Photo by Daniel Kramer
Last Monday, I walked through the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston and saw a man wearing only a hospital gown.Naturally, I asked him about the get-up.He told me he hadn't had time to change. He barely had time to climb up onto the furniture in his home, he added. He was diabetic and it was all he could do to hang on with his left hand as the water swirled up around his chest and he used his right hand to wield a hammer to beat off a pack of snakes. Luckily, a neighbor rescued him and brought him to George R. Brown, where she was watching over him.There are thousands of stories like that one. Hurricane Harvey is the second superstorm I've covered since moving to this city in 2000. The scale of the devastation is remarkable, and it's hard to imagine there won't be more like this one. Even so, the suffering has been mitigated by people lending their friends, neighbors, and total strangers a hand when it mattered most.Here's what I saw.All photographs by Daniel Kramer
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