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Houston can’t wait decades for flood protection. Three years after Congress officially authorized $57 billion Ike Dike proposal, the feds haven’t given the Army Corps of Engineers the funding to build it. Every hurricane season puts us at risk. Editorial writer Nick Powell writes that waiting on a coastal barrier that would take 20 years to build reflects a lack of urgency. There are a series of smaller, faster flood mitigation solutions that we should greenlight immediately to protect our vulne