HOUSTON — The water burbled from the floors of Vickie Carson's
cottage in the semirural northern edge of Houston, saturating everything
she owned.
It seeped through the ceiling of Ebony
Harrison's apartment in the impoverished Sunnyside neighborhood, dousing
her newborn daughter as she slept.
It swept so swiftly into Lidia Peña's rental
home in the city’s north side that she and her young son fled without
taking any spare clothes.
It drove Rick Christie out of his midcentury
ranch house in the southwest Houston neighborhood of Meyerland, leaving
him to sleep on a couch above his garage.
Each of their homes was left uninhabitable by
Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm that plowed through southeast Texas
in late August. Its floodwaters capsized lives of the comfortable and
the struggling, black and white, Latino and Asian. Tens of thousands of
people across spectrums of race and income were left without permanent
places to live, inspiring a newfound saying: Harvey was the storm that
didn’t discriminate.
That may change now that the water is gone.
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