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Donated clothing had to be sorted and organized by volunteers at the NRG Center shelter. This shelter was opened under orders from Harris County Judge Honorable Ed Emmett after the George R. Brown Convention Center shelter reached capacity.

View of the southbound lanes of Almeda Road near El Paseo St. looking towards 610. Several feet of standing water made the road impassable.

A panoramic shot inside of the George R Brown Convention Center showing those displaced by the storm and the donations contributed to aid those displaced. Picture was taken on top of a 12ft+ pile of clothes

With 50+ inches of rain in 4 days dropping 19 trillion gallons of water, 40000+ homes (and counting) destroyed, thousands of families displaced from their homes, all major rivers, levees, and bayous overflowing above record flood levels inundating…

The day after the storm ended, water was rising in the previously dry neighborhood between Memorial Drive and Kimberley just east of Beltway 8 as controlled releases from the reservoirs flooded Buffalo Bayou. I took my kayak out to see if there was…

An interview with Dr. Joshua Furman, Founding Director of the Houston Jewish History Archive (HJHA) at Rice University, and Dr. Melissa Kean, Centennial Historian at Rice University.

Topics include memories of flooding in Meyerland; the impact of…

We had evacuated to higher ground and we were checking that the water level hadn’t gotten into the house everyday by accessing the camera on our doorbell remotely.

Here's a link to a Harvey story I wrote about Sodexo chef Sean Lewis's contribution during Harvey: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflecting-harvey-from-inside-kitchen-michelle-lenzen/

On April 4, 2018, Sean was killed in a motorcycle accident.…