, and as we all know, climate change is completely agreed upon.
@@stevesherman5761 In 2018, the illegal immigrant criminal conviction rate was 782 per 100,000 illegal immigrants, 535 per 100,000 legal immigrants, and 1,422 per 100,000 native‐born Americans. - the numbers do not lie.
US Army "Corpse" of Engineers
Met a US Navy chick and she was a complete jerk. Assuming me being jealous for not being in the military or not being accecpted into. What a total joke. The seniors are already retiring and the army is being replaced by juvenile karens and ts as well. I highly doubt it would stand a chance against other armies at this point. Especially asian ones which are just fierce on the battlefield.
Corpse of engineers? Deadly.
I live in central Texas but my family and I go to Port Aransas every summer on vacation and it's sad to see some places are still rebuilding to 100 % capacity and some places we liked to eat or go just folded up shop and moved. Mother Nature does her own thing and we no different than creatures can do no more than learn, overcome and try to adapt to her will.
Sure, In The Netherlands we have been doing well for decades. This is essentially a copy paste of the Delta works in Zeeland and the Measlantkering In Rotterdam.
Just saying, you Americans are years behind on what can and honestly should have been done.
I'm sorry you live in Texas. Is there anything I can do to help?
@@HelloImNoob2323 don't be sorry. Texas is great
@@vinceruland9236 It used to be, pre Trump
@Hello I'm noob still is. Trump didn't have any negative effects
Guy 1 : *sees dude building a wall in the desert*
Guy 1 : " why you buildin' that wall here?"
Guy 2 : "to keep these guys out of my country that i don't like"
Guy 1 : "well....I don't like the ocean very much..."
Guy 2 : "Wall it up!"
family guy nice
I think you mixed up guy 1 with guy 2
Well in U.S. fashion the price has ballooned to 57 billion dollars
Texas storms are orders of magnitudes larger than little Rotterdam storms, is one problem. The other problem is that Harvey flooded the ship channel from above
Yes every proposed plan for a coastal spine is not waterproof but will only mitigate the turbulence of the water. Its a joke.
These structures are specifically designed to handle the most extreme of storms. You're not designing from scratch 22 metre tall, 6800 ton steel arms to handle measly storms. Their magnitude design was 'once in 10000 years' storms.
People always talk about things in Texas being big, but never fail to forget San Antonio, which is a beautiful historic city and the 2nd biggest in the state behind Houston.
what does that have to do with anything in this video? Sure just interject your city into the discussion for no reason, makes sense.
Dallas is the true 2nd largest city in Texas. San Antonio simply annexed more land to boost its population. Dallas County alone still has more people than the entire San Antonio metro area.
@@214dude2 I see you just contradicted every contemporary census report from the Gov, nice.
@@kronk9418 How?
Dallas - 1,304,379 (339.6 sq mi of land)
Dallas County - 2,613,539 (873.06 sq mi of land)
DFW Area - 7,637,387 (8,675 sq mi)
San Antonio - 1,434,625 (498.85 sq mi of land)
Bexar County - 2,009,324 (1,240 sq mi of land)
San Antonio Metro area - 2,558,143 (7,387 sq mi)
Numbers from 2020. Clearly Dallas is the much larger city by these stats.
San Antonio has not much of value to offer to be honest, unlike Houston and Austin. The north parts of San Antonio and the Hill Country are nice, and there's some good spots in downtown and around the city center, but other than that it's not got much going for it. If you think San Antonio is nice and historic, you've never been to Europe. It's a dump, like most American cities with only a few good streets that are worth walking.
My grandfather was a young boy when Hurricane Ike hit in 1900. He managed to survive by clinging to the causeway. He later worked for the Irish gang who controlled gambling.
Ike hit about 12 years ago not in 1900. I live here in Galveston County and stayed during Ike. That was a different hurricane
@@JuarezDerrick you’re right. I got the name wrong. It was the Great Hurricane of 1900. Thanks.
The Maceo Brothers controlled organized crime in Galveston... they were Sicilian. They ran The Balinese Room off the Seawall which was destroyed during Ike. There's a story that Al Capone once sent one of his guys to Galveston to see about taking control of it... and The Maceo's mailed his head back to Chicago.
Climate change has no effect on size and frequency of hurricanes. If you feel like more damage is done by hurricanes each year, its probably because more and more people are moving to many of the hurricane-prone regions of the US.
In Texas, I figured they would go for mass prayers or something like that. It would be a lot cheaper. I know that was their official policy for dealing with drought back in 2011. The governor issued a proclamation calling for days of prayer against the drought. It wasn't effective, but it was cheap.
Ok fascist, whatever you say, bet you support funding the nazi's in Ukraine too.
@@DanielRichards644 No, I support Communist KGB Colonel Putin. Doesn't everyone?
@Dan Sanger no, people that think for themselves can acknowledge both sides are bad.
Have a water problem? Ask the Dutch.
Seems they are opting in Texas for a 'Deltawerken' (Delta works) inspired design It's proven effective, good choice
It's also interesting to note that Americans continue to build houses on coastlines that are not up to facing the elements. It's like trying to keep a cardboard box from blowing away in the wind. Take a note from the Italians: build out of brick and concrete...
Brick and concrete won’t save you from the storm surge and water damage.
Also it’s not just the wind that is blowing, it’s what’s in the wind that’s blowing.
If a hurricane is strong enough to pick up something as heavy as a tree and turn into a ballistic missile, brick and concrete also doesn’t stand a chance.
The Galveston hurricane of 1900 that this video already mentioned absolutely destroyed the entire city including most brick and concrete and stone buildings.
What about water flowing into your homes. Food and water supply all gone. No electricity, no internet and communication.
Flood insurance laws are in part to blame. FL (and I believe Texas) have laws which make it illegal to charge a fair price for flood insurance based on the chance of a hurricane destroying your house. The federal govt has to pick up the shortfall every time a hurricane comes through, and then residents are welcome to rebuild on the same storm-tossed coastline that just got destroyed.
If we can afford to waste billions on Ukraine, we can afford to pay US residents to cover flood insurance costs
@@spaguettoltd.7933 If you have a mortgage for coastal/beachfront home in Texas, state law allows the lender to escrow flood insurance. And they will. And it is not cheap. You will have to carry 3 insurances - Flood, Windstorm and homeowners. You will prob pay as much for the insurance and taxes as you do you your mortgage.
Informative and mercifully brief - a rare combination these days!
Not sure I can trust this presentation completely... he said the *corpse* of engineers has gotten involved.
@@SansNeural The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The same people who've been bringing you dams, locks, levees, dikes, bridges, seawalls and other large-scale water engineering projects for, oh, about a quarter of a millennia.
@@The-KP Oh, I know all about the US Army Corps of Engineers... my father served in that Corps in the Korean War. But the narrator here said "corpse".
@@SansNeural lol
I'm a towboat Captain primarily in the port of Houston and Galveston like the few shown in your video. I'm also a born and raised south Texan and have been in industry for 27 years, this is the first I've heard about this project and very curious how it's going to affect my job. The five way intersection where the flood gates are going to be placed is one of the busiest in the country with hundreds of vessels passes one way or other daily, very interesting to say the least.
And I'm a tow boat 5 star general I even managed to tow your mom somehow
It's not gonna happen just because of that...this is all BS. The only thing that needs to change is the rest of the country's ignorance about the Gulf Coast.
@K B What? First of all, nobody said the traffic has anything to do with the project. I'm simply pointing out how I'm not familiar with the project and at the same time extremely knowledgeable about the area. I don't know what vast knowledge you claim to have about the Gulf Coast, but I'm 100% sure the experts know far more than you ever will. Not to be a jerk, but you sound pretty ignorant.
@@Jacob-ed1bl I think you underestamate the sheer size of this project. Yes you might need a detour you cant cut off close the coastline anymore, but 2 container ships could move through this with relative ease. and there's 2 of them. I get your concerns though. As someone from the netherlands i can tell you with all my heart. Its better to have a little added difficulty with boats then having millions of people flooded. We deal with water like nobody else does and and this is out of a pure need. In 1953 our small country got absolutely demolished by floods.
Also it might actually increase your workload. Most of rotterdam cannot be entered by big ships, they have to be tugged. The chance of someone hitting the Delta works and breaking them is simply too high. i have no sense of scale how far this is away from houston, but theres a reasonable chance they'd have to be tugged the entire way.
@Shosher I understand the size of the project, but I don't think you understand the amount of traffic that goes through that location, and driving vessels isn't like driving a car. It's an extremely difficult location as it is, so saying "a little more difficulty" could lead to major catastrophe. Regardless, it's being built, and we'll deal with it.
I'm sure after the Texas City Disaster in 1947, the Galveston Bay has been thriving serious production since it's reconstruction. Money won't be hard to come by for a major port like this one.
The idea that it would cost just 31 billion is absolutely crazy.
Absolutely right. The only thing Texas brags about is how inexpensive everything is in Texas. Ugh. Texas is filled with scammers.
I’m sure they plan to get the blue states to pay for it.
Great video! A very impressive project!
Good to see the Army Corps of Engineers involved - if anyone can get things done, they can!
Just copy the works from Rotterdam, but are taxpayers willing to pay for it ?
if anyone can get things done ?
They can't stop sea levels from rising
@@frankmacleod2565 an inch every hundred years. They can handle it
@@conradnelson5283 unfortunately it's a much faster rate than that, and the rate itself is accelerating. Sea level in San Francisco bay has come up seven inches in the last century and the rate is increasing. King tides have consistently been several inches higher than predicted according to standard models, the last few years. I live on the ocean and can see this rise myself. The ocean is changing
@@conradnelson5283 you didn't think the climate changes at the same rate over time, did you? The climate fluctuates over time in reaction to a great variety of drivers, one of which is atmospheric chemistry.
Without The Netherlands, this world wouldn't be the same.
Seems like it would make sense to collect tidal energy as part of this project .
nah, its texas, they didn't think that hard. They said what is the best way to protect our oil fields and keep the flow going and the money coming....anything that benefited other people is just a side effect from them not thinking things through
texas is a land of idiots. In marfa one year, they had a veterans day parade, a flatbed truck full of ww2 vets, vietnam vets, all old. That truck stopped on a train track, a train came and no one even tried to get off, move or save their life in any way, AT ALL...they are idiots, the smart ones move away.
Tidal energy sounds too green. The people running Texas would never go for it.
That would be too "woke" for them.
@@mimcduffee86 Well given how well the "green" Windmills and shutting down natural gas power plants worked for them last winter when they got hit with a big freeze and chunks of the power grid collapsed because of it, wouldn't you be suspicious of "green" projects when you just saw a bunch of people DIE in the name of Renewable Energy?
Tidal, solar and wind.
However as others have said. No, this is Texas.
Although I find it baffling that a nation so fiercely proud and independant wouldn't take the opportunity to use any resource possible in order to be less reliant on other nations for its energy.
You mentioned the Seawall. it was another huge project. Especially when raising the grade of the portion of tlhe island behind the Seawall. Buildings and utilities were jacked up and sludge pumped in. Initially funded by Galveston.
Houston paid for the Ship Channel. Galveston had a hard time distributing cargo with one railroad bridge. Hiuston's motto was Where The Railroads Meet the Sea.
Lined with petrochemical plants because loading tankers directly is better than building more pipelines
The Bush sprout tried to use the Land Office to begin another wonderful Bush political career. He failed...
sprout :)
As long as they do it right no shortcuts we are all good.
Islander here. Thanks for covering Galveston! We are gritty and resilient bunch down here.
@Steve Sherman you don't see me begging for handouts. And I was born here.
@Steve Sherman negative. I thanked the creator for making a video about Galveston.
@@amydiazhollis6642 @Steve Sherman Steve, that was embarrassing.
Texas is going Dutch! Good job guys, this will plan be very succesfull. I know it.
Of course dear it will be very successful 🎉
Yes, must be reassuring to know that in the event of hurricanes, the Netherlands will be safe!
If you use an Apple product or an Android or an Google or Amazon product does that mean you are going American?? YAY!!!!
@@moby1kanob Maybe i would say it when i prepare myself a hamburger. Food has much more of a cultural aspect to it then for example a tech product. While in this video it's about a certain construction technique. One that became an importand part of our culture.
5:33 That’s a Fort McHenry flag. Not something you see every day.
That next storm gone hit way before that’s built
As someone who just moved to Galveston county... This is amazing!!
Imagine if we just invested all the money in renewables 50 years ago....
I watched a video on the Netherlands Sea barrier, amazing work. I'm sure Texas will get experts from there to build in Texas.
Took you long enough. As a Dutch person myself, I've always found it baffling that nothing is done even after multiple devastating floods. Especially since there's a country with a wealth of expertise on the subject. Now we just have to wait for new York to flood before they start their own project.
Mostly because the devastation wasn't that devastating in the grand scheme of things. Most of the problem is poverty. The people writing building codes aren't stupid, weather events are common enough that resiliency is baked into the building codes. The problems mostly arise in poor areas where building codes get ignored, cheap materials get subbed in, and people don't do the necessary maintenance/repair of their property. e.g. I grew up in coastal New England and hurricane force Nor'Easters happen every year. If you walk through the older neighborhoods near the water, "Ground Level" is about 6 feet above the street, and about 10-12 feet above sea level for that reason. For comparison, look at the relative impacts of Maria and Ian (similarly intense storms) hitting Puerto Rico and Florida respectively.
@@Giffandy5329 There is very little resiliency against water though. Especially salt water. Not to mention the fact that a lot of houses in the US are made of wood and not stone. And then there is the infrastructure. Roads, bridges, electricity poles and substations, the sewage system etc. All of these things are affected by floods. The damage goes way beyond that of human lives or their house.
When people see negative things, often they haven't asked you to know anything.
Assuming is dangerous.
Never take anything for granted.
It's infuriating that $31 b is considered a lot of money in a tourism city in an oil and gas state in a 1st place globally defense budget country. That's a drop in the bucket of the money available. And considering the rebuilding costs of damaged property lately.....an overdue no brainer.
Don't worry, Big Oil and Gas companies won't lose any money or pay any, Taxpayers will pay
Omg you finally talked about Galveston! Finally felt seen for once. Is it possible if you could make more videos on Houston? We are the 4th largest city in the US after all.
Waiting for a vid on Austin’s upcoming super tall skyscraper
@@leogarcia12515Austin also recently got *another* supertall proposal that will beat out the Waterline. Excited to see what more comes to the Austin skyline in the next decade
Why you never post them ?
Post videos please, what can you find ?
@@leogarcia12515 please do make them!
Aren't these the same people who complain that offshore wind power farms are unsightly?
For $31bn you could just re-locate the entire island and let the island serve its natural purpose as a storm surge barrier.
Exactly! Moreover you can also spend a fraction of that money to plant and develop a mangroves forest over there which will only act as natural line of defense. But then it's A MERIKHA!! 🤷
I think one of the issues is that the barrier island isn’t sufficient enough and Houston needs surge barriers to prevent a rush of water flooding the city again
I’m currently working at the Galveston bay refinery hopefully this will keep more steady work in the area
Hopefully the refinery won't work much longer or soon you will have to build another higher wall. .
are you looking for a sugar baby 😳 asking for myself
I just read Neal Stephenson's novel Termination Shock this year, which prominently features the Maeslantkering which this looks to be modeled on. Unbelievably huge project but probably cheaper than moving millions of people and businesses inland.
For someone who played excellent guitar and wrote spot on lyrics, that's the first time you have been.
John C Vance?
@@HashknightGaming My grandfather was a John C. Vance, but I am not. The other commenter may have mistaken me for someone else.
@@JohnVance My biological father's name was John Charles Vance just making sure. 😐😅🤣
@@HashknightGaming Shucks, mine was John Campbell. So close!
Galveston County is my home and I miss it dreadfully now that I live up in the Austin area.
Looks nice hope it gets passed, we definitely need to help are coasts. South padre island is a dam nice beach and not many people know about it in the rest of the country.
I know about because of SpaceX
People don't go to Texas for the lovely beaches
@Frank MacLeod I think the beaches here are great. Especially the ones in very low populated ares and you can drive for miles sometimes and not see another person. Who wants to go to a beach that has thousands of people crammed on it?
@@vinceruland9236 Sounds like it is here in California. I like the empty ones myself. Just gotta stay out of the big cities, like everywhere else. I can't imagine the beaches in Galveston are exactly empty
@Frank MacLeod no, def not in Galveston. I like to surf fish, so I go to virtually empty beaches where I can drive the beach until there's nobody around. In south Padre Island, it's like a 60 mile drive down the beach and you're literally alone. So nice. The only beaches in Cali I've been to are all the ones in SD.
Cant build a functioning power grid but im supposed to believe they can pull this off lmao
You wanna talk about BAD power grids look at California and NYC, they can barely go a week without rolling brownouts and black outs with perfectly fine weather...now THAT is bad!!
Texas Power Grid has ONE outing when it got to 0 degrees Fahrenheit and you think its an actual problem. Texas energy runs perfectly fine 99.999999999% of the time and the last time it got that cold was 30+ years ago. You don't know what you are talking about. I live in Dallas and actually never lost power once during that whole mega freeze. I have not been without power in a storm, or any other reason in over a decade. DFW, Texas Power grid is solid as a rock....
Also, now that we had a FREAK nature occurrence happen, promise you that will never happen again, Texas learns from past problems, unlike California, NY, Oregon, Washington State, etc etc etc...
@@moby1kanob fake news I lived in California for 3 years never had even a brownout
@@moby1kanob I lived in NYC and never had to used back-up power sources for my computer like here in Dallas. I recalled only 2 while in NYC in 30 years, while in TX we're considering a back up generator.
Walls don't work. We have *ladders*
😂
It’s an awesome idea! The Tx utility companies need to pitch in in the forms of taxes ! Utilities have been racking in huge profits for years but didn’t invest in infrastructure! Instead utilities padded the pockets of CEO, CFO, COO executives instead 😉
shut up. Pointless , narrative driven drivel.
Getting Centerpoint energy in texas to do anything isn't even comparable to pulling teeth. They're the absolute worst as far as customer service and their brotherhood of electricians are fanatical zealots that regular treat customers worse than their call center
wrong
@@wulfeman9948 lol…. You must be one them Executives 🤮
I've been to Galveston, and I fell in love with it. I live in Dallas and I would love to go back, but for now all I can do is save my money and then I can go down to Galveston in about another year. If the US government would make China pay us back the trillions of dollars that they owe us, then the safety measures could be built.
Why not plant a green belt? Mangroves for one.
Texans: "Sounds like a namby-pamby woke liberal commie idea, to me!"
Also Texans: "Isn't there someway we can solve this problem with more guns?"
That's too simple to call it a 'solution'. We need to 'invent' something new and big!! 😂✌️
In real life, they’d tip their hats for that.
my grandparents live there, I go to Christmas there every year since I was a baby
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Investing wisely in stocks is a good idea, a good trading system would puts you through many days of success.
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The “Corps” in Corps of Engineers is pronounced “COR”
He is European, let it slide.
Honestly Galveston is a barrier island that protects the main land. Nice to visit would not want to live there as beautiful as it is
When mother nature wants to take the land back she will and there's no stopping her.
Well she’ll have a hard time because ya don’t mess with Texas
It feels like a no-brainer if a disaster causes about $30 billion and a solution to prevent future disasters costs about the same...
Hats off to the dutch then. Right here from tx! Good work, gentleman.
“I bet ignoring climate change will be super cheap”
Um, Texas has set itself back with its leadership famously resisting any infrastructure improvements within the state. Sort of a big ask for 65 Billion when they cannot be bothered to show basic competence with their..electric grid. While being stewards of their coastal and inland waterways is smart and proactive and this makes sense, im not confident Texans are responsible enough to merit the investment.
The problem with Galveston is that it can be flooded also from the back side. Harvey proved this.
Also, water can do an end around thru San Luis Pass on the Island's west end. Even if San Luis had a similar lock, the land to the west is only a few feet above sea level.
East of Galveston, the coast to the east are just as low all the way to Beaumont.
Thus, where does the project stop?
It won't stop that is the key. It will have endless funding. It is projected to take 20 years, which means it will likely take a century. By the time we die, nobody will know when the project had started and what its goal is. It will just be to launder money. The "spine" isn't even water proof. It will allow water past it but cut down on the power of the waves. The power of the waves is irrelevant when the waters rise 10 feet. The same damage will be done.
@@woofpuppy And what about those islands placed in the channel that will house the gates? Those would be a hazard to navigation and increase the speed of tidal currents.
Texas could finance the bill overnight if they implemented a tax on people who move to Texas and complain about it not being like where they came from even though they left for a reason. Love to see the state developing new infrastructure
We could also finance it if our government, y'know, acknowledged that climate change exists, but go off
Yes they could, but they want the money of middle class and poor people, that’s much easier and saves them from complaining rich folks. Poor and middle class people don’t have connections, rich people do. So rich people know where to go with their complaints against higher taxes. And how to smoothen the paths with party donations, towards the governor, majority leader, senate leader, minister or president, so they can address their grievances to the most influential people. It’s an uneven battle.
🍊Who's gonna pay for the wall?
🇺🇸 _“Mexico!!!”_
Oil!
Did you guys take the music from the intro for Undecided?
So these days if you get a bad hurricane it’s global warming, what was it in 1900, weather??
Finally improving infrastructure !!
Weather is not more extreme than ever ....
The wrath of nature is the correct explanation
Great informative video and not boring thanks