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It all started Aug 28,2017. I was woke you. At 1 and look out my door seening the water covering. The second step to our trailer thinking nothing of it. Went back to. Bed and getting woke up by my husband and daughter at 4 with the water up to the…

Dedicated to all those that Survived and died in the path of Category four Hurricane Harvey
August 29, 2017

Life Goes On
By
Juanita Garcia Vera

Sometimes a lifetime
Is but one brief moment
It’s the brightest star
In the boundless…

August 24th, 2017 my husband, myself, and our then 9monthbold son, left Oregon with everything we could fit in my 2014 Kia Forte. We were on the road to our new home here in Houston.

Some ask why we decided to move THAT weekend, well, reason…

My family and I enjoy the outdoors; we hike, kayak and rock climb as much as possible. We received our first kayak as a gift from my father-in-law, and by the time Harvey hit we each had our own. Since my father-in-law lives in Towne Lake, we kept…

Today, marks a year since Hurricane Harvey left our small community of Huffman. There's not one month that's gone by since last August that I haven't been reminded of Harvey's destruction. FEMA trailers and porta potties now have grass growing around…

Vernon teacher trapped by Hurricane Harvey
Vernon Christian School teacher Melissa Overend was in Texas when the storm struck
CARMEN WELDAug. 30, 2017 3:20 p.m.LOCAL NEWSNEWS






A Vernon teacher was visiting family in Houston, Texas…

A little bit of background first. I am a weather geek, or as I would describe myself, a well-educated layman. I have a background in the natural sciences, and meteorology has always been a fascination of mine. This fascination began when I was 6…

My brother is a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and he invited me to take over his Sunday column in September 2017 to share what it was like to be in Houston during Harvey. This is what I wrote for that column.

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The hometown I…

Harvey was a named storm for only a week, but that name has stayed on our lips since.