“”The Houston Ship Channel is closing?!That doesn’t happen very often.””
Texas does so many things right, they think big, act big, and they take care of their past.
We did, however, have a large number of idiots in charge of USS Texas for many years. Unfortunately. It was at one point a sinecure post for favorites of the corrupt then-Democrat governors, and Texas decayed quite badly under the Battleship Texas Commission’s tenure, 1947-1983.
Case in point, when the teak deck of the battleship decayed badly due to neglect thus letting rain water into the ship, the Commission decided it would be a great idea to replace it with concrete. Well, the concrete was garbage and began breaking up, which meant that acidic rainwater (because concrete is acidic) was now getting into the ship...
It is tradition and pride and a whole lot of chutzpah.
I wish they were not slipping like the rest of the country but it is relative isn’t it?