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HURRICANE AFTERMATH - HOMES DESTROYED IN THE HOUSTON FLOOD - September 2017 These are just 2 small areas right by my house Meyerland and Willowbend/Meyerpark neibghourhoods.... around our daily route to my son school which was effected as well... He had only 2 days of school in August 23, 24 and then we were lucky enough to start back up on Sept 11th.. My tire went flat form loose nails on streets... :( WE BAKED SOME CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES AND DROVE AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR FEW DAYS AND GAVE WATER, COLD GATORADE TO PEOPLE ON STREETS CLEANING UP... WE ALSO VISITED ALMOST 99 YEAR OLD GREAT GRANDMA... Previous: Good Bye - Houston TX Aug 29 2017 1PM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg1Cddtn9RU&t SUBSCRIBE: http://youtube.com/TexasGirly1979 and http://youtube.com/HelensVlogs ... HERE IS ARTICLE - EXACTLY HOW I FEEL... "Harvey Survivor's Guilt: Untouched by hurricane, everything is fine — but it really isn't" They say it will take months, maybe years, for the city to return to normal. Maybe by then when someone asks how we are doing we can say fine. And really be fine. http://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/09-04-17-hurrican-harvey-survivors-guilt-column-abby-koenig/ I feel guilty just writing this. Hurricane Harvey came to Houston, and my home and family and I are fine. On the Thursday before the storm, my husband told me that his office would be closed the next day, and probably the following Monday. “This is so stupid,” I replied, “It’s not even supposed to start raining until Friday night.” The whole thing was a bother, even more so when I found out my sons’ daycare would also be closed that Friday and probably the following Monday. That meant I’d have my twin three-and-a-half year-old boys for four days straight! Ugh. On Friday, the boys and I went to the mall and walked around and window shopped. It started raining lightly around noon. “It’s not even going to do anything!” But it did. A lot. Friday night it began to pour and pour and pour. My husband and I began to worry. We had been in Houston through Hurricane Ike but not in our current home, and even though we had not had any troubles previously, it was becoming quickly apparent that this was different. Like most Houstonians we turned on the news Friday night and didn’t stop watching for the next three days. Once Harvey made landfall the texts began. “You guys OK?” “What’s going on there?” “We’re watching the TV, is it bad?” Like many in the city, we are transplants. Our friends and family watched the horrors on the national news with little context of how the city functioned. But we were fine. Like… fine. Glued to TV We spent the next few days glued to the TV, to Facebook, to Twitter, and to our phones. We texted friends, “You okay? What’s happening where you are? Are your kids going crazy? What are you doing? How much junk food are you eating right now? for reals. Is your house still okay?" "Hope we don’t run out of vodka before the rain stops, LOL. Yep, we are still fine. You guys? We are still fine. We are still fine. Are you still fine?” We saw photos of friends in other neighborhoods, the water surrounding their homes, Periscope videos of rising water; some joked, many did not. A friend posted a video of his neighbors being airlifted from his apartment complex, luckily monitoring from the second floor. .. On Tuesday, it started to let up and some roads became drivable. Houston quickly began to marshal efforts, and everyone it seemed was stepping up to help. “Headed to GRB to volunteer.” “Anyone donating, moms need diapers. Desperately.” “ .” “Bring extra water to this drop-off location.” “ .” .. I bemoaned to other parent-friends, “What can we do to help that allows kids?” “How can we help?” “What do people need help with?” “Do you need help?” I JUST WANT TO HELP! .... READ MORE ON ORIGINAL LINK ABOVE... MUSIC CREDIT: "Cryptic Sorrow" Instruments: Piano Feel: Eerie, Somber, Dark Sad solo piano with a "reality" feel. Uneven meters. ISRC: USUAN1100276 Uploaded: 2006-01-01 "Cryptic Sorrow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ SHARKY the American Pit Bull Terrier: http://facebook.com/PitBullSharky http://twitter.com/pitbullsharky http://web.stagram.com/n/pitbullsharky http://youtube.com/PitBullSHARKY http://uniteddogs.com/en/dog/PitBullS... http://pitbullsharky.blogspot.com pitbullsharky@gmail.com MAX-ARTHUR the Snowshoe Cat: http://facebook.com/pages/MAXtheRoomb... http://youtube.com/MAXtheRoombaCAT http://twitter.com/MAXtheRoombaCAT http://myspace.com/maxtheroombacat HELEN aka texasgirly1979: http://www.HelensPets.com http://youtube.com/HelensVlogs http://youtube.com/texasgirly1979 http://twitter.com/texasgirly1979 http://myspace.com/texasgirly1979 http://zazzle.com/texasgirly1979 http://texasgirly1979.blogspot.com/