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28 Apr, 5 tweets, 3 min read
For years, experts have warned that a direct strike from a Category 4/5 hurricane to the Houston region could unleash a 25-foot wall of water and cause humanitarian, economic and environmental disaster.

Reporting by @Mike_Hixenbaugh (1/5) #NBCNewsThreads nbcnews.to/3sYvhVt
@Mike_Hixenbaugh Studies estimate that such a storm could kill thousands, cause $100B in damage and result in the loss of 500,000 jobs.

One expert has warned that the resulting spills from thousands of chemical and crude oil storage tanks would be “America’s Chernobyl.” (2/5)
@Mike_Hixenbaugh Now, with President Biden pushing a $2.25T infrastructure package, some members of Congress from Texas say it’s time to finally fund the $26B coastal barrier project, known informally as the “Ike Dike.” (3/5) nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…
@Mike_Hixenbaugh The project — named for Hurricane Ike, a Cat 2 storm that devastated Houston in 2008 — calls for a series of coastal barriers, levees and dunes in the Gulf of Mexico that would work as a buffer, absorbing storm surge from incoming hurricanes and minimizing damage. (4/5)
@Mike_Hixenbaugh “What I am talking about now, what Texans have been talking about for a decade, is a plan to prevent a potential human and environmental catastrophe unlike any this country has ever seen,” Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, a Democrat from Houston, said this month about the project. (5/5)

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