The article reports on the results of a survey of evacuees in storm shelters in Houston, Texas affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It found that 93 percent of them were African Americans, 79 percent had no friends or relatives to move in with and 74 percent had annual income of $30...
HOUSTON, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- As a devastating flood spawned by Tropical Storm Harvey inundated the Houston area in the southern U.S. state of Texas, residents have had to scramble to seek shelter and stay safe. The loss of property or its damage are beyond their immediate concerns. A s...
Evacuees are unloaded from the back of an open-bed truck at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston after Hurricane Harvey inundated the Texas Gulf Coast, Aug. 27, 2017.
9, 2017. Three shelters in the coastal Galveston area of Texas have combined efforts to open the Hurricane Harvey Animal Rescue Shelter at a former greyhound racing track in La Marque, about 65 km south of Houston. Hurricane Harvey caused many pets to be lost, left homeless, abandoned by ...
WFAA Dallas Texas In July 2018, Dallas TV Station WFAA Did a story on our Shelters and how we are helping children in schools. It’s About Time Between active shooters and natural disasters, the time has come to better protect our children at school. Watch NBC Houston’s feature on The ...
“This is not a community that we talk babbling brook with… They might not have any memory that’s safe,” said Sarah Howell, who runs a clinical practice and a nonprofit treating migrant survivors of torture in Houston. When she visits patients in their new Texas communities, they routinel...
mack said. harvey struck texas on aug. 25 as a category 4 hurricane, but brought the worst flooding to houston and other areas as a tropical storm. the rain totaled nearly 52 inches (1.3 meters) in some spots, and the storm is blamed for at least 60 deaths. fema about 560,000 ...
The three Texas centers — in Combes, Raymondville and Brownsville — have been rapidly repurposed to serve needs of children, including some under 5. A fourth, planned for Houston, would house up to 240 children in a warehouse previously used for people displaced by Hurricane Harvey, Mayor Sy...
LOCATION: FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS ITEMS: CAMSS MEDICAL SHELTERS CONTRACT: 40133933 CONTRACTING OFFICE: LAND SYSTEMS LOCATION: AFGHANISTAN ITEMS: CAMSS 18SS SHADE SYSTEMS CONTRACT: 35723 CONTRACTING OFFICE: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY LOCATION: KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN ITEMS: THREE (3) 100 MAN CAMPS; CAMSS...
A 14-year-old Guatemalan who was detained at an emergency facility in Houston in April said it was very hot and that she was often thirsty. She said the girls had to drink expired milk when they ran out of water. She saw eight girls faint because of the heat and the lack of water,...