Arguments Against Hurricane Ike
In 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall to the east coast line in Galveston Texas. The storm surge water that Ike produced by flooding the east coast region of Houston and Galveston. It has been estimated over billions of dollars in damage to homeowners, business owners, and cause numerous of deaths. The mass destruction that Ike caused had people coming up with ideas to prevent or lessen the effects if a storm like this would ever occur in the future. A storm surge project have been drafted and submitted to politicians for approval is being delayed due to finical funding issues. Money should not be the major delay when it comes to saving homeowners, business owners, and a life of a person. Dr. William Merrell is President of Texas A&M Galveston and Assistant Director National Science foundation also teaches Master of Marines Resources Management Program. After Hurricane Ike, he was able to see firsthand the destruction not from the Hurricane itself, from the water surge that it produced. Dr. Merrell and other colleague began researching how to protect the coastal region from a storm surge. The team came up with a similar project in the Netherlands built to protect their coastal regions. It is Texas Storm
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The politician that need to vote or pass the Ike Dike project is questioning and some are not even giving the effort to look at the Ike Dike plan when the cost of the project is going to cost. The politicians who are causing the delay are living somewhere up north where flood waters will not affect them as it will to our coastal region. For them, they are safe and we are not. This political delay needs to stop; they should want to help find financial support to provide the funding to start building the Ike Dike surge plan to protect the coastal communities and save people’s lives and not putting them in danger of another
The politician that need to vote or pass the Ike Dike project is questioning and some are not even giving the effort to look at the Ike Dike plan when the cost of the project is going to cost. The politicians who are causing the delay are living somewhere up north where flood waters will not affect them as it will to our coastal region. For them, they are safe and we are not. This political delay needs to stop; they should want to help find financial support to provide the funding to start building the Ike Dike surge plan to protect the coastal communities and save people’s lives and not putting them in danger of another