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The Cajun Army started evacuating people on my street after Harvey had moved on, but the day the damn waters started being released... I was celebrating the end of the storm as my home was still high and dry, but not for long! They warned the water…

I was able to evacuate with my two dogs, but left my birds behind with plenty of food and water as at the time I didn't know where I was going and thought it would be less stressful for them. A few days later I was able to return with an inflatable…

There are a lot of images showing the flooding and post-Harvey destruction... but what about starting from scratch in a vacant house? I was starving for a home-cooked meal and a sense of normalcy. I'm not sure how I could have survived without…

Normally water comes in and recedes within a few days, but due to the damn release, my home was flooded for weeks with no yard available for demolition materials, and no way to get trucks in and out. We couldn't start the remediation until September…

Harvey gave us a bit of a break on August 27th, and as I did not have television service, I went out for a wade to see how things were looking. I took this image from on top of a bridge on Kirkwood running over Terry Hershey park... normally a dry…

A few days after evacuation, but before they had locked down the flooded streets due to help prevent looting, I made my way back on a blowup kayak to pick up a few items of importance. Unfortunately my home had already been looted, but due to the…

A poem that I composed about Hurricane Harvey.

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…

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…

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;…