Every family that went through Hurricane Harvey has a story. When the storm made landfall in Texas in August 2017, it displaced thousands, killed more than 80 people, and caused damages that are expected to reach more than $150 billion.
Elvia, a mother of two from the Houston neighborhood of Pine Trails, was grateful to get through the hurricane with her family safe and her house intact. But they lost their two cars in the flooding and had to evacuate their neighborhood. Elvia, a detention officer for Harris County who asked that her last name not be included in order to protect her family’s privacy, had to work 32 hours straight and sleep at the jail with the inmates, simply because many of the other guards couldn’t make it into work.
[For more on this story by Annabelle Timsit, go to https://qz.com/1371856/the-lif...er-hurricane-harvey/]
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