Harvey Survivors Ronald Teitelbaum Ron Teitelbaum was interviewed on the morning of Friday, March 2, 2018, in the conference room of an apartment building in Houston, where he and his wife have been living…
Harvey Survivors Russell Price Russell Price had lived in Houston for forty years when he participated in this interview. Price lived in Michigan before coming to Houston, trading in ice and snowstorms for tropical…
Harvey Survivors Lydia Musher Lydia Musher discusses Hurricane Harvey, the Meyerland Community, and how floods are inevitable. Despite not flooding in the Memorial Day Flood or the Tax Day Flood, Musher was not surprised…
Harvey Survivors Sharon Mellert Sharon Mellert has lived in the Houston area, specifically Kingwood for twenty-four years at the time of this interview. When Hurricane Harvey hit, Mellert and her husband were out of…
Harvey Survivors William McWhirter William McWhirter has lived in the Greater Houston Area since 1963 when he was ten years old. He provides insight into personal experiences with flooding from tropical storms and hurricanes.…
Volunteers Rabbi Oren Hayon Rabbi Oren Hayon, with Temple Emanu El, discusses Hurricane Harvey, the Jewish community’s reaction to Harvey, and the Jewish community in Houston. Hayon discusses the fact that Temple Emanu El…
Harvey Survivors Sammy Ford At the time of the interview, Sammy Ford had lived in the Houston community for approximately forty years and had experienced multiple natural disasters, with flooding from Hurricane Harvey and…
Harvey Survivors Curtis Elder Curtis Elder is a native Houstonian who was born and raised in Fifth Ward. He has lived in the Scenic Wood neighborhood for much of his life. Elder remembers evacuating…
Harvey Survivors Michael Duke Michael Duke, a third-generation journalist in the Jewish community with the Jewish Herald-Voice, discusses community news, community involvement, and Hurricane Harvey. Duke emphasizes that being a newspaper in a community…
Harvey Survivors Patricia Crawford Patricia Crawford has lived in Houston, Texas, for her whole life, providing her with multiple experiences with hurricanes and tropical storms. When describing her experience with Hurricane Harvey, Crawford mentions…
Harvey Survivors Guy Cohen Guy Cohen, an Israeli working for the Israeli American Council, relates his experience with Hurricane Harvey. He and his wife bought a house in Meyerland, a house that previously had…
Harvey Survivors Charles Clark Charles Clark, Jr., was not worried about Hurricane Harvey. He says that this house in Missouri City and the surrounding area had not flooded in the past, but he still…
Harvey Survivors Betty Clark Betty Clark discusses Harvey’s impact on herself, Meyerland, and the “shtetl” feel of Meyerland. The impact on Clark is a reminder that even though a person goes through tough times,…
Harvey Survivors Holly Cin Holly Cin, a driving force behind the Meyerland Minyan orthodox synagogue, discusses flooding, the Meyerland community, and the future of the Jewish community there. Cin discusses flooding in the Memorial…
Volunteers Harold Bishop Harold Bishop has lived in Houston since 1983, when he moved here while working as a flight attendant for Continental Airlines. Since then, he has experienced many storms, including Hurricane…
Harvey Survivors Helen Benjamin Helen Benjamin has lived in Houston for more than fifty years. She moved here as a teenager to attend beauty school while also studying at Wheatley High School. In 2001,…
Harvey Survivors Herman Baker Herman Baker is a private security guard who works in Fifth Ward. During Hurricane Harvey, he and his family went to Brenham, Texas. While Baker did not receive damage to…
