I’m in an area that Harvey hit HARD. The entire community came together to help each other, people in lifted trucks and boats were pumping gas to evacuate neighbors from flooded zones. At work, many of my coworkers had children at home or at babysitters that they couldn’t get to because the roads were flooded. It flooded so badly, when the rain subsided for a while I took a walk up the main road and in the distance all I could see was the top of the stop signs. Houston has rebuilt, homes got torn down & built back up, but everytime there’s a strong storm everyone gets worried.

We Houstonians are strong and resilient! In times of crisis, we always try to help one another! #HoustonStrong

I'm really amazed how they raised that bungalow like that. I want to see that process from start to finish.

Building on land that’s meant to soak up the water. That’s how you get the catastrophic flooding.

7 kids, lost your job, and have a daughter with leukemia. Now that's a hard hand to deal with.

The moment he said 'my daughters cancer free' I smiled wide as all hell

Where was Joel Osteen during the christians time of need, and you people still go to Lakewood, church and giving Joel your hard earned money.

It wasnt the actual rain fall that damaged the majority of the neighborhoods that got hit the hardest.... It was the desicion to release the overflowing dams to the north and west that sent it overboard, in turn flooding an already over saturated area.

Harvey entered Texas with the goal of going big or go home. He went big

Htown til I drown and mind you I almost did.

Being a Houston Native, raised and born, this hurts all over again. It's like Harvey never left

You know what they say “Everything is bigger in Texas” Hurricane Harvey: That’s true!!!

Salute to all my Texan neighbors

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It hurt to see a lot of fellow Houstonians being affected by this massive storm. It didn't affect my area that much, but it affected everyone around me. I bought 8 cases of water to help those people affected around me.

The woman was wearing an Astros shirt, it hits home big time I live in Conroe and was from Houston. Everyone pulled together and got behind the Astros and they made us forget. I was lucky to suffer no damage, was just flooded in several days but thankful! HOUSTON STRONG!

I lived in Dickinson tx where I lost everything from Harvey, my wife and my 3 beautiful kids will never be the same and also my kids get really scared every time the rain comes because they feel that it will flood all over again.

I remember going to work, buying essentials. Bought dog and rabbit food. Then the flooding came. I was out of work for 2 weeks, then the announcement that DACA was to end. It really was such a stressful time.

Luckily I live on a 2nd floor apartment, so I didn’t get flooded. I took my truck and waited out the storm in Katy, TX. Many many of my neighbors were not so lucky.

Lesson is: don’t build or buy anywhere even remotely close to a flood plain. Increased urban sprawl makes it difficult to predict future parameters in flood plain analysis.

God Bless you all for helping out! What a great community spirit.....!! 61 days to put a house up is incredible. Praying this will never happen to Houston or any other city in the US again........Stay strong, Folks!! 🙏🏼❤️💪🏼👍🏼

let me guess, the next upcoming story is how the real heroes of 9/11 were actually Realtors too

Thank fully my family and I wasn't affected that much.

So thankful that we were not impact. My hubby and I walked from Midtown to 288 (a few blocks from us), to downtown, to Waugh and Taft, and over to S. Shepherd and Memorial documenting the damage. I am really sad that the Spaghetti Warehouse closed down but it had been hit with several floods given its proximity to Buffalo Bayou. I lived on Brase Bayou during Allison and had never seen so much water. The Meyerland area used to never flood but I know during Harvey the area had significant damage.

September 2017, I was serving my 6th year in the Air National Guard, I've been overseas, and this by far was the most impactful chapter of my career. I was fighting to get an Active Duty spot when this hurricane hit Houston. I remember alot of unknown between how we were going to get Into Houston, whether helicopter, or vehicle. We finally got mobilized and were initially tasked with high water rescue, that quickly changed due to people's animalistic ideologies, we were then tasked to lock down and secure some of the worst stricken places in Houston. We were working with local Law Enforcement attempting to stop looting, due to crime in the area sky rocketing. I remember going through neighborhoods and seeing the absolute desolation the hurricane had produced, there was trash and furniture higher than the houses themselves, in the streets. I remember vividly going through a two story apartment complex that had running waters over the roof of it just a day earlier, and clearing it out looking for survivors or bodies through my NVGs. But most importantly and most impactful of all, I remember how everyone came together to help, people bringing us food, people that had lost everything, coming up to us and thanking us for protecting their last valuables and cherished items. They had lost everything, and had seemingly nothing to give, but they gave. We gave, we sat, we talked, we listened, we helped. Regardless of political climate, regardless of your individual beliefs about America, I first hand saw what Americans truly are, blacks, whites, Mexicans, it didnt matter, we all stood together and did what we could to protect one another. Although there were some that looted, and violated the law, most helped, most cared, and most although losing everything, gave their all. Between the unfortunate deceased and sick we came together as one and helped each other. This is the most impactful chapter of my 8 year career so far, helping fellow countrymen. Although I'm Active Duty now, this will always resonate with me on the deepest levels.

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I become homeless for months after Harvey did not get a house again till mid 2018

I lost my house to Harvey, and this video really brought me back

it was all very touching but the most touching was that little girl with leukemia! i hope she gets full recovery and never have cancer again!

I thought everyone in Texas rode horses

Survey says, Steve Harvey damaged Houston big time

Huh - maybe climate change is real? Do you think? Talk about federal funding helped the well-to-do while less influential neighborhoods were ignored.

Father of 7? Give your wife a break man.

Im from houston. Got flooded out and got relocated out of state. I miss houston but fuck the flooding.

This is what happens when you build a city on a floodplain.

7 kids? Looks like he had a lot of free time. The number of children directly correlates to the level of education. Poor people tend to have more kids.

Still know people trying to get back in their homes. Since I've moved here after getting out of the Air Force, I've been through two hurricanes in my home. Ike was primarily a wind event for me, almost going directly over my house, and then Harvey, which was a water event. Thankfully made it relatively intact through both (lost some fence from Ike, lost power for two weeks), stayed dry through Harvey, water did come up half way up the yard. After Harvey, finally bought the flood insurance, that $300-400 a year buys a lot of relief. Just it's not a question of if it's coming again, but when. I will seriously think about moving back to East Texas after I retire, seen enough hurricanes for the rest of my life!

My family and all of our neighbors got two feet of water in our houses. Luckily my parents are architects and new what to do when it came to construction. We lived in the same house for about 4 months without walls and many common appliances before we moved into a rent house close by that wasnt flooded. We moved into our new house built on the same property about two months before the two year anniversary of Harvey, August 28. People are still moving back into their houses although most of my neighborhood is still deserted. Many people got small budgets for renovations from flood insurance not being able to raise or rebuild their house. Houston is still recovering and probably will be for many years to come. But houston remained strong, many people in the community coming together to help each other. Houston strong!!

If affected far more than just Houston. It was horrible.

Most of my family is still in Texas. Some lost just about everything and are still fighting to get a bit of a life back after Harvey. I wish places like this, would talk about more then just Houston though. Cause Houston is not the only part that flooded nor were they the only ppl who lost everything. After living most of my life in Texas, and dealing with that, I can never live in a area again where I have to fear water that much. Natural disasters happened everywhere, so, sadly, you just have to pick a place that has either the fewest of them, or ones you can handle better. And of course, that is if you can EVEN make a choice to leave. Not everyone can.

how cute is that mexican family

What a great ending to what seems like a long 2 year ordeal for that family

I'm still rebuilding from Harvey. Done almost all of it myself, over 75k in damages so far.

Why is it people don,t learn anything.Houses on stilts ,raise the house levels so it doesn’t affect you that much ,it will happen again

0:17 that man on the far right is my spirit animal

I still remember this day. My father had 4/5 of his condos flooded with 3 and half feet of water. His entire life’s work was gone within 24hours. And he’s the worst part. My dad has just got done re doing one of them and we sold it for 80k and was suppose to get the check in hand the day Harvey hit. Some of them are still the frames of an apartment.

I’ve worked with SBP in NYC and Puerto Rico and they are honestly the nicest organization. If you’re looking for a place to volunteer. Volunteer with them

You should of atleast shout out the houston rappers who really helped out they city during hurricane harvy

You should something similar to this on hurricane Michael. Many people forgot about the impact that hurricane Michael has made. As a category 5 hurricane it was the strongest hurricane in the past 70 years. It also took the longest amount of time to receive federal aid to help recovery efforts by more than triple the length of the time for the previous longest time to receive aid. Almost everyone in the Panama City and Mexico beach area had severe damage to their homes. And it caused 1/4 people of bay county to move away. There are still many people who were living comfortably before the storm that are now homeless.

It was honestly mostly the releasing of the Dams that did the most harm.

Harvey wiped out most of rockport tx including my mother's home. No one ever came to help we r still trying to rebuild. The world reached out to the residents of Houston but no one speaks of rockport where the hurricane actually touched ground. It's so disappointing. Houston is a big city while rockport is small so no news reports no fema no help

Really We still can not afford to fix our house And fema gave us 2,000 for our entire house ! Let alone we don’t have a vehicle either WATEVER

Our ditches have been shit for years. They should have redug the ditches & taken the soil somewhere west where its needed. One inch of water can determine alot

The neighborhood right next to mine was completely flooded and I ended up doing volentier work to help people that got water damage. I remember seeing an areal picture of my high school with water coming all the way up to the doors.

This is the deal America needs to build homes in these areas with materials like cement and metal ...... hospitals are not flying away police stations are not flying away anything heavy is not flying away.... take a hint I understand its more expensive probably from 100 k home to 300 k house....

A disaster like this happening was actually completely predictable, but developers decided to ignore the flood risk of the area and built anyway

Harvey ain’t stop nobody !! We steady holdn it down out here in Houston😋

I live in College Station (c/o '17 WHOOP) and was supposed to go see my parents in Stafford. Dad told me to wait. Usually, he exaggerates the severity of the weather forecasts but, this time, he underestimated it. I still didn't go, and water only got halfway up their driveway, thank God. Elevation change from street to the front porch is probably 5'? On a street that hasn't flooded. Ever. The defunct Texas World Speedway right off of Hwy 6 S of CStat housed most of the flooded cars. You could smell the stench even from the highway. It was insane. (I have raced cars there before, too, so it was doubly sickening) Two friends of mine died in Allison, in separate incidents, and I lost a friend in Katrina. Us native Houstonians have seen some sh*t, man. And we always, without fail, manage to band together - the #1 most diverse city in the world - and pick each other back up. Then 1 year later get back to our road rage assaults. Then another disaster brings us all together. We're weird.

And the storms gonna be getting stronger too

I just moved from Florida to Colorado, in part to get away from hurricanes. After going through Irma, I'll take a snowstorm over a hurricane any day.

Am so sorry Hope y’all are better

Which zip codes did not get houses flooded

This Category 4 monster caused Katrina-like damage despite the difference in damage types.

I remember when I went to help people whose homes were flooded it was something out of a movie neighborhood roads were filled with debris and belongings and its something I hope never happens again

How is somebody homeless? Just get a house.

I love my city ❤️

This story was really good. I would like to see one about how people are still living in trailer because of sketchy contractors. How many people signed up to work for a company but never got payed after finishing the job during and after Harvey.

It has very little to do with climate related factors and everything to do with concrete can't absorb water like soil can.

This really makes me feel bad for thos who lost so much .

amazing work they do ❤❤💖true heros

Big homes (over 1000sq ft) on the ground in that area doesn't seem like a good idea. Downsize and put homes on stilts. Save money and the worry of having another Harvey destroy your house.

Lol "optimistic for the future"

Who stands to gain the most from events like this? When you consider post damage and rebuilding.

Well...according to Ben Shapiro "Those people should just sell their homes" lmfao Ik my internet comment means nothing but my heart really does go out to these people.

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Sea levels aren't rising they're actually stable.

I don’t understand how you can rebuild in an area that you know will flood again. Why?

They are allowing builders to build on land that has always been water retention land. Builders gain profit but private people and government have to absorb the cost but the govt let them build.

I was there. Good thing it didnt' hit Spring too hard. So many mansions flooded and ruined. xD

7:08 Now that is what I call foreshadowing.

Watch Earthlings if you don’t want it to keep happening. Saying from a place of love

Steve Harvey's tears.

I had a blast during harvey

Glad I live in Colorado

Why is the music louder that their voices

God bless my hometown Houston and God bless all in Jesus Almighty name! 💯🌈🕊🌈😭🔥❤🚪🙏🏽👑 from Katy,TX

How is Houston doing now?

Yeah, maybe i need to stay in Pennsylvania.🌿

You’re not supposed to change the weather. That’s the first problem

What about just moving.

Adding more regulations to homeowners and sellers??? *gasp* This ridiculous! The free market is good enough to protect us!!

Since i cant talk about Climate Change.. Thoughts & Prayers.

Kashmere Gardens residents still living in moldy houses here and no one cares. Believe me because I’m one of them.

My heart bleeds for the victims in Texas, where Trump sent over $60 BILLION DOLLARS in relief, while Puerto Rico only received $19 billion and people are STILL living in homes with blue tarp as roofs! GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK! Talk about inequality.

I feel ashamed to share the same name as this hurricane

My whole year was ruined because of the storm.

For Trump, Harvey hurricane is just a NORMAL weather phenomena/occurance.

I was trappin on a jet ski wym harvey aint stop shit

HELLO? Nothing mentioned about geo engineering? Weather wars!!! That’s the main problem.

have you looked up into the sky lately? I do because my redemption is drawning near every day.