Texas Department of Transportation maintenance crews installed a partial section of a storm surge wall on State Highway 361 inAransas Pass Thursday morning as part of the agency’s annual hurricane readiness drill.
The exercise took place just west of the Dale Miller Bridge, where TxDOT maintains an 80-foot-wide, 10-foot-tall wall designedto close a gap in the city’s levee system during a hurricane-driven storm surge.
Danny Cox, maintenance administrator for TxDOT in Corpus Christi, said the annual drill serves two purposes: keepingexperienced crews sharp and training newer employees…