Hurricane Harvey
Floodwater After Hurricane Harvey In Houston
In August 28th, 2017, Hurricane Harvey stroke the Southern coast of the United States and destroyed the city of Houston, in the state of Texas. The 4th most populated city in the United States is under the water because of it.
The authorities are afraid that when the water descends the situation could get worse; the damage is worth over billions of dollars.
The mayor of the city, Sylvester Turner, said that the flood puts on risk the life of the citizens. In the first 15 hours, the 911 emergency number received up to 56,000 calls asking for help.
The storm and subsequent flooding left more than 70 people dead and ravaged nearly 300 miles of the Texas coast and parts of Louisiana, flooding homes and displacing more than a million people. As of Friday, more than 21,000 people remain in shelters, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety's situation report.
All told, the storm caused an estimated $75 billion in damage, officials said, making it one of the most expensive natural disasters on record.
After the water, mildew and mold
Most of the people don’t want to leave their homes, they dont have somewhere to go, and prefer to stay and rather remodel the house and start over again, We have a story about it.
Daniela Alvarado and Leonardo Aguirre live in one of these hard-hit Houston areas.
For them, the flooding was a family affair. The damages to their home is much worse than they expected.
"We are buying the house. I mean we are practically almost done paying it. We can't just go somewhere else and start all over. I mean there's something here, I think, to rebuild. So, we are going to try again," Aguirre said. This, after the family just finished remodeling about 90% of their house within the last three months.
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