When the roads turned to rivers: Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2017
- "People are more resilient than you think," says a Houston resident. Watch this Washington Post original documentary on how Southeast Texas is dealing with the devastation Harvey left behind. Subscribe to The Washington Post on RUclips: bit.ly/2qiJ4dy
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As a native Houstonian we thank all the civilians and the Cajun navy for rescuing and being HEROES. While it was horrible and some past, it was Humanity at its best, no politics no race, everyone helping everyone.
I remember, Academy Sports ran out of boats, and there's like 8 of them
Amen. Thank you to everyone for helping us during this terrifying time.
Facts!!
Texans seem to be very very nice ppl helping one another out ... God Bless You Texas .... from 🇨🇦
77sandy49 yes from montreal 🙏
I have lived all over the USA and now in Texas. Let me be the first to tell you most Texans have compassion for others and are quick to get involved and lend their neighbors a helping hand. I've been through several major hurricanes since living here and it's always the same. I wouldn't suggest looting though because you have a much higher chance of catching a bullet if doing so which is great in my opinion lol.
I live in Houston and This is one reason I love living here even from last years tax day flood
Not because of flood because most ppl are really nice
Gotta love Canadians
Houston and New Orleans have such a special relationship from their shared tragedies. I remember the mayor of New Orleans saying after Katrina that if Houston was ever in that kind of trouble, New Orleans would be the first to lend their help. They’ve either come or sent supplies for every flood since. Not long after Harvey, New Orleans had a tropical storm. You couldn’t drive a single block in Houston without seeing signs for one of the many donation drives benefiting New Orleans.
it’s sad that over 60 people don’t get to see their loved ones anymore [atleast they are in a better place now.]
It's amazing how people can come together to help each other out...
Suicide Betties I know it's called compassion I like it
Suicide Betties yes ❤️
CartoonComedy who doesn't?
That's sad, you know there's people out there that actually lost loved ones and you're using that on RUclips to get subscribers, SMDH
Suicide Betties only with a disaster
I am not an American citizen but working in Houston. For 2 weeks, we are trying our best to volunteer. Damages caused by Harvey is beyond what is shown here. We went to Sierra Sugarland, Kathy and few more places around Houston. It would take months for most of the houses to be rebuilt with FEMA running out of money and unfortunately Hurricane Irma along with few more are on it's way. Many houses are beyond repair and planned to be demolished in Kathy. God bless US.
Thank you for helping my city 💕 means a lot!!
As a Native Texan & hurricane survivor.......thank you to the Cajun Navy & ALL who helped. Together we will survive. Thank you !!
Looking back on this in '23, I really thank the Cajun Navy for rescuing me and my family! God bless you guys for all that you do. We may have lost material things, but we were saved...that's all that matters. Also, shout out to Mattress Mack!! He did an outstanding job helping Houston!
I love my city!! #HoustonStrong #TexasStrong
#HoustonStrong #HustleTown #RunAsOne #WeAreTexans
Watching this never gets old. Cajun navy was and continues to be a godsend. So proud to call Louisiana my neighbor.
"Don't wait on the help, we are the help" now That's a great American!
Jon Bridgers, CEO, Cajun Navy 2016.
Houston here, WE really appreciate the help from the *Cajun Navy.* truly.
I was there, right in Beaumont. Got pounded for days. My sister passed away during this time so my entire family was there and had noting... We couldn't do anything for anybody except watch the water rise. We lost water service and ran out of food... Still, we did what we could and stayed together and survived. Everybody helped their neighbors and helped strangers.... That was the lesson there. People need to help people. We'll get by..
As someone who was rescued by a member of the Cajun Navy in Kingwood, Tx during Harvey I say thank you!!!
Hey, hope you're okay right now. I know the flooding yesterday and today was bad there.
I live in kingwood also and I remember them at the storm. And yes flooding was bad here
We live North of Houston, in an area that was badly damaged by Harvey. I've lived here my whole life and never seen the water so high.
It's a very rural area, my street is a 3 mile road with only about 10 houses. My cousin and good friend lived on either side of me.
We had driven down the street to see how high the water had risen; the last time we had looked it was about 5 feet over the road at the low point.
When we made it to this point, there was a car with almost the whole front end submerged. When we walked up to it, there was a young woman crying in her car. She was here from Africa visiting family. Driving from Houston to Lufkin, she had somehow made it down our street and got lost. Thinking since she had made it in okay, she tried to go back through, but it was too deep.
She was so terrified. She didn't know anyone here and barely spoke English. She was just sitting on her car crying, water almost level with the bottom of the drivers seat.
We pulled her out of the car and put her in my truck. We took our jackets and gave them to her to dry off with in the truck while the three of us spent almost an hour pushing that damn car up the road and out of the water. We left it on the side of the road and took her to our homes, where she stayed for a week until the roads were cleared to drive her to her family in Lufkin.
We still keep in touch with her on Facebook. She was a very sweet woman and was so grateful we were there for her, I'm glad we were too.
Well u can rescue me anytime honey.
It's impressive to see that it actually recoverd in 3 years
It did. But it’s 2020. The next harvey is probably a couple of months away. 🤷🏽♂️
@@Deex26252 It's name will most likely be Laura.
Lucy Lerma I was in Katy waiting to ride the wave and it never came!!!
It's over. They will never get rid of the mold that will haunt them for the next 30+ years. I've seen houses in flooded neighborhoods before and I'm telling you the mold will just start to reappear even after new sheet rock and paint. It is a nightmare.
Bruce Villa glad my house didn't get flooded. Got very close. Got within a few inches of my front door.
No, do it right and no problem. We know how down here in hurricane land.
Washington Post World Wide
I have mold in the back of the house!! I fixed the roof..but was unable to fix the inside. There are a lot of us that suffered damage and we are still living in our homes!! The City of Houston offered grants ..so me and my sister applied for help and we were approved!! But the the pandemic hit and everything has been delayed but we are still blessed!!
@@Melody615199999 The humidity won't ever let it dry out.
I'm in Texas right now in the aftermath of Harvey is devastating
This is my neighborhood at 8:40 ! Bless the EZ Mart Food Store owners. They are really nice people.
@cezza north side? What neighborhood? It looks familiar bit I can't place it.
10:25 that house though.
Man Buy your self a house that's on top of a hill great ideas
lol, I hadn't noticed. I bet it got water, this is probably after the water receded a bit. But if not, they got pretty lucky.
Super- mat88 j
No hills in Houston dude. Flatter than a pancake
yeah and if you got any other bright ideas for houstionans by all means let us know
There are no hills in Houston my dude.
Its been almost 3 weeks, we lost everything and seeing the rescue videos put me in tears, it was a day we will never forget ☹️
As always, Texas and surrounding states work together to help each other out. We show the world how to work together... everytime. Blessed to be a Texan!
God bless for all you from the 🇬🇧 your all as strong as ever and you will stay strong . Xxxxx
It breaks my heart that this happens to People & Animals. .. When you have no choice but to leave your home - something you've worked for for your whole life and you come back and it's destroyed - man that really must be hard... 😦😦😦
People are awesome.
I was in MD Anderson during this. Most surreal time I have experienced. Even now it brings very strong emotions from me.
So much gratitude to the Cajun Navy and all volunteers!
I lived through this. I still see people in need and the ruins, but you know know what? We’re still helping each other! I love my city. #Houston2Gether
Alberto
Are y’all better now
NEW YORK SPORTS FAN Yes we are, been living in Houston for almost my entire life and this was the worst storm in our city. Everything has slow down after a few weeks. My grandparents house got affected bad so we helped out believe it or not it’s still not finished and, the aftermath was bad it looked like a war zone had happened, all that trash outside peoples house, cars abandoned in the middle of the streets lines of people to get food from stores, I have never heard so many helicopters come and go in hours, the empty roads and the anxiety of when will it stop raining. That’s what it was our rival school ( Thompson Intermediate ) was flooded really bad. But now we are fine it’s just all about building back our city and let this tragedy be our lesson.
It is so nice to see so many people help!
Its so comforting seeing people working together. GOD bless us Americans. Despite what the world says about us PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING we got eachother. Rich and Poor Employed Unemployed Cat Dog baby grandma it doesnt matter. NMLB..
Hope all affected by Hurricane harvey make a speedy recovery. Please send any help you can to families in need.
God bless these volunteers
This country has gone through some things in the past year. It is clear that we are divided more that we have ever been. God wants us to come together and help each other out no matter the race or color. People of Texas, you will overcome this!
So thankful for the resilience of people. Feeling for them all as they rebuild their lives again. It happened so fast!
Im happy to say even people from my home state nebraska also went down to help. I now live in austin and i myself went down to help. I was always raised to help others regardless if they need the help or not.
Gods bless everyone of these people that went to Texas to help everyone out. And to every resident of Houston and all the surrounding area that got hit by Harvey and the insane amount of rain.
It is so beautiful to see the people helping each other in these climatic disruptions!
Torturing myself reliving this nightmare as we wait for Laura to do her damage to us again. Thos was the scariest thing I have ever been through.
Merci beaucoup Cajun Navy! Tonnerre! Mais ça c'est bon!
Texans help themselves.
Helping each other is great!
As a native Houstonian, this is why we are the greatest city on earth. We have the strongest spirit and resilience of anybody. They said we would never be the same and almost 2 years later we are stronger than ever.
I have decided to dedicate myself to helping those in need after natural disasters. I hope I can help save lives someday.
Awe, people = love
Me and some of my friends had gone to Texas and helped them, the scene was horrible. I found some other fellow helpers too
I’m drowning in tears. God bless you all. I hope this doesn’t have to happen- to anybody. Cause nobody deserves to experience this.
GOD BLESS ALL THE PEOPLE WHO CARE FOR OTHERS !!!!! 💞💓💞
Just watching this still makes me cry. God bless Texas, and the Cajun Navy
I am from San Antonio and we went down to Houston with our jet ski’s and the entire drive down there we contemplated to turn around as the weather was getting worse but we knew we had to go help out our fellow Texans knowing they would do the same for us. Came back terribly sick The water was so cold and it was impossible to stay dry
I’ve never lived in Texas but I wouldn’t mind it because I see the people are great. They are so loving
we are...come join us!! we need more great people like you!!
Beautiful.
This is foretold from the indigenous ancestors. .
I was at work during this. I work for the city itself, I was stranded at work for 3 days. It was near impossible for me to go home without running the risk of flooding my car out. It was surreal. Thank god that the McDonald's on Westheimer and Chimney Rock that decided to open.
I spent 2 days helping to pull families out with my kayak and being a born and raised Houstonian, I'm wasn't surprised to see EVERYONE lending a helping hand. That's just who we are as Texans!
We Texas strong 💪🏼love to all my people
That's so sad I feel so sorry for everybody God-bless you all
That who we are when something like this happen we all way help each other.God bless
I’ve got friends that have lost everything and man I am blessed that my section was one of the only places that didn’t get any water
MY UNCEASING PRAYERS FOR PEOPLE IN HOUSTON
Bless their hearts ♥️
God bless these people with their boats who risked their lives to help others
Every time hurricane season comes around I think of Harvey. My family and I were lucky to not get any damage but I know many who did. I hope we are spared this time around
I was the same, there is a clip in this video of people evacuating my neighborhood
Feel soo bad for all those in houston porto rico and florida mexico too my good thoughtsand all my prayers go out to all those effected by this trajic event amen love you all
Our house is up off the ground and I remember watching the hurricane that night while my family was sleeping and seeing the water just keep rising and I woke them all up cuz even though we were feet off the ground the water was touching the bottom of the house and coming up through the porch and I thought oh crap its not gonna stop.. and I just sat there praying and praying and it finally stopped right before it came in.. if I walked down off the porch into my driveway/ yard.. it was up past my waist to my chest pretty much.. I lived in southeast Texas my whole life and I never would thought it get that bad.. I know there would be some flooding but like the normal usual amount.. I still remember sitting there trying to see in the dark thinking my eyes were tricking me and got a flashlight to see that it was in fact flooding and I couldn't believe how fast it seemed like that water rise.. and I just kept thinking omg please don't be like Katrina.. plz let the water stop rising.. finally it did..
Years later and there's still damage to the house and stuff in the yard and nothing I can do about it..
I was born in Baytown, TX and grew up in Cedar Bayou. I haven't lived there since 1963 and was there in 1961 when Hurricane Carla hit. Cedar Bayou is just a small community located on the Cedar Bayou River. To think over 50 inches of rain was dropped there by Hurricane Harvey is unimaginable. The most rain ever in the history of the U.S. When I lived there it was just small moderate houses in a rural area. Now very high end homes line the banks of Cedar Bayou. The home I lived in since birth is still there and in January this year I drove the 800 miles from where I now live to visit friends. I drove to see that home and it was gutted of dry wall but looks like the current owner intends on rebuilding it. Houston are was lucky not to have the winds but days of rain and flooding caused extensive damage. One thing I know about Texans they are strong and will rebuild with or without outside help.
Right now solar flowers would be great to get particularly the small towns to give them an energy source. I hope Houston doesn't continue to build at the rate that is expected. Concrete and asphalt exacerbates flooding problems.
T Mc they need more wetlands for the water to go
I will cry right now 😢😟😭😭😭
I was in Vidor, tx when Harvey came. Our house did not flood, but the same can not be said for our neighbors. We offered to help people on the way out but we were kicking ourselves for not having a boat. I remember watching the water rise up and over Brookhollows gate and all I could think was "these people won't have anything to come home to".
I really hope my dad and step mom is ok
I miss the storm it did damage but it brought all of us together and made the rest of 2017 and on to 2018 good years for us
Rip to those 60 people
I was sleeping in my house chilling throughout all this didn't realize
Really really sorry
I thank God for you all
This is sad,every one be careful
My thing is why didn’t they tell us to evacuate
right we never got told till it was too late and blocked in
Learn your history. See what happened when Hurricane Rita approached and those people tried to evacuate.
I hope everyone is okay
My heart going out to the survivors time to rebuild wish things could be better wish i can help.So i send my prayers to the ones who lost there lives rest in peace that could of happen to any city its hard to prepare for things like that
I live in Wharton texas which is below Houston and by time the new said to evacuate the water was too high already to get out there was no where to go it was horrible
Its so sad that this many people have to go through this. I'm watching this because a category four is coming my way. The worst part is I live in a 1 story house. I'm like a lot of other people I like when it rains or maybe one or two inches of floods. Even a small hurricane possibly category 2 gets me excited. This category four hurricane coming up gets me kind of scared. :(
i dont understand how it all happened so fast dang natures scary thank god everyones ok
i actually know the person who's house burned in the video and it was really bad they truly lost anything the had was gone
Imagine all that water but not enough to put fire out, what a position to be in
My son and boat was used for rescue operations, boat came back scared but it was worth it
😔 unfortunately lost my nephew to Harvey
AJ Delgado god damn bro I'm so sorry
AJ Delgado
Out of the millions who live there, 50 died. The chance of you lying is almost 100%.
Shark Wave 100% 😂
Im really sorry about that may god protect ypu and youre familly
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The sad pro is that FEMA didn't help as much as we hoped tons of people got denied help me and my family got over 6 ft of water and still got denied help but I love how after all the country was going through we still stood together to help one another
8:03 well that dude is in good spirit in a time of crisis. good for him!
I was literally in the neighborhood after harvey @ 6:04...
That is not bad,,, at all ..
In brookside we got hit with at least 4 ft, shit was scary as fuck
Used to be 125$ billion dollars in damages well now it’s 195$ billion dollars in damages now, Harvey is now the Costliest hurricane ever
It was hard for me bcuz where i lived got really flooaded and i was freaking out bcuz i thougth this wad it for me and my family
i was there. my house was not flooded but water went in my garage
It was maybe one of the worst storms that came to Houston next to tropical storms Allison and hurricane's Rita and Ike parts of the city are still in need of help repairing
#Houstonstrong
Me watching this in shock and amazed at how high the water was 👁👄👁 when I was there and I got flooded as well lmao.
When the guy said “worst I’ve ever seen it” he was not lying!!! People who’ve never ever flooded before were neck deep in their own house. Me, my mom and brother and his family had to go through the bayou (!!!) to escape and get to safety. The boats picked up a couple people but never came back
Wow that would be awful to loose all your possessions in a flood, and then loose your house to a fire as well.
So sad
Dale Green stfu you like 8 years old... people lost lives in this hurricane
Dale Green the least you can do is have some damn respect
Be great full for what you have because in a second it could be gone
God bless the Cajun Navy!
I was looking at these things think where does the water go in the ground right?
You have it all covered it might not have been so bad uncover the ground.
Don't want to be that guy. But this shows what the media don't covey which is people helping people regarding if they're from a different race or have a different pigment color.
Exactly. The media is good for one thing: spreading fear. They're not there to inspire us or unite us, that's for sure.
Nunya Biznis but they would if it sold, saddly it dosent
Yea did you notice how 99% of the victims in this video were minorites and 100% of the people rescuing were white.
bR R3AP3R idc what this video shows... Texans help Texans regardless of age, race, or social status... it's just what we do in Texas.
Justin Combs lol I lived in Texas for 6+ years. My point is this video is fucked up because white people weren't the only ones that helped. You can see people in the comment section saying racist shit like "thank god for white people"
This just grazed the actual damage of the city as a whole
Harvey got down 😂🤣👏🍻
Snakes can't bite you under water .