Dr. Patricia Bixel

Basically, the seawall and the grade-raising work.

Take hurricanes seriously.

You know, people talk about the fact that Galvestonians ignored the overflow and ignored the water, but we do the same thing now with hurricanes.

So we need to remember that hurricanes are very, very serious disasters.

The other piece I think that's important is the degree to which you can be open to change to fix it.

And I say fix it sort of tentatively because the grade raising and the seawall came with a whole lot of natural and environmental ramifications that we're sort of still working through.

But the willingness of the people of Galveston to make these extreme changes and to try new paths and to allow new kinds of people power and to just do these new things to save their island and to save their city, I think is important to think about and think about what lengths you are willing to go to to save an urban environment, to save a culture that you want.