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August 28, 2017
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No Mercy

Melani Zurawski cries while inspecting her home in Port Aransas, Texas, on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017.
(Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
Harvey Wreaks Havoc across State of Texas

HOUSTON (AP) — Tropical keep up with the constant Hurricane Katrina, helicop- swam. pinpointing the worst areas.
Storm Harvey sent devas- calls for help. ters landed near flooded Volunteers joined emer- They urged people to get
tating floods pouring into The incessant rain cov- freeways, airboats buzzed gency teams to pull peo- on top of their homes to
the nation’s fourth-largest ered much of Houston in across submerged neigh- ple from their homes or avoid becoming trapped
city Sunday as rising water turbid, gray-green water borhoods and high-wheel from the water, which was in attics and to wave sheets
chased thousands of peo- and turned streets into riv- vehicles plowed through high enough in places to or towels to draw attention
ple to rooftops or higher ers navigable only by boat. water-logged intersections. gush into second floors. The to their location.
ground and overwhelmed In a rescue effort that re- Some people managed flooding was so widespread
rescuers who could not called the aftermath of with kayaks or canoes or that authorities had trouble Continued on Page 2