Battle of the barge on Texas highway…

The stretch of Texas 73 between Port Arthur and Winnie could open by mid-week after two barges dropped on the highway by Hurricane Ike are cut apart and removed.

“We’re ripping them apart, one chunk at a time, and then we’ll haul away the pieces on trucks,” said Jeff Fuller with Xtreme Demolition, an Oak Island-based marine salvage company.

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