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I just found out Shambala is ruled by Maitreya Buddha
It' funny I didn't know that before now. This likely means that His Oneness of Lemuria that I write about could also be Maitreya Buddha. Amazing!
- This word button is about His Oneness who also might be Maitreya Buddha I realize now:
- His Oneness
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
37 dead so far in Texas from Harvey
Political storm: Christie calls Cruz 'disgusting' over aid
Harvey aftermath: Death toll rises; so do the floodwaters
By Holly Yan, Nicole Chavez and Ray Sanchez, CNN
Updated 12:33 AM ET, Thu August 31, 2017
Story highlights
- Harvey is now a tropical depression, with winds of 35 mph
- At least 37 people have been confirmed dead in Hurricane Harvey's aftermath
(CNN)With countless Houstonians still awaiting rescue, Tropical Depression Harvey devoured another Texas city.
The
unrelenting storm unleashed its wrath on a wide swath east of Houston,
leaving thousands stranded in flooded homes and forcing the evacuation
of a nursing facility and even an emergency shelter where residents had
sought refuge.
"Our whole city is underwater right now but we are coming!" Port Arthur Mayor Derrick Freeman posted
Wednesday on Facebook. "If you called, we are coming. Please get to
higher ground if you can, but please try (to) stay out of attics."
At least 37 deaths related to Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath have been reported in Texas. One of them, Houston police Sgt. Steve Perez, drowned while trying to get to work.
"To
those Americans who have lost loved ones, all of America is grieving
with you and our hearts are joined with yours forever," President Donald
Trump said in Springfield, Missouri.
The
storm left record-setting rain in Harris County -- which saw 19 deaths
-- before unleashing 15 inches in the Beaumont area, Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott said.
"While there may still
be flooding, the good news is there shouldn't be any rain in the region
for the next several days," said CNN Meteorologist Taylor Ward.

Evacuees at the Bob Bowers Civic Center in Port Arthur face flooding again as waters rise at the shelter.
Misery in Houston
While heavy rains have ended in the Houston area, more danger looms.
Emergency
workers and throngs of volunteers went door to door for a fifth day
Wednesday, trying to rescue victims of the flood. Houston Police Chief
Art Acevedo said authorities have received 60,000 to 70,000 calls for
help.
"We just pray that the body count ... won't rise significantly." Acevedo said.
The US Coast Guard is searching for two civilian rescuers who were swept away after their boat capsized Tuesday night, the Harris County Sheriff's Office tweeted Wednesday.
Three
volunteers were trying to cross Cypress Creek when their boat crashed
and capsized, sending all three under a bridge. One of the volunteers
was found clinging to a tree.

Torrential downpour submerges parts of Houston 00:56
About
one-third of the Houston area is covered in water. And it's unclear
exactly how many people still need to be rescued, Texas Military
Department spokesman Lt. Col. Travis Walters said.
For the first time since the weekend, authorities said, the flooding in Houston is slowly receding in some areas.
The
Houston Astros announced they will play a doubleheader at home on
Saturday against the New York Mets. The team played the Texas Rangers in
St. Petersburg, Florida, earlier this week because of the hurricane.
Houston
Mayor Sylvester Turner said the home game will provide "a much needed
boost for our city" and offer residents "some aspect of normal life."
But
dangerous flooding will continue from Houston all the way into
southwestern Louisiana for the rest of the week, the National Weather
Service said.
Houses built 'inside a lake' could degrade
Controversy
has surrounded the placement of houses near Houston's Barker and
Addicks reservoirs, especially since floodwater overflowed the latter.

Residents evacuate their homes Tuesday near the Addicks Reservoir in Houston.
"They
allowed them to build homes inside the reservoir. And these homes are
flooded -- 2,500 homes are flooded, some of them up to 5 feet deep," CNN
meteorologist Chad Myers said Wednesday. "They built homes inside a
lake."
And those homes "will be inundated for several weeks," said Jeff Lindner with Harris County Flood Control.
"The closest comparison that I can draw to those homes ... is Hurricane Katrina," Lindner said.
"When water sits in a house for several weeks, the house begins to degrade."
Lindner
said those residents will be able to return after several weeks, but
"we are not sure what the condition of those homes are going to be."
He also said it's unclear whether rebuilding homes in the same area will be allowed.
Louisiana weathers Harvey, Texas 'taking it on the chin'
Louisiana was largely spared from Harvey's wrath on Wednesday.
"While
things are still serious and there is a long way to go, we ... have
fared much better than we'd feared might be the case, but our neighbors
are still taking it on the chin," Gov. John Bel Edwards said. "In Texas,
we're going to do everything we can do to be good neighbors to them."
Edwards requested a federal disaster declaration be extended to seven additional Louisiana parishes.
Harvey
is still threatening to dump an additional 3 to 6 inches of rain from
northern Louisiana into western Kentucky, forecasters said. It weakened
over land and fizzled to a tropical depression Wednesday night, with
winds of 35 mph.
New Orleans Mayor
Mitch Landrieu said volunteers helped New Orleans recover after Katrina
and they will do the same for Texas residents affected by Harvey.
New
Orleans officials announced a fundraiser to help the residents of
Houston and other flooded Texas cities recover from Harvey.
"No
city was more welcoming for the citizens of New Orleans than the people
of Houston," Landrieu said. "And our heart breaks for them as they go
through their trying to times."
More rescues, mother dies
In
Beaumont, rescuers Tuesday afternoon came upon a toddler in a pink
backpack clinging to her mother's body in floodwaters about a half mile
from their car. The mother was getting out of her car when she stepped
into a canal, Mayor Becky Ames said.
The girl was in stable condition with hypothermia.
"Had
we been a few moments later, they would have been swept underneath (a
trestle) and our boats wouldn't have been able to get them," Haley
Morrow, spokeswoman for the Beaumont Emergency Management Office, told
CNN on Wednesday.
"A true testament of a mother who put her own life at risk and sacrificed her life to save her child. That was devastating."
In
Port Arthur, about 90 miles east of the devastated Houston area, the
deluge was so severe that floodwaters overwhelmed the Bob Bowers Civic
Center, which was serving as a shelter. It was evacuated Wednesday after
taking on water overnight, according to volunteer Ana Platero.
Cots
where people slept the night before floated on 2 feet of water on
Wednesday as people waited on tables or sat on elevated bleachers to be
evacuated to a nearby middle school.
At
Lake Arthur Place, a nursing home in Port Arthur, rescue workers
evacuated up to 74 bedridden patients after an altercation involving
relatives who tried to take out loved ones on their own, CNN affiliate KTRK reported.
All residents were taken to local hospitals in Beaumont, the nursing home operator said.
Some Port Arthur residents sought shelter in a bowling alley.
Cynthia
Harmon told CNN by phone that she was trapped with her two sons and two
grandsons in the attic of her Port Arthur home. They began waiting for
rescuers at midnight Tuesday and had run out of food and water by
Wednesday afternoon.
"I didn't think the water was going to rise like that," she said. "I've never been in anything like this."
The family was rescued later on Wednesday.
Police made an appeal for volunteers to bring boats and help.
"Rescue boats welcome in Port Arthur to assist emergency personnel," the police department posted on Facebook. The city asked anyone trapped to hang a white towel, sheet or shirt outside to alert rescuers.

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The Buffalo Bayou floods parts of Houston on August 27.
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Jane Rhodes is rescued by neighbors in Friendswood, Texas, on August 27.
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Volunteers at Sacred Heart Catholic Church prepare cots for evacuees in Elgin, Texas, on August 27.
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Melani Zurawski cries while inspecting her home in Port Aransas on August 27.
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Wilford
Martinez, right, is rescued from his flooded car along Interstate 610
in Houston on August 27. Assisting him here is Richard Wagner of the
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A car is submerged by floodwaters on a freeway near downtown Houston on August 27.
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A resident of the Bayou on the Bend apartment complex watches its first floor flood in Houston on August 27.
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A city flag, tattered by the effects of Hurricane Harvey, flaps in the wind over the police station in Rockport on August 27.
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Fort
Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls and Lucas Wu lift Ethan Wu into an
airboat as they evacuate the Orchard Lakes subdivision in Fort Bend
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Damage is seen at a boat storage building in Rockport on August 27.
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Water rushes from a large sinkhole along a highway in Rosenberg, Texas, on August 27.
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Evacuees wade through a flooded section of Interstate 610 in Houston on August 27.
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Evacuees are loaded onto a truck on an Interstate 610 overpass in Houston on August 27.
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A graveyard is flooded in Pearland, Texas, on August 27.
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A driver works his way through a maze of fallen utility poles in Taft, Texas, on Saturday, August 26.
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Steve
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said was the "most terrifying event in his life." Hurricane Harvey
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People walk through flooded streets in Galveston on August 26.
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Aaron
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said he was able to get his wife and kids out before the storm arrived,
but he stayed there and rode it out.
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Brad Matheney offers help to a man in a wheelchair in Galveston on August 26.
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Jessica Campbell hugs Jonathan Fitzgerald after riding out Hurricane Harvey in an apartment in Rockport.
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Boats are damaged in Rockport on August 26.
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A damaged home in Rockport on August 26.
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Donna
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assists her in Rockport on August 26. Raney was hiding in the shower
after the roof blew off and the walls of her home caved in.
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A laundromat's machines are exposed to the elements in Rockport on August 26.
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A semi-truck is overturned on a highway south of Houston on August 26.
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An American flag flies in front of a damaged mobile-home park in Rockport on August 26.
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NASA astronaut Jack Fischer photographed Hurricane Harvey from the International Space Station on Friday, August 25.
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Waves pound the shore as Harvey approaches Corpus Christi, Texas, on August 25.
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Floodwaters
from the Addicks Reservoir inundate a Houston neighborhood on
Wednesday, August 30, five days after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in
Texas. The Category 4 storm came ashore late Friday, August 25, just
north of Port Aransas, and has caused historic flooding. Correction:
Previous versions of this gallery incorrectly reported that Hurricane
Harvey is the strongest storm to make landfall in the United States
since Wilma in 2005. Harvey is actually the strongest storm to make
landfall in the United States since Charley in 2004.
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Members
of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Florida Fish
and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and the Louisiana National Guard
help rescue elderly people from the Golden Years Assisted Living home,
which was flooded in Orange, Texas, on August 30. The residents and
staff were high and dry on the second floor.
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Tammy
Dominguez, left, and her husband, Christopher Dominguez, sleep on cots
at the George R. Brown Convention Center, where nearly 10,000 people are
taking shelter in Houston on August 30.
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A cat tries to find dry ground around a flooded apartment complex on August 30 in Houston.
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Volunteer rescue workers help a woman from her flooded home in Port Arthur, Texas, on August 30.
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Chris
Gutierrez, second from right, helps his grandmother, Edelmira
Gutierrez, down the stairs of their flooded house and into a waiting
firetruck in the Concord Bridge neighborhood of Houston on August 29.
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Members of the National Guard rest at a furniture store in Richmond, Texas, on August 29.
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Alexis Hernandez holds her daughter Faith at the George R. Brown Convention Center, which is serving as a shelter in Houston.
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Evacuees make their way though floodwaters in Houston on August 29.
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President Donald Trump takes part in a briefing on Harvey as he visits Corpus Christi on August 29. In a stop in Austin, Trump spoke of the long-term effort and stiff costs
that will be needed to rebuild the region. "Nobody's seen this kind of
water," he said. "Probably, there's never been something so expensive in
our country's history." While talking about recovery and relief
efforts, Trump said, "We want to do it better than ever before."
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Civilian rescuers put a boat into a flooded road to search for people in Cypress on August 29.
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Volunteers organize items donated for Hurricane Harvey victims in Dallas on August 29.
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An overview of downtown Houston on August 29 shows the scale of the catastrophic flooding.
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Matthew
Koser searches for important papers and heirlooms inside his
grandfather's house in Houston's Bear Creek neighborhood on August 29.
The neighborhood flooded after water was released from nearby Addicks
Reservoir.
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Shane Johnson removes items from a family home in Rockport, Texas, on August 29.
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Airplanes sit at a flooded airport in Houston on August 29.
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People set up a shelter for volunteer rescue workers at Fairfield Baptist Church in Cypress, Texas, on August 29.
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Shardea
Harrison looks at her 3-week-old baby, Sarai, as Dean Mize, right, and
Jason Legnon use an airboat to rescue them from their home in Houston on
Monday, August 28.
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Thousands take shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on August 28.
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Rescue boats fill Tidwell Road in Houston as they help flood victims evacuate the area on August 28.
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People wait to be rescued from their flooded home in Houston on August 28.
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A
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Piper board a Texas Air National Guard C-130 at Scholes International
Airport in Galveston, Texas, on August 28.
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People make their way out of a flooded neighborhood in Houston on August 28.
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Sam Speights removes possessions from his damaged home in Rockport on August 28.
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Flood victims wait to unload from the back of a heavy-duty truck after being evacuated from their homes in Houston on August 28.
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People are rescued in Houston on August 28.
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Bridget
Brundrett presents an American flag to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott while he
was in Rockport on August 28. The flag had been recovered from city hall
after flying during the hurricane.
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Coast Guard helicopter hoists a wheelchair on board after lifting a
person to safety from a flooded area of Houston on August 28.
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Houston flood victims eat and rest at the George R. Brown Convention Center on August 28.
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Belinda Penn holds her dogs Winston and Baxter after being rescued from their home in Spring, Texas, on August 28.
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A
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People evacuate a neighborhood in west Houston on August 28.
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Julie
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relative's damaged apartment in Rockport on August 28.
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Cattle are stranded in a flooded pasture in La Grange, Texas, on August 28.
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Volunteer rescue boats make their way into a flooded subdivision in Spring, Texas, on August 28.
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Houston
police officer Daryl Hudeck carries Catherine Pham and her 13-month-old
son, Aiden, after rescuing them from floodwaters on Sunday, August 27.
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People push a stalled pickup through a flooded street in Houston on August 27.
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Residents of Rockport return to their destroyed home on August 27.
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The Buffalo Bayou floods parts of Houston on August 27.
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Two men try to beat the current that was pushing them down an overflowing Brays Bayou in Houston on August 27.
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Jane Rhodes is rescued by neighbors in Friendswood, Texas, on August 27.
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Volunteers at Sacred Heart Catholic Church prepare cots for evacuees in Elgin, Texas, on August 27.
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Damage to a home is seen in the Key Allegro neighborhood of Rockport on August 27.
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Melani Zurawski cries while inspecting her home in Port Aransas on August 27.
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Wilford
Martinez, right, is rescued from his flooded car along Interstate 610
in Houston on August 27. Assisting him here is Richard Wagner of the
Harris County Sheriff's Department.
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A car is submerged by floodwaters on a freeway near downtown Houston on August 27.
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A resident of the Bayou on the Bend apartment complex watches its first floor flood in Houston on August 27.
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Fort
Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls and Lucas Wu lift Ethan Wu into an
airboat as they evacuate the Orchard Lakes subdivision in Fort Bend
County, Texas, on August 27.
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Damage is seen at a boat storage building in Rockport on August 27.
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Water rushes from a large sinkhole along a highway in Rosenberg, Texas, on August 27.
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A graveyard is flooded in Pearland, Texas, on August 27.
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A driver works his way through a maze of fallen utility poles in Taft, Texas, on Saturday, August 26.
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Steve
Culver comforts his dog Otis on August 26 as he talks about what he
said was the "most terrifying event in his life." Hurricane Harvey
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People walk through flooded streets in Galveston on August 26.
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Aaron
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said he was able to get his wife and kids out before the storm arrived,
but he stayed there and rode it out.
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Brad Matheney offers help to a man in a wheelchair in Galveston on August 26.
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Jessica Campbell hugs Jonathan Fitzgerald after riding out Hurricane Harvey in an apartment in Rockport.
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Boats are damaged in Rockport on August 26.
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A damaged home in Rockport on August 26.
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Donna
Raney makes her way out of the wreckage of her home as Daisy Graham
assists her in Rockport on August 26. Raney was hiding in the shower
after the roof blew off and the walls of her home caved in.
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A laundromat's machines are exposed to the elements in Rockport on August 26.
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A semi-truck is overturned on a highway south of Houston on August 26.
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An American flag flies in front of a damaged mobile-home park in Rockport on August 26.
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NASA astronaut Jack Fischer photographed Hurricane Harvey from the International Space Station on Friday, August 25.
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Waves pound the shore as Harvey approaches Corpus Christi, Texas, on August 25.
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Floodwaters
from the Addicks Reservoir inundate a Houston neighborhood on
Wednesday, August 30, five days after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in
Texas. The Category 4 storm came ashore late Friday, August 25, just
north of Port Aransas, and has caused historic flooding. Correction:
Previous versions of this gallery incorrectly reported that Hurricane
Harvey is the strongest storm to make landfall in the United States
since Wilma in 2005. Harvey is actually the strongest storm to make
landfall in the United States since Charley in 2004.
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Members
of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Florida Fish
and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and the Louisiana National Guard
help rescue elderly people from the Golden Years Assisted Living home,
which was flooded in Orange, Texas, on August 30. The residents and
staff were high and dry on the second floor.
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Tammy
Dominguez, left, and her husband, Christopher Dominguez, sleep on cots
at the George R. Brown Convention Center, where nearly 10,000 people are
taking shelter in Houston on August 30.
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A cat tries to find dry ground around a flooded apartment complex on August 30 in Houston.
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Volunteer rescue workers help a woman from her flooded home in Port Arthur, Texas, on August 30.
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Chris
Gutierrez, second from right, helps his grandmother, Edelmira
Gutierrez, down the stairs of their flooded house and into a waiting
firetruck in the Concord Bridge neighborhood of Houston on August 29.
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Members of the National Guard rest at a furniture store in Richmond, Texas, on August 29.
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President Donald Trump takes part in a briefing on Harvey as he visits Corpus Christi on August 29. In a stop in Austin, Trump spoke of the long-term effort and stiff costs
that will be needed to rebuild the region. "Nobody's seen this kind of
water," he said. "Probably, there's never been something so expensive in
our country's history." While talking about recovery and relief
efforts, Trump said, "We want to do it better than ever before."
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Matthew
Koser searches for important papers and heirlooms inside his
grandfather's house in Houston's Bear Creek neighborhood on August 29.
The neighborhood flooded after water was released from nearby Addicks
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Shane Johnson removes items from a family home in Rockport, Texas, on August 29.
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Airplanes sit at a flooded airport in Houston on August 29.
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People set up a shelter for volunteer rescue workers at Fairfield Baptist Church in Cypress, Texas, on August 29.
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Shardea
Harrison looks at her 3-week-old baby, Sarai, as Dean Mize, right, and
Jason Legnon use an airboat to rescue them from their home in Houston on
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Thousands take shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on August 28.
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Rescue boats fill Tidwell Road in Houston as they help flood victims evacuate the area on August 28.
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People wait to be rescued from their flooded home in Houston on August 28.
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Piper board a Texas Air National Guard C-130 at Scholes International
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People make their way out of a flooded neighborhood in Houston on August 28.
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Sam Speights removes possessions from his damaged home in Rockport on August 28.
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Flood victims wait to unload from the back of a heavy-duty truck after being evacuated from their homes in Houston on August 28.
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People leave a flooded area of Houston on August 28.
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People are rescued in Houston on August 28.
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Brundrett presents an American flag to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott while he
was in Rockport on August 28. The flag had been recovered from city hall
after flying during the hurricane.
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Coast Guard helicopter hoists a wheelchair on board after lifting a
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Houston flood victims eat and rest at the George R. Brown Convention Center on August 28.
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Belinda Penn holds her dogs Winston and Baxter after being rescued from their home in Spring, Texas, on August 28.
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The
disaster in Port Arthur is part of Tropical Storm Harvey's devastating
encore. Harvey made landfall once again Wednesday morning, slamming into
the Louisiana coast near the Texas border.
26 inches in 24 hours
Harvey
has broken the US record for rainfall from a single storm, CNN senior
meteorologist Dave Hennen said. It has dumped almost 52 inches of rain
in parts of Texas.
The coastal cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur got pummeled with 26 inches of rain in 24 hours.
"Life-threatening flash flooding continues in far east Texas around Beaumont and Port Arthur," Hennen said.
Port Arthur, a city of about 55,000, is in exceptional danger because water from Beaumont is expected to flow toward it.
In Beaumont, a man who accidentally drove a truck into a flooded ravine that looked like a street was rescued by CNN correspondent Drew Griffin,
producer Brian Rokus and photographer Scott Pisczek on Wednesday. "I
want to thank these guys for saving my life," said the driver, Jerry
Sumrall.
In Woodville, a town
north of Beaumont, US Rep. Brian Babin was trapped for part of Wednesday
at home with members of his family after a creek overflowed.
"I'm
in my home in Tyler County, and we could not get out unless a
helicopter plucks me out or I get my boat and launch it," the Texas
Republican told CNN by phone early in the day. "We're fine. These waters are going to recede hopefully sometime this evening."
On Wednesday afternoon, a US Navy helicopter plucked seven people from floodwaters.
'We help each other out'
Strangers from across the country descended on Texas and braved treacherous floodwater to evacuate victims.

CNN crew helps rescue man from truck 02:05
Tom Dickers is among those who came hauling boats from Dallas and San Antonio.
"This is what Texans would do. We help each other out," Dickers said.
At
least 9,000 to 10,000 people have been rescued in the Houston region by
first responders. Volunteers said they have helped as many as 400 in
one day.
Some would just "come
crying, just wanting help," volunteer Bobba Bedri said. "I just felt
like I had to get more people out, keep going and keep going."
CLARIFICATION:
Harvey made its first landfall at 10 p.m. local time Friday, initially
striking a barrier island near Port Aransas, Texas, before moving onto
the US mainland two hours later near Copano Bay, Texas. After
re-emerging into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, it made another landfall
Wednesday in Louisiana.
CNN's
Donie O'Sullivan, Tina Burnside, Amanda Watts, AnneClaire Stapleton,
Paul Vercammen, Samira Said, Cheri Mossburg and Darran Simon contributed
to this report.
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