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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…

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…

When we were able to get back into our house to start mucking, the waters were still too high to place the refuge on the curb. This image is permanently burned into my brain.

With neighborhoods returning to a state of "normal", we are surrounded by scars of what Harvey did to us. From tire gouges in grass, to waterlines still visible on fences, the memories of Harvey are still so visible.

Just one house in our neighborhood of 250 homes which 80 were flooded

This was a picture of my initial evacuation with my two dogs (note the kennels labeled appropriately with dogs names and phone number). Earlier that day a friend and myself were celebrating as Harvey had finally dissipated and my home was still dry;…

This image was taken after about half of the remediation of my home had been finished, and the house had started to disappear behind the wreckage... Every day I saw people searching through the piles of refuse looking for anything salvageable. It…

A few days after the dam release I made my way back (in a kayak) to my home to rescue a few key items... The yard was still flooded, and the pool was only marginally visible through the murky bayou/sewer waters. Although the vines in the planter…

A poem that I composed about Hurricane Harvey.