***Houston***

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Don Van Natta Jr.? @DVNJr 18h18 hours ago
This is Houston. (📸M. Alvarez)




Sebastian Herrera? @SebasAHerrera 17h17 hours ago
This photo by @jayjanner today at a Houston shelter is the best. Sometimes, tragedy brings out such heartfelt moments. #Harvey @statesman

[FSogol]

1. K & R. n/t

[Stuart G]

2. k and r nt.

[MontanaMama]

3. Wow.

Just wow.

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. Love.

[RKP5637]

5. K&R!!!! n/t

[question everything]

6. Oh my god. I just realized this is a car, not a boat!

k&r

[oasis]

7. Great pix. Thanks

[leftstreet]

8. DURec

[gademocrat7]

9. K&R!

[lunatica]

10. You can make friends in the oddest places

[miyazaki]

11. At least the Dot Shop is now open.

[wryter2000]

12. K&R

Such wonderful, brave people.

[Moostache]

13. K&R (n/t)

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Thanks. K&R

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. (post now moot)

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[nolabear]

16. It's meant to be a hug. Let it be.

[mcar]

19. I don't understand your question

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. (post now moot)

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[Solly Mack]

17. I was always partial to a young man and his card tricks. :)

[mcar]

18. Something in my eye

Thank you for showing us the best of people.

[KatyMan]

32. happening a lot to me too

must be something in the air the storm kicked up...

[longship]

20. The human chain!

The people reaching out.

I have to keep looking at that photo. Can hardly take my eyes off of it. A powerful moment captured. Pulitzer worthy, certainly.

It says, "Come with us. We've got you. You're going to be safe now."

Jeez Louise! Somebody must be chopping onions or something.

[oneshooter]

21. This is TEXANS helping TEXANS. n/t

[madokie]

23. If anything good can come from this tragedy

it is that we are better than the world that tRump and his enablers/voters/deplorables want for us. In the end we will WIN

[bluecollar2]

25. Turn that second picture into a statue

And replace every confederate statue with that one and then I'll entertain the "heritage" discussion....

[Docreed2003]

26. K&R!!!

Can someone stop cutting onions up in here...I'd really appreciate it!

[raven mad]

27. Houston - and Americans (REAL Americans) -

working together to help, to comfort, to donate when we're far away, to volunteer - Houston rocks. NO lack of humanity or compassion there! Shining star, Houston.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article170378617.html

Harvey's floods couldn’t stop this Pizza Hut from delivering—by kayak
BY DONOVAN HARRELL
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AUGUST 30, 2017 10:48 PM

As Harvey left widespread devastation throughout Houston, Texas, and surrounding areas, the last thing some may have expected was for pizza restaurants to still deliver.

One Pizza Hut restaurant in Sugarland, Texas, found a solution to the unprecedented flooding caused by Harvey: kayaks, according to KPRC.

Shayda Habib, the manager of the local Pizza Hut, told The Houston Chronicle she decided to make pizza for people she heard were low on food while stuck in their homes.

"We packed 120 pizzas into kayaks and took them out to people in their homes," Habib told The Houston Chronicle. "The people in the houses didn't expect us to come. It was so nice to see their smiles after so much gloom."

[SpankMe]

28. Re: The first picture

How the heck does someone even get in to that position? Did the water come up that fast while the driver was sitting at a red light, or something? Did the driver just drive in to water that deep? If so, then why?

I'm really not trying to be shitty, critical or overly cynical and judgmental - but I an just dying of curiosity about the moments that led up to these people getting trapped. In some of these cases, it seems like they plenty of opportunity to avoid getting in to these pickles.

[secondwind]

29. A lot of traffic would have slowed them down... waters rush in faster than you think..

[lunatica]

33. With a little imagination you can probably come up with some scenarios

The water didn't look that deep and the driver thought he/she could drive through.

It was in an intersection which had deeper water running through it and it pushed the car sideway so the driver realized the current was too strong to try to walk in it.

The driver panicked because he/she didn't know how to swim

Maybe there were old feeble people or little children or both and there was no time to evacuate the car before the water level rose.

the car engine stalled as the water level rose.

the water made it impossible to open the car doors without flooding the car and drowning the passengers.

There are plenty of scenarios.

[hamsterjill]

30. My beloved Texas!!!!!!!

Warms my heart. Makes me cry tears of hope.

[niyad]

31. k and r

[dalton99a]

34. Kick