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Preparing for high water rescues.

The passage below, I wrote a week after my house flooded during Harvey, with both humor and heaviness:

For the past week I’ve been trying my best to avoid puns related to water. I never realized how many are out there! But I just can’t hold…

In this image police officers with Rice University along with Rice EMS personnel assisted with the emergency transport of a woman who was in labor. She was safely taken to a hospital in the Texas Medical Center. The patient was brought in by a…

Rice University police officers and Rice University EMS student volunteers and staff assisting with the evacuation of elderly patients from a nursing home. Patients were brought in by a military Blackhawk that landed in the Rice Football stadium…

An entire neighborhood in Baytown was flooded, you can barely see the house in this photo.

The water was rising and we started putting our furniture upstairs. Thankfully it never got in the house.

The ground floor of Brompton Court. It smelled like rot. The soles of my shoes stuck to each stair step. For a long time after Harvey, Brompton amassed tall piles of trash—furniture and appliances. These washers looked like forgotten refugees.