Recovering After Hurricane Harvey's $125 Billion of Damages - Home Again: Houston
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2019
- In September of 2017 Hurricane Harvey caused $125 billion in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall. More than 30,000 people were displaced from their homes in Houston, due to the floods. Porfirio De Leon, a father of seven, was one of them. His home was fully destroyed by the flooding and has been displaced ever since.
In Home Again: Houston, we visit the Gulf Coast city to take a look at the personal stories of those still rebuilding a year and a half after the record rainfall put the city underwater, and meet the organizations and individuals working to get people back into their homes and prepare for the future by rebuilding resiliently.
We also look at how REALTORS® are a trusted ally in helping new and experienced homeowners alike navigate these situations and advising them when it comes to buying a home in these high-risk areas.
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I’m in an area that Harvey hit HARD. The entire community came together to help each other, people in lifted trucks and boats were pumping gas to evacuate neighbors from flooded zones. At work, many of my coworkers had children at home or at babysitters that they couldn’t get to because the roads were flooded. It flooded so badly, when the rain subsided for a while I took a walk up the main road and in the distance all I could see was the top of the stop signs. Houston has rebuilt, homes got torn down & built back up, but everytime there’s a strong storm everyone gets worried.
What neibirhood donyou live
Me to man! Addicts area got absolutely destroyed. My brother took his John boat out with people with jetskies to save oeiooe
Prayers sent out to you and your community.
I'm really amazed how they raised that bungalow like that. I want to see that process from start to finish.
sc0tte416 I pass that house daily. It’s a sight to see for sure haha, but many houses in the area are now raised 10+ feet. My neighbor across the street did it and it was a very long process. Started with digging holes and tunnels under the house. Then added hydraulic lifts all under the house in those tunnels, and then slowing lifting the house over many days, then letting the house sit empty for several weeks to let it settle, then adding all of the bricks/stone beneath the raised house. It was insane!
@@bthomp6694 That's cool..I imagine they placed a couple of those long beams running both ways and lifted at the same time and adding a level of boards at each of those wooden 'feet' each step. Then move the jacks and repeat. I'm curious how they filled in the hole with bricks or whatever then removed the wood and then filled that. Cool stuff. Extra basement for them after lol
We Houstonians are strong and resilient! In times of crisis, we always try to help one another! #HoustonStrong
I wholeheartedly agree
Yeah thats why my fellow neighbor Hustonian tried to kill me lol. Help all the way👌👍👍
@@Niko_Soldo Then he wasn't a real one.
Building on land that’s meant to soak up the water. That’s how you get the catastrophic flooding.
P R As a Houstonian, I can tell you many of the people who flooded lived in homes that have been around for 50+ years. The new structures being built in improper areas is certainly contributing to the flooding, but the homes most Harvey victims lived in were not built on land meant to soak up water.
bro harvey wasn’t even supposed to hit us let alone sit
Umm first off it's a Bayu. Second, the land here dosnt "soak up" anythingThe limestone and kalichi rock bed filterates the water table through it. In addition you do know texas was under a lot of water? They've found oceanic Ammonites on top of the Llano uplift.
P R I just want to share with you that some of my friends houses were flooded that NEVER experienced flooding before. Like never in 100 years.
I live 40 minutes south of Houston. Our county flooded just as bad as Houston, and in fact have flooded twice since Harvey to rain waters and river release. Nothing floods above Houston during these other floods. Houston is too large, too much concrete and causing our county (Brazoria) to flood yearly.
7 kids, lost your job, and have a daughter with leukemia. Now that's a hard hand to deal with.
Too many kids.
@Galios Elvensong 😂😂😂 that advice tho
Stop fuckin having kids then. Does over populated mean anything to you people.
@@RyanPowerhouse Almost the cause of every problem on this planet.
Sad..
The moment he said 'my daughters cancer free' I smiled wide as all hell
Where was Joel Osteen during the christians time of need, and you people still go to Lakewood, church and giving Joel your hard earned money.
It was an overwhelming catastrophe and Osteen was nowhere to be found. He is a good example of a Chri$tian. If people actually lived as Christ said this would be a better planet. I have known a few people of various denominations who live their faith. They are few and far between. Most are pretty much self-absorbed and selfish and at worst the remainder are the most hateful people on Earth.
He was in his church, his giant church, and said he didn't want to open his doors.
Alyssa Dyer exactly. That douche claimed that is was flooded and not safe so they couldn’t open it up to help. People made their way there and posted how it wasn’t flooded. At that point he had no choice but to step up and try to help. Truly a piece of doo doo. Thank god real hero’s stepped up including a real hero and leader Mattress Mack.
@Constitutional Conservative after the fact yes
Christ would not tolerate his name being used by these bullish, exploitative, decadent cult leaders we call "megachurch pastors". He'd rather hang out with all the teenagers they shame.
It wasnt the actual rain fall that damaged the majority of the neighborhoods that got hit the hardest.... It was the desicion to release the overflowing dams to the north and west that sent it overboard, in turn flooding an already over saturated area.
Tom Devolz Yup,they covered it in a previous video but not this one/:
Yep. It was mostly human error.
They had to do that though or the event would have been even more catastrophic. It’s not some conspiracy theory. They kept Houstonians updated and let us know in advance so people who would be affected could leave. Not releasing the dam wasn’t really an option at the point they chose to. I would research it. I bet A&M has good info on it since they were part of the decision making.
Howd ya think that the dam got filled up...
Steentje06 that’s what I’m saying. They keep saying “ThEy rEleAsed tHe oVerFlOwiNg Dam”.
Harvey entered Texas with the goal of going big or go home. He went big
You would know dear leader
Harvey sure did surprise everyone and redefine the rules
Thanks Kim!!! Good shit💩 take care an drink moonshine
Kim Jong-un and notice how houston is almost rebuilt
Alejandro?
Htown til I drown and mind you I almost did.
It's all good I was going to comment “HTown til I drown” but people from outside Houston would think I was being rude. 😂
"New Orleans. Proud to swim home." Peace.
Bonnie Treece lollll, OMGGGG- RIGHT?!?!?! Haha.
Salute to all my Texan neighbors
Being a Houston Native, raised and born, this hurts all over again. It's like Harvey never left
It hurt to see a lot of fellow Houstonians being affected by this massive storm. It didn't affect my area that much, but it affected everyone around me. I bought 8 cases of water to help those people affected around me.
You know what they say “Everything is bigger in Texas”
Hurricane Harvey: That’s true!!!
I lived in Dickinson tx where I lost everything from Harvey, my wife and my 3 beautiful kids will never be the same and also my kids get really scared every time the rain comes because they feel that it will flood all over again.
Have a lot of friends lose their homes that way, Friendswood, League City, Texas City. Hopefully you're relatively back on your feet. I live just north of Ellington, I made it unscathed, feel little guilty with my friends who lost everything.
Most of my family is still in that area of Texas. A couple of them lost everything, and are still fighting to get even a bit back of their lives.
Why will yall never be the same again
@@destynnee why are they still not back home yet
@@Signal_light_instructor Where did I say they are not back in their homes yet? Fighting to get back a bit of their lives, could be a lot things.
Although, my mother just recently got back into the house my family built. It is still not fully fixed from Harvey, and we are pretty sure it will never be. Getting help from FEMA is not easy, and not everyone had, or can get flood insurance, etc.
Many I know, have lost everything. I know some who are sleeping on couches, staying with family, etc. Getting back on ones feet, when you already live pay check to pay check, is extremely hard. Not everyone in the areas hit, were as lucky as others.
Dealing with natural disasters suck, big time. And if you have never been through one, esp if you have never been through the kind that, that person is dealing with. It is hard to really understand it all.
Flooding on these scales, hasn't happened in a very long time, for that area.
You see vice, it’s not hard to find good topics
You should start a news company!
Enjoy your floods!!
- sincerely California
@@adg7147 You guys are the ones who pay millions to live there?
Meeko my home equity value can buy your home, three times.
Let that simmer next time you think about how you’re doing in life. 👍🏼
@@adg7147 Lmao yet you have to explain you're life to a random person you have no idea is on the internet seems like you have the world going for you buddy let that simmer.
The woman was wearing an Astros shirt, it hits home big time I live in Conroe and was from Houston. Everyone pulled together and got behind the Astros and they made us forget. I was lucky to suffer no damage, was just flooded in several days but thankful! HOUSTON STRONG!
Thank fully my family and I wasn't affected that much.
I remember going to work, buying essentials. Bought dog and rabbit food. Then the flooding came. I was out of work for 2 weeks, then the announcement that DACA was to end. It really was such a stressful time.
So thankful that we were not impact. My hubby and I walked from Midtown to 288 (a few blocks from us), to downtown, to Waugh and Taft, and over to S. Shepherd and Memorial documenting the damage. I am really sad that the Spaghetti Warehouse closed down but it had been hit with several floods given its proximity to Buffalo Bayou. I lived on Brase Bayou during Allison and had never seen so much water. The Meyerland area used to never flood but I know during Harvey the area had significant damage.
God Bless you all for helping out! What a great community spirit.....!! 61 days to put a house up is incredible. Praying this will never happen to Houston or any other city in the US again........Stay strong, Folks!! 🙏🏼❤️💪🏼👍🏼
Luckily I live on a 2nd floor apartment, so I didn’t get flooded. I took my truck and waited out the storm in Katy, TX. Many many of my neighbors were not so lucky.
Please watch this safety video if you have a portable generator ua-cam.com/video/I1jT3ANENvI/v-deo.html a lot of people died during a hurricane.
September 2017, I was serving my 6th year in the Air National Guard, I've been overseas, and this by far was the most impactful chapter of my career. I was fighting to get an Active Duty spot when this hurricane hit Houston. I remember alot of unknown between how we were going to get Into Houston, whether helicopter, or vehicle. We finally got mobilized and were initially tasked with high water rescue, that quickly changed due to people's animalistic ideologies, we were then tasked to lock down and secure some of the worst stricken places in Houston. We were working with local Law Enforcement attempting to stop looting, due to crime in the area sky rocketing. I remember going through neighborhoods and seeing the absolute desolation the hurricane had produced, there was trash and furniture higher than the houses themselves, in the streets. I remember vividly going through a two story apartment complex that had running waters over the roof of it just a day earlier, and clearing it out looking for survivors or bodies through my NVGs. But most importantly and most impactful of all, I remember how everyone came together to help, people bringing us food, people that had lost everything, coming up to us and thanking us for protecting their last valuables and cherished items. They had lost everything, and had seemingly nothing to give, but they gave. We gave, we sat, we talked, we listened, we helped. Regardless of political climate, regardless of your individual beliefs about America, I first hand saw what Americans truly are, blacks, whites, Mexicans, it didnt matter, we all stood together and did what we could to protect one another. Although there were some that looted, and violated the law, most helped, most cared, and most although losing everything, gave their all. Between the unfortunate deceased and sick we came together as one and helped each other. This is the most impactful chapter of my 8 year career so far, helping fellow countrymen. Although I'm Active Duty now, this will always resonate with me on the deepest levels.
Drake Bentley where overseas?
Lesson is: don’t build or buy anywhere even remotely close to a flood plain. Increased urban sprawl makes it difficult to predict future parameters in flood plain analysis.
yeh maybe you can build a time machine and go back 200 years and tell everyone before they build half of America.
Otherwise it's pretty fucking stupid advice
let me guess, the next upcoming story is how the real heroes of 9/11 were actually Realtors too
trump is pretty good at that...
I lost my house to Harvey, and this video really brought me back
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Yurrr
Congrats on letting people know where exactly they can find the hoes in Houston.
Am so sorry
Hope y’all are better
I'm still rebuilding from Harvey. Done almost all of it myself, over 75k in damages so far.
it was all very touching but the most touching was that little girl with leukemia! i hope she gets full recovery and never have cancer again!
Huh - maybe climate change is real? Do you think? Talk about federal funding helped the well-to-do while less influential neighborhoods were ignored.
I become homeless for months after Harvey did not get a house again till mid 2018
troy smith My friends took 18 months to repair and pay for repairs to their house.
How did you survive?
@@raulrios158 getting shelter in anyplace I could find almost staved to death because it was hard to find food did not eat for almost 2 weeks it was hell and I don't wise what I had to go through on nobody but thank god I am still living.
Land Of Thrill I lucked out. I took refuge at my friends’ house in Katy, TX, west of Houston. I stayed there a week.
@Cece Ruben they did not do it for us it was hell but I was happy because I sent my wife and kids to a safe place and was going to follow but it got so bad I could not leave but god let me survive what don't kill you makes you stronger.
0:17 that man on the far right is my spirit animal
What a great ending to what seems like a long 2 year ordeal for that family
amazing work they do ❤❤💖true heros
Survey says, Steve Harvey damaged Houston big time
Im from houston. Got flooded out and got relocated out of state. I miss houston but fuck the flooding.
I still remember this day. My father had 4/5 of his condos flooded with 3 and half feet of water. His entire life’s work was gone within 24hours. And he’s the worst part. My dad has just got done re doing one of them and we sold it for 80k and was suppose to get the check in hand the day Harvey hit. Some of them are still the frames of an apartment.
This really makes me feel bad for thos who lost so much .
I thought everyone in Texas rode horses
Most people here drive pickups and SUVs.
Houston is filled with Slammed trucks and hoopties. Trokiando cuuuuh 😂
David r/wooossshhh
@@imjustaboiwitharocketlaunc6066 No.
The neighborhood right next to mine was completely flooded and I ended up doing volentier work to help people that got water damage. I remember seeing an areal picture of my high school with water coming all the way up to the doors.
Still know people trying to get back in their homes. Since I've moved here after getting out of the Air Force, I've been through two hurricanes in my home. Ike was primarily a wind event for me, almost going directly over my house, and then Harvey, which was a water event. Thankfully made it relatively intact through both (lost some fence from Ike, lost power for two weeks), stayed dry through Harvey, water did come up half way up the yard. After Harvey, finally bought the flood insurance, that $300-400 a year buys a lot of relief. Just it's not a question of if it's coming again, but when.
I will seriously think about moving back to East Texas after I retire, seen enough hurricanes for the rest of my life!
I love my city ❤️
My family and all of our neighbors got two feet of water in our houses. Luckily my parents are architects and new what to do when it came to construction. We lived in the same house for about 4 months without walls and many common appliances before we moved into a rent house close by that wasnt flooded. We moved into our new house built on the same property about two months before the two year anniversary of Harvey, August 28. People are still moving back into their houses although most of my neighborhood is still deserted. Many people got small budgets for renovations from flood insurance not being able to raise or rebuild their house. Houston is still recovering and probably will be for many years to come. But houston remained strong, many people in the community coming together to help each other. Houston strong!!
If affected far more than just Houston. It was horrible.
Most of my family is still in Texas. Some lost just about everything and are still fighting to get a bit of a life back after Harvey.
I wish places like this, would talk about more then just Houston though. Cause Houston is not the only part that flooded nor were they the only ppl who lost everything.
After living most of my life in Texas, and dealing with that, I can never live in a area again where I have to fear water that much. Natural disasters happened everywhere, so, sadly, you just have to pick a place that has either the fewest of them, or ones you can handle better. And of course, that is if you can EVEN make a choice to leave. Not everyone can.
You should something similar to this on hurricane Michael. Many people forgot about the impact that hurricane Michael has made. As a category 5 hurricane it was the strongest hurricane in the past 70 years. It also took the longest amount of time to receive federal aid to help recovery efforts by more than triple the length of the time for the previous longest time to receive aid. Almost everyone in the Panama City and Mexico beach area had severe damage to their homes. And it caused 1/4 people of bay county to move away. There are still many people who were living comfortably before the storm that are now homeless.
This is what happens when you build a city on a floodplain.
Except, as the video stated bluntly which makes me think you didn't watch it, most of the homes affected weren't in a flood zone. The flood zone was barely near the river until the population exploded.
This was a rain storm that just stayed in one spot. It wasn't a normal flood.
But yeah. Sadly, a lot of cities are now in flood areas that 50 years ago weren't. Climate change is killing people.
I’ve worked with SBP in NYC and Puerto Rico and they are honestly the nicest organization. If you’re looking for a place to volunteer. Volunteer with them
It was honestly mostly the releasing of the Dams that did the most harm.
I love vice it is the best
how cute is that mexican family
Why is it people don,t learn anything.Houses on stilts ,raise the house levels so it doesn’t affect you that much ,it will happen again
People do learn. It's not always possible to raise houses. How do you raise a multistory apartment building? It's also very expensive. The man in the video said in one case it was three times the value of the home.
My area (not Tx but La) changed building codes for new construction. People try to adapt. In every weather event we learn something.
Personally me and my family have been through many hurricanes but Harvey sat over our area and just poured rain for hours
Harvey ain’t stop nobody !! We steady holdn it down out here in Houston😋
And the storms gonna be getting stronger too
God bless this family
This story was really good. I would like to see one about how people are still living in trailer because of sketchy contractors. How many people signed up to work for a company but never got payed after finishing the job during and after Harvey.
7:08 Now that is what I call foreshadowing.
I remember when I went to help people whose homes were flooded it was something out of a movie neighborhood roads were filled with debris and belongings and its something I hope never happens again
I live in College Station (c/o '17 WHOOP) and was supposed to go see my parents in Stafford. Dad told me to wait. Usually, he exaggerates the severity of the weather forecasts but, this time, he underestimated it. I still didn't go, and water only got halfway up their driveway, thank God. Elevation change from street to the front porch is probably 5'? On a street that hasn't flooded. Ever. The defunct Texas World Speedway right off of Hwy 6 S of CStat housed most of the flooded cars. You could smell the stench even from the highway. It was insane. (I have raced cars there before, too, so it was doubly sickening) Two friends of mine died in Allison, in separate incidents, and I lost a friend in Katrina. Us native Houstonians have seen some sh*t, man. And we always, without fail, manage to band together - the #1 most diverse city in the world - and pick each other back up. Then 1 year later get back to our road rage assaults. Then another disaster brings us all together. We're weird.
You should of atleast shout out the houston rappers who really helped out they city during hurricane harvy
I just moved from Florida to Colorado, in part to get away from hurricanes. After going through Irma, I'll take a snowstorm over a hurricane any day.
I was there. Good thing it didnt' hit Spring too hard. So many mansions flooded and ruined. xD
I had a blast during harvey
I kayaked down my street
Glad I live in Colorado
A disaster like this happening was actually completely predictable, but developers decided to ignore the flood risk of the area and built anyway
Who stands to gain the most from events like this? When you consider post damage and rebuilding.
And people still deny climate change.
This event didn't prove or disprove climate change. The destruction was caused by a very slow moving storm over highly developed and populated area and the release of the dams.
This Category 4 monster caused Katrina-like damage despite the difference in damage types.
Why is the music louder that their voices
Our ditches have been shit for years. They should have redug the ditches & taken the soil somewhere west where its needed. One inch of water can determine alot
Father of 7? Give your wife a break man.
GOD BLESS U BROTHER!
que Deus ajude os usa
7 kids? Looks like he had a lot of free time. The number of children directly correlates to the level of education. Poor people tend to have more kids.
And they’ll be less lonely and abandoned when they’re old.
Harvey wiped out most of rockport tx including my mother's home. No one ever came to help we r still trying to rebuild. The world reached out to the residents of Houston but no one speaks of rockport where the hurricane actually touched ground. It's so disappointing. Houston is a big city while rockport is small so no news reports no fema no help
We still have alot of damage from harvey
Yeah, maybe i need to stay in Pennsylvania.🌿
This is the deal America needs to build homes in these areas with materials like cement and metal ...... hospitals are not flying away police stations are not flying away anything heavy is not flying away.... take a hint I understand its more expensive probably from 100 k home to 300 k house....
7 kids.. god damn
Which zip codes did not get houses flooded
Really
We still can not afford to fix our house
And fema gave us 2,000 for our entire house ! Let alone we don’t have a vehicle either
WATEVER
HOUSTON STRONG🧡💪
How is Houston doing now?
Sea levels aren't rising they're actually stable.
Watching this after "crawl"
I was trappin on a jet ski wym harvey aint stop shit
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
It has very little to do with climate related factors and everything to do with concrete can't absorb water like soil can.
Steve Harvey's tears.
In 2020 watching this
I love how no one talks about Corpus Christi
Sidious1 Houston was a swamp for 10 days.
I know I live 35 minutes away CC got a direct hit from the eye wall people barley even mention it South east Texas made up of more than just Houston
Saw a news about a guy saved his house using some flood protector called aquadams!!
Watch Earthlings if you don’t want it to keep happening. Saying from a place of love
My whole year was ruined because of the storm.
Well...according to Ben Shapiro "Those people should just sell their homes" lmfao Ik my internet comment means nothing but my heart really does go out to these people.
What about just moving.
I don’t understand how you can rebuild in an area that you know will flood again. Why?
What parts of houston is not habitable
Mean time Huston will still drilling and polluting the air