>>Allen’s Landing?<<
Poor turn of phrase on my part.
Prior to 1900, Galveston was Texas’ primary Gulf port. When The Great Hurricane of 1900 (they didn’t name them back then) hit, they (hardy Texans) not only rebuilt Galveston, after a fashion, but, more importantly, they moved all their critical shipping infrastructure INLAND — to Houston.
Had that hurricane not happened, Houston would be the Lodi of Texas and Galveston probably the State Capital, or at least the political center of gravity in Texas.
Can you imagine people today realizing New Orleans is a huge Mother Nature target and re-establishing it in Alexandria?
Well, Mother Nature may yet make that decision for them.