Harvey Survivors Yvette Scales Yvette Scales recounts almost sixty years of personal experience with tropical storms and hurricanes while living in the Third Ward of Houston, TX. Scales touches on her memories with Hurricanes…
First Responders HFD Station 8 Houston Fire Department Station 8 is located near downtown Houston and services Montrose, Third Ward, and Fifth Ward. During Hurricane Harvey and previous floods, such as the Memorial Day flood…
Volunteers Gloria Rose Gloria Rose has lived in Houston since September of 2005. Before that, she lived in New Orleans but left after Hurricane Katrina. Rose recounts some of her experiences during Katrina,…
Volunteers Pastor Rudy Rasmus Pastor Rudy Rasmus grew up in West End, one of the oldest black neighborhoods in Houston, Texas. Pastor Rasmus begins his interview detailing the changes throughout Houston during his childhood…
Harvey Survivors Perla King Perla Torres King lived in Baytown before moving to Crosby in 2015. King has experience with tropical storms and hurricanes in the areas, her first being Hurricane Ike. Although her…
Volunteers James Joseph James Joseph has lived in Houston for most of his life and is a community organizer in Fifth Ward. He remembers previous hurricanes, like Allison and Ike, and their effects…
Volunteers Stephen James Stephen James saw the devasting effects of Hurricane Harvey firsthand and documented his experience through photography. James's career as a CBS affiliate at Houston, Channel 11 prepared him to seek…
Harvey Survivors Jose Mendez Jose Manuel Mendez has lived in Houston, TX since his birth in 1980. In 2008, Mendez experienced a power outage for two weeks due to Hurricane Ike, otherwise his experience…
Harvey Survivors Elgene Muscat Elgene Muscat is a retired nurse who moved to Kingwood in 1995 and experienced flooding during Hurricane Harvey. She recalls that her husband told her when they moved to Kingwood…
Harvey Survivors John Barr John Barr has lived in Kingwood for more than thirty years and teaches history at Lone Star College - Kingwood. When he first heard about the potential storm forming in…
