Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey.
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Aerial photography of Hurricane Harvey damage to Rockport, Texas (August 28, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
A Coast Guard Flood Punt Team transports a man across a flooded neighborhood in Houston (Aug. 29, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
After determining that there was no access from their launch point to a nearby residential area, U.S. Border Patrol riverine agents return to the landing in the flooded subdivisions surrounding Houston (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Three men await the arrival of U.S. Border Patrol riverine agents in an air boat to pick them up as they are evacuated from a flooded subdivision of Houston (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
A U.S. Border Patrol riverine agent searches for residents needing evacuation in a flooded subdivision of Houston (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
U.S. Border Patrol riverine agents evacuate residents from a flooded neighborhood of Houston (August 30, 2017)
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Entire neighborhoods were inaccessible in several feet of flooding (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Houston residents found themselves trapped on rooftops and wading through flooded streets (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
First responders were inundated with more than 2,000 calls for help the first day, according to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
More than 1,000 people had to be rescued overnight while the storm dumped anywhere from 15 to 30 inches of rain across southeast Texas (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, it deployed over 600 agents and officers across over 50 vessels, accounting for 1,362 people rescued, as well as 26 dogs.
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
As in previous emergency situations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s emergency response is conducted in accordance with the Department of Homeland Security’s National Response Framework (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Texas Army National Guardsmen rescue horses stranded by Hurricane Harvey flooding north of Beaumont, Texas (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Joshua Wiegand, executive officer of the 551st Multi-Role Bridge Company out of El Campo, Texas, scouts the road for water depth as his unit makes their way to a flooded Orange, Texas, neighborhood where they were using boats to search for people in need of help (September 3, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Texas Army National Guardsmen rescue flood survivors stranded by Hurricane Harvey flooding north of Beaumont, Texas (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Texas Army National Guardsmen using anything at their disposal to rescue survivors (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey flooding north of Beaumont, Texas (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
U.S. Marine Corps Assault Amphibian Vehicles move through Hurricane Harvey flooded areas north of Beaumont, Texas (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
The Amphibious Assault Vehicle, or AAV, is designed to take Marines from ships to beachheads and beyond, but it also makes the perfect disaster relief vehicle (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
A Texas Army National Guard LUH72 Lakota with the 36th Combat Aviation Brigade, flies over flooded communities looking for survivors north of Beaumont, Texas (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Civilians were quick to offer help, many of which conducted their own rescue missions using their own boats and skiffs (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey flooding in Port Arthur, Texas (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
For the first time, authorities said, the flooding in and around Houston is slowly receding in some areas, but in other parts of the state, such as Port Arthur, shown here, it was still severe. (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
In Port Arthur, about 90 miles east of the devastated Houston area, the deluge showed no signs of stopping (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
At least 185,000 homes were damaged, according to the latest tally from the Texas Department of Public Safety, but that number does not include heavily affected Beaumont (shown here) and densely populated Houston (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Some 440,000 Texans have registered so far for FEMA disaster assistance, according to the governor’s office (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
The town of Beaumont took on a ghostly quality (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
The storm dropped 47 inches of rain in the Beaumont-Port Arthur area, and most roads into the cities remain impassable, making relief shipments of bottled water difficult (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
More than 30,000 people remained in shelters in the region (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
The Coast Guard said it rescued more than 100 people from rooftops and conducted more than 2,000 multi-person rescues (August 31, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
A Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team Houston member assists residents of a flooded neighborhood in Briar Forest, Texas (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Roughly 2,000 U.S. Coast Guard responders were on the ground in Texas and southwest Louisiana helping to fly flood victims to safety (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
A Coast Guard Gulf Strike Team member from Mobile, Alabama, helps a puppy in a flooded neighborhood in Briar Forest, Texas (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
A Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team Houston member and a Gulf Strike Team member assist residents of a flooded neighborhood in Briar Forest, Texas. (August 30, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
A Coast Guard rescue swimmer from Air Station Houston looks at the flooded streets below an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter while conducting rescues in southeastern Houston, (August 27, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
U.S. Army National Guard soldiers assigned to the 551st Multi-Role Bridge Company, El Campo, Texas, search flooded Beaumont, Texas, neighborhoods for civilians (September 3, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Coast Guard Sector Lower Mississippi River and Coast Guard Cutter Muskingum crewmembers conduct search and rescue of pets in the greater Houston area (September 2, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
A Soldier of the 551st Multi-Role Bridge Company out of El Campo, Texas, catches a rope thrown by a local citizen to assist in moving an inoperable boat during post-Hurricane Harvey recovery operations in Beaumont, Texas (September 3, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ernesto Luevano, with the 551st Multi-Role Bridge Company out of El Campo, Texas scouts the water depth as his unit makes their way to a flooded Orange, Texas neighborhood (September 3, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Local Texans walk through a flooded Orange, Texas neighborhood (September 3, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
U.S. Army Private Alfredo Figueroa and his unit, the 551st Multi-Role Bridge Company out of El Campo, Texas (September 3, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
U.S. Army Sgt. Jonathan Bacon with the 551st Multi-Role Bridge Company out of El Campo, Texas (September 3, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
U.S. Army Specialist Chandler Patterson with the 551st Multi-Role Bridge Company out of El Campo, Texas, wipes his eyes as the heat and humidity during a boat patrol in Orange, Texas was sweat inducing (September 3, 2017).
Recovery Efforts Underway Following Hurricane Harvey
Coast Guard Air Station Houston responds to search and rescue requests after Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas (Aug. 27, 2017).
Ways to help:
All Hands Volunteers will be working on damaged homes and removing debris.
The American Red Cross is accepting donations. You can also text HARVEY to 90999 to donate $10.
AmeriCares takes medicine and supplies to survivors.
Donations to the Salvation Army can be made online,
by calling 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769) or texting STORM to 51555.
Hurricane Harvey barreled into Texas on August 25. It was a Category 4 hurricane, with winds exceeding 130 miles per hour in some places. Stalling over the Texas Gulf Coast, and eventually lingering as a tropical storm, Harvey dropped between 40 and 52 inches of rain in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. Mobilizing into action, the Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and National Guard units from five states—as well as other military branches—were called on to assist those affected by the storm. It’s nice to know that when the water rises, the brave men and women of our country’s military have our backs.
Now, with Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic, thrashing the Caribbean on a collision course with Florida, many predict it could surpass the damage done by Harvey. Our military may soon be called into action once again.
Ways to help:
All Hands Volunteers will be working on damaged homes and removing debris.
The American Red Cross is accepting donations. You can also text HARVEY to 90999 to donate $10.
AmeriCares takes medicine and supplies to survivors.
Donations to the Salvation Army can be made online,
by calling 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769) or texting STORM to 51555.
