Harvey...

Wow, what a mess! The hurricane was predicted to come right through the Houston area, and as always we prepared a little bit. We got some water, extra food, and our generator working. Nobody really expected it to be as bad at is was. The rains came, and they never left. It just kept raining and raining and raining. We were so incredibly lucky throughout the whole situation. We never lost electricity. The waters ended up flooding houses only about 3/4 mile away from us. We were watching high water rescues happening all over town. People were using boats and kayaks to rescue people all over town. It was so scary. I never really panicked except for one night when there were people all over our neighborhood app asking for immediate rescue! It was scary because you never just knew what was going to happen. Houses were fine one minute, and then had water creeping in the next! In the end, we had quite a few friends houses that flooded, the girls' school flooded, and our YMCA flooded. Even though things in our lives changed a little bit, I am so grateful that our house was fine. After the flood waters receded, people were all over the neighborhood helping others and doing what they could. One night, I went down to the Red Cross shelter down at George R. Brown. It was so heartbreaking! There were so many families down there that had made their own little "homes" out of the cots and blankets they were given. There were people with their pets and older people all alone. It was so sad to see how hopeless their situations seemed.