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                                                                                                                                                                                U.S. Sen. John Cornyn speaks as he is honored as "Texan of the Year" at the 50th annual Texas Legislative Conference held at the New Braunfels Civic convention Center Center  on March 18. (Tom Reel/ San Antonio Express-News)
                        
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</div><!-- /photo float --><p>If a picture is worth 1,000 words then a recently published interactive graphic by Pro Publica and the Texas Tribune (search: Pro Publica and sitting ducks) about Houston's vulnerability to storm surge might as well be a novel - specifically, one written by Stephen King. </p>
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<p>Here's what we find as mind-boggling as those numbers: no one in Congress seems at best to understand or at worst care. Not so for other storm-ravaged coasts. </p>
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</div><!-- e src/business/widgets/hearst/collection/widget.tpl --></div><p>It took two months after Hurricane Sandy for the federal government to fund storm surge protection research for New York and New Jersey.</p>
<p>It took only six years after Hurricane Katrina for New Orleans to complete the longest coastal barrier in the nation and largest water pump in the world, which was funded by more than $14 billion in federal aid. </p>
<p>That time and more have passed since Ike struck the Texas coast and so far we've received nothing from budgeters in the way of dedicated storm surge protection. Instead, local leaders, politicians, academics and engineers have provided the funding and brainpower to come up with a plan to protect Houston. Several ideas have been proposed, such as a Centennial Gate across the ship channel or an extended series of levees around Galveston Bay. However, consensus seems to be aiming at the Ike Dike: a coastal spine of raised barriers that includes a storm gate between Galveston and the Bolivar Peninsula. That project would block water from entering Galveston Bay during a hurricane's storm surge, protecting all low-lying communities and industrial complexes in the bay area.</p>
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<!-- / hearst/ads/duplicatable.tpl --><p>A regional study will be published this summer, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush told Houston Public Media earlier this month, which should help unite local interests behind a single plan. </p>
<p>Once we have that plan, Houston's leaders will have to push it up the governmental ladder. Storm surge protection needs to be on the agenda for the next Texas legislative session in 2017. After that, it will have to be picked up by Congress. The Ike Dike plan is estimated at $6-8 billion, Texas State Sen. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, told a crowd at a Texas Tribune panel this month. That sort of price-tag for a single project can only be afforded by the federal government.</p>
<p>But federal responsibility for the Ike Dike isn't just a matter of financial necessity. The Houston Ship Channel and the Port of Houston both serve as a lynchpin in supply chains for the entire nation, from supplying fuel for the military to importing everyday goods across the southwest. A mere accident that shuts down the ship channel can cost $1 billion per day in economic loss. Imagine that scale of disaster if the entire region is out of commission for a month or more. </p>
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<!-- / hearst/ads/duplicatable.tpl --><p>As Bush said during his interview, politicians have to start taking the long-term view on this, instead of just looking at the two- or four-year horizon. </p>
<p>The biggest challenge right now is that Texas lacks a strong advocate in Washington. New York had Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, after Sandy. Louisiana had Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-New Orleans, after Katrina. As Morgan's Point Mayor Michel Bechtel has said, we need our own "big dog."</p>
<p>So here's our pitch: Instead of calling it the Ike Dike, advocates should start referring to the coastal spine plan as "Cornyn's Wall."</p>
<p>Congressman Tom Ball had a city named after him for funding the Houston Ship Channel. The men and women who built the Galveston Seawall still help keep their city safe more than a century after their great hurricane. Texas' senior Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican, can have his legacy etched into Texas history by delivering the appropriate funding. </p>
<p>A politician can fill a book with his legislative accomplishments, but something on the scale of Cornyn's Wall would be worth more than any words can describe.</p>
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