Texas storm surge project going ahead

Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of homes and businesses near Galveston, Texas, the U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to authorize the most expensive project ever recommended by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect against the next raging storm.

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