Hurricane Harvey

Hurricane Harvey — page 1
CHAPTER ONE A FLOODED CITY In the early morning hours of August 27 2017 a thudding sound woke Yvonne Ferguson Smith She ran to the bathroom in her wood frame house The sound had been her bathroom ceiling collapsing after days of heavy rain The floor was littered with pieces of damp drywall Within the next few hours floodwaters submerged the stairs outside of her home and began to spill into her living room Ferguson Smith realized she and her family would have no choice but to leave The storm surge from Hurricane Harvey was quickly flooding their home Two days earlier the hurricane had made landfall near Corpus Christi Texas hundreds of miles southwest of Ferguson Smith's home in northeastern Houston Some Texas residents climbed into rescue boats once the area began to flood