HOUSTON – Five years ago. It really does feel like yesterday. Like yesterday when the meteorologists started talking about more than 40 inches of rain headed toward our area.
I remember it. You probably do, too.
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Whether it’s five years or 15 or 20 years, snapshots of that time and that storm and the images shared of Hurricane Harvey will stay with all of us.
I was working at KPRC 2 when Hurricane Harvey started to devastate the Houston area. Looking at these images again is still traumatic, still shocking and still stunning.
The water really was that high. The boats really did pick people off of porches and rooftops. So many lives lost. So many homes and vehicles and personal memories gone forever to floodwaters.
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These are some of the images that stick from that storm.
Revisit with care, y’all. These still hurt, but they also heal to show how far we’ve come and what we’ve overcome. We’re still #HOUSTONSTRONG. We’re still us. And now, so happy to be looking back with reverence on this life-changing event.
There’s still healing, still building, still changing that needs to be done -- for sure. But in this moment, we can go back and see it. This is what we lived through. This is what we survived.