I was here this weekend. I asked the same question. Freaking pipeline has been pumping out for years and you manage to hit it? Every power company in Texas runs adds saying "before you dig in your backyard, make sure you call us and we will let you know where are the pipes and cables are....." And these fvcking lazy corpus nitwits just dredge all Willy nilly. This is why corpus can't have nice things. It's a sh!thole run by sh!t asses. And yes, I've known two of the sh!t ass mayors and the likely next mayor who's a nice lady, but she can't manage the sh!t hole either. It's slid too far into sh!tville to be salvaged.
Example --- "nobody will ever take corpus seriously until you become a deep water port--"
City of CC---- "oye cabrones-- we needs to becomes Un Puerto de largo-- so we can get bigger chips in there so we can chip more chonklas across the world."
Corpus City Engineers--"our bridge is too short and our channel is too shallow. It will cost 8 billion dollars to build a new bridge and dig a new channel."
City of CC--- "Sheeeeet carna--- my primo down in Laredo can deeg it for 1 billion and a case of tequila."
CC city council--"We are going to need 10 billion and (counts the number of council board members) 12 cases of tequila."
CC tax office "those pinche abogados for Valero have been getting tax breaks for years! Time to tax them and Koch and Champion and DuPont and Dow and all the gringos on Ocean side and in northwest corpus. They can afford it. Whatever's left over goes to the 25th anniversary Salena statue on the bayfront."
People of CC "This will end well...."
White People of CC--"We've seen this movie before."
CC city planners "oye vato--- why are we two years behind schedule to build a bridge after only 6 months of building? Like how's that even possible homie?"
CC tax office "Because you pendejos keep stealing too much money and we can't keep up!"
City of CC "We gotta dig faster carna or Exxon gonna move this plant to Tampico and then we all gotta move back to Mexico and that no bueno por nada."
Barge -- "BOOM! Oh sh!t."
People of CC "oh you fvcking idiots."
White People of CC "nobody saw that coming. Ever."
Thomas J Henry "Mother Fvcking Mother fvcker and I'm stuck in the middle of a god damned divorce right now from my wife who I was never married to to begin with! Fvck sh!t hell!"