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Night Run of the Houston Ship Channel
I've been told that there is no other place on the planet like the Houston Ship Channel.
It truly is a site to behold at night.
Hope you enjoy!
FYI
The first bridge at 0.31 is the Sidney Sherman Bridge.
The second bridge at 1.22 is the Sam Houston Tollway Ship Channel Bridge. ( At the time of completion, the bridge was the longest box girder span in the Western Hemisphere, which record it held until 1997 )
The third bridge at 2.11 is the Fred Hartman Bridge (the longest cable-stayed bridge in Texas and is the seventy-seventh largest bridge in the world)
At 1.33 you can see the Texas San Jacinto Monument (world's tallest monumental column)
It truly is a site to behold at night.
Hope you enjoy!
The Houston Ship Channel, 530 feet (160 m) wide by 45 feet (14 m) deep by 50 miles (80 km) long, located in Houston, Texas, is part of the Port of Houston—one of the United States's busiest seaports. The channel is the conduit for ocean-going vessels between the Houston-area shipyards and the Gulf of Mexico.
FYI
The first bridge at 0.31 is the Sidney Sherman Bridge.
The second bridge at 1.22 is the Sam Houston Tollway Ship Channel Bridge. ( At the time of completion, the bridge was the longest box girder span in the Western Hemisphere, which record it held until 1997 )
The third bridge at 2.11 is the Fred Hartman Bridge (the longest cable-stayed bridge in Texas and is the seventy-seventh largest bridge in the world)
At 1.33 you can see the Texas San Jacinto Monument (world's tallest monumental column)
The San Jacinto Monument is a 567.31-foot (172.92 m) high column located on the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States, near the city of La Porte. The monument is topped with a 220-ton star that commemorates the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. The monument, constructed between 1936 and 1939 and dedicated on April 21, 1939, is the world's tallest monumental column and is part of the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site. By comparison, the Washington Monument is 555.427 feet (169.294 m) tall. The column is an octagonal shaft faced with Texas Cordova shellstone, topped with a 34-foot (10 m) Lone Star – the symbol of Texas. Visitors can take an elevator to the monument's observation deck for a view of Houston and USS Texas.
The San Jacinto Museum of History is located inside the base of the monument, and focuses on the history of the Battle of San Jacinto and Texas culture and heritage.
The San Jacinto Museum of History is located inside the base of the monument, and focuses on the history of the Battle of San Jacinto and Texas culture and heritage.
On December 25, 2007, the Houston Ship Channel was featured on the CNN Special, Planet in Peril, as a potential polluter of nearby neighborhoods. That year, the University of Texas released a study suggesting that children living within 2 miles (3.2 km) of the Houston Ship Channel were 56 percent more likely to become sick with leukemia than the national average.
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