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As the rains fell and the water rose on August 27, the families on Hazelton Street in the Willowbend neighborhood in Houston knew their neighborhood was in trouble. We could see streets that were now rivers. Several families began going door to door…

This story actually starts about a year before Harvey, on July 7 2016 when my father passed away at the age of 59, it seemed it sent my life spinning in a snowball that is only now starting to slow down. After his death, and funeral my brother,…

Let me start off by saying that most of this was written about a week after the storm hit and touched up in the last week as we approached the one year mark of Harvey. These recollections are in no way a complete - hardly - debrief of my experiences…

It's been a year ago today that Harvey came and destroyed so many innocent lives and livelyhoods. It seems not too long ago, the deluge of storms and sirens going off warning of tornadoes nearby. My son sleeping through this while I stayed up…

I’m a nurse at a local area hospital. I was scheduled to work Sunday August 27th, Harvey was just making its way into Houston it was raining but not badly, I told my husband I would drive carefully. I had been stuck at work for hurricane Ike in…

2 days after the flood, a friend called and asked my wife and I to stay with him. Neither he nor I knew how long we would stay, but he and his family were more than generous. Then when the water receded, he helped with generators and other…

The first full evening of the storm, the Rice University Provost called me and asked that the Doerr Institute for New Leaders team with the Center for Civic Leadership to create Rice's volunteer response to the need in Houston. In order to…