On Facebook, this morning, I saw the above list purporting to list the Top 50 most beautiful islands in the United States.
I was almost 100% sure that Fort Worth's beautiful Panther Island would be on this list.
Several Texas islands are on this list of 50, including Galveston Island, South Padre Island, Padre Island and Mustang Island.
But not Panther Island.
Shocking.
Several islands in my old home state of Washington are on this list of 50, including San Juan Island, Whidbey Island, Orcas Island and Lopez Island.
Apparently, Washington's Whidbey Island is so beautiful it is on this list of 50 twice. At #16 and #45.
Maybe the fact that Fort Worth's Panther Island is not yet a chunk of land surrounded by water, is what kept it off this list, even though that chunk of industrial wasteland, known as Panther Island, is quite beautiful.
Several years ago, Fort Worth took seven years to complete the building of three freeway overpass-like bridges, over dry land, long now in place, waiting for a cement-lined ditch to be built under those bridges, with Trinity River water diverted into the ditch, thus creating the imaginary island.
It has been awhile since I have heard anything about the current status of the Trinity River Central City Uptown Panther Island Vision.
Have saner souls taken over leadership of Fort Worth and put a stop to the madness sold as a vitally needed economic development and flood control scheme, where there had been no flooding for over a half century thanks to levees the Army Corps of Engineers installed way back in the 1950s?
This ridiculous imaginary island, vitally needed project, has been limping along from the start of the current century. Should be obvious to all, by now, that this clearly has never been a vitally needed economic development or flood control project...
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