{"id":73151,"date":"2017-06-30T20:41:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T00:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73151"},"modified":"2017-07-01T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T11:20:11","slug":"uss-texas-bb-35-is-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73151","title":{"rendered":"USS Texas (BB-35) is in trouble."},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>The USS Texas<\/a>, the battleship that served in during World War One and on both fronts during World War Two, is not in her toughest fight yet. <\/p>\n

For the past few decades the Texas Parks & Wildlife staff and volunteers that take care of the century old dreadnought have been fighting against salt water, flooding and time to keep her above water. Recently things have taken a turn for the worse<\/a>. In this case, when it rains, it pours<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“The Texas is as old as the Titanic.The Titanic launched a month before the Texas,” said Bruce Bramlett, executive director of the Battleship Texas Foundation. “She’s been in the water for over a century and water always wins that fight — sooner or later.”<\/p>\n

Water poured in earlier this month, and officials say they can’t keep up with it<\/p>\n

In order to keep the ship sustainable for years to come, officials say it’s going to take $40 million. That is why they’re sounding the alarm now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is not the first time the USS Texas has faced similar a crisis. But this time may need more then just another patch job, it needs to be put in dry dock. Unfortunately most of the funds and donations have only been able to handle buy time and not permanent solutions. Currently the dry dock is in phase two, but it is expected to be eighteen months before the plan is completed. <\/p>\n

“You can’t move this ship anymore,” Bramlett said. “We don’t want to reach the point where it’s just you have to cut her up right where she sits and haul her out of here on barges.”<\/p>\n

Battleship Texas officials say the state will have to put up $30 million just to scrap the ship<\/strong>, so they’re hoping they can raise the extra money necessary and get help from federal officials as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “S” word has me concerned and worried. I have been to the USS Texas as kid and as a father with my son. I have the USS Texas in my fleet for World of Warships. I first heard of the ships from shooting at coke cans advertising the aluminium recycling drive to help restore her back in the 1980s. So the idea that may have to be scraped is a signification event. So I wanted to acknowledge original message that I saw on Facebook<\/a>, the that inspired me to make this post. <\/p>\n

\nIf you want to help, please call the Governor’s (Greg Abbott) office at 512-463-2000 and tell them to appropriate the funds for a dry berth now. The state is going to spend $30M one way or the other (if scraping becomes necessary), so they might as well spend the money the right way. Call every day! Please share this with your other battleship fans…and CALL TODAY!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So that is the message, help spread the word around. <\/p>\n

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Save the battleship Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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