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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 them in neighboring front yards. Our shed seems to have pulled through, after flooding, without replacing any boards. The electric tools, that were on the floor of the shed, weren't so lucky. Our once reliable riding mower has since been testing my husbands patience and handyman skills. My neighbor did retrench the ditch between our properties. Some neighbors had their ditches dug deeper by the county. The golf course has repainted the outside of their community center but still their fence lays scattered on the edge of the golf course. Homes in our neighborhood boasts on their for sale signs "No Flooding". Long gone are the days where they said "Pool and Spa". Employees have stopped telling me that they've lost their car, their home, their livestock, their cousin, their everything due to that storm. I no longer receive calls from the school that my daughter had yet another accident because 5 weeks after Harvey she is still traumatized from that storm. I don't call the insurance company anymore, I moved on. And together we're moving forward in our community. Together, we've hugged we've cried and now today we'll remember how we once became Huffman Strong.
Creator
Rachel White
Title
On Harvey's Anniversary
Type
personal narratives
Language
en
Rights
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Source
This item was contributed via the Harvey Memories Project "Contribute an Item" form.
Date Created
2018-08-25
Date Submitted
2018-08-26
Date Available
2018-08-26
Spatial Coverage
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Huffman
Temporal Coverage
start=2017-08-25; end=2018-08-25; scheme=ISO 8601;