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	box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}
.topnavbarright { width: 250px; padding: 0px !important;}
.topnavbarright input[type=text]:focus {
	-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
	-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
	box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
	color: #444 !important;
}
.sno-submit-search-button { cursor: pointer;}
#catpage h2, #searchpage h2 { font-size: 2.5em !important;}
h2 { background: none !important;}
.widgetwrap h3 { line-height: 1em !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 5px !important; }
.desc .widgettitle a, .widgetheadlineoverlay a.homeheadline { color: #fff !important; }
.carousel-widget-slide .desc { padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;}
.desc p{margin:0px; color:#ffffff; font-size:14px; padding-top:1px; margin: 0px 0px 8px !important; }
.widgetheadlineoverlay { margin-top:5px;}
input.s::focus { color: #000;}
.fw2-panel .desc .widgetheadline { padding: 5px 10px 0; }
.fw2-panel .desc .widgetheadline a { color: #fff !important; }
.fw2-panel .desc p, .topstoryslide .desc. p { padding-left: 10px; }
#home .slideroverlay p { padding-left: 10px !important; }

.widgetfullscreen { width: 100vw !important; margin-left: calc(-50vw + 50%); }
.desc p.carouselbyline { padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; }
.carouseloverlay { background: #000; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0;}
.carouseloverlaytext { padding-left: 10px !important; padding-right: 10px !important;}
.carouseloverlaytext .carouselbyline a, .carouseloverlaytext .carouselbyline { color: #fff !important; }
.carousel-widget-slide .carouselbyline { margin-top:7px;}
.carousel-widget-slide .desc p.carouselbyline { padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; }
#home-immersion .footerbar { background-color: #000; opacity: .5; color: #fff !important; padding: 2px 0px 0px; height: 24px; width:100%; position: fixed; bottom:0; }
.carouseloverlaytext { cursor: pointer; }

#home .slideroverlay p { padding-left: 10px !important; }
.video { width: auto; border: none; padding: 0px;}

.home-immersion-header { border-top: none; }
#immersion-image { position: absolute; right: 50%; transform: translateX(50%); }
.parallaximagesloading {display:none; }
@media only screen and (max-width: 850px) {
	.parallaxcontainer {
		height: auto;
	}

}
.parallax-mobile-overlay { position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding:20px; cursor: pointer; width: auto; height: 100%; }
.parallax-mobile-widget-tile { width: 100%; position: relative; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3px; }
.parallax-mobile-widget-tile .topstorycat { margin-bottom:10px;}

.parallaxoverlay .blockscat { display: inline-block; }
.parallaxoverlay .carouselbyline { margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top:10px;}
.parallaxoverlay .carouselbyline a { color: #fff !important;}
.jump-to-header { display: none; position: fixed; top: 20px; left: 20px; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); padding: 2px; border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; z-index: 9999; color: #fff8de; text-decoration: none; opacity: .5; transition: opacity 0.3s ease-out; cursor: pointer; }
.jump-to-header:hover { opacity: 1; border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; text-decoration: none; }
.jump-to-header-logo { display: none; position: fixed; top: 20px; left: 20px; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); z-index: 9999; text-decoration: none; opacity: .5; transition: opacity 0.3s ease-out; cursor: pointer; border: 1px solid #ddd; }
.jump-to-header-logo:hover { opacity: 1; border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; text-decoration: none; }
.jump-to-header-logo img { max-height: 50px; }


.loadingmenu { display:none !important; }
.skip-transform {
  -webkit-transition: all .5s ease;  
  -moz-transition: all .5s ease;  
  -o-transition: all .5s ease;  
  -ms-transition: all .5s ease;  
  transition: all .5s ease;
}

.skip-transform-active { background: #fff; }
.skip-text { padding-right:8px; float: left; padding-top:5px; }
.home-immersion-overlay .skip-text { padding: 5px 8px; }
.home-immersion-overlay .immersion-header { position: fixed; top: 20px; left: 20px; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); border: 1px solid #fff; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; z-index: 100; color: #fff8de; text-decoration: none; opacity: .5; transition: opacity 0.3s ease-out; cursor: pointer; }
.immersion-header:hover { opacity: 1; border-color: #fff; text-decoration: none; }

.jumparrow { display: block; height: 40px; width: 40px; position: fixed; bottom: 20px; right: 20px; background-size: contain; z-index: 100; background-color: #fff; opacity: .3; border-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer; transition: opacity 0.3s ease-out;}
.jumparrow:hover, #above-header-menu:hover { opacity: 1; }
.scrolldownarrow { display: block; height: 30px; width: 30px; background-size: contain; float:left; }

.bouncearrow {
  animation: bouncearrow 2s infinite ease-in-out;
  animation-fill-mode: both;
}



@keyframes bouncearrow {
	0%, 20%, 50%, 80%, 100% {
    transform: translateY(0);
  } 40% { 
    transform: translateY(-30px);
  }
	60% {
	transform: translateY(-15px);
  }
}
.widgetwrap .bcg { cursor: pointer; }

.parallaxcontainer { background: #000; height:100vh; width: 100%; }
.parallaxcontainer section { display:none; height: 100vh; }
.no-js .parallaxcontainer section {
	opacity: 1;
	-webkit-transition: opacity 300ms ease-out;
	-moz-transition: opacity 300ms ease-out;
	transition: opacity 300ms ease-out;
}
#home-immersion-content { overflow:hidden;}
.no-js #home-immersion-content { display:block; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 300ms ease-out; }
.top-left { left:15vh;top:15vh;right:auto;bottom:auto; }
.top-center { right:auto;left:50%;top:15vh;bottom:auto;transform: translateX(-50%); }
.top-right { right:15vh;top:15vh;left:auto;bottom:auto; }
.middle-left { left:15vh;right:auto;bottom:auto;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%); }
.middle-center { left:50%;top:50%;right:auto;bottom:auto;transform:translate(-50%,-50%); }
.middle-right { right:15vh;top:50%;left:auto;bottom:auto;transform:translateY(-50%); }
.bottom-left { left:15vh;bottom:15vh;right:auto;top:auto; }
.bottom-center { left:50%;bottom:15vh;top:auto;right:auto;transform:translateX(-50%); }
.bottom-right { right:15vh;bottom:15vh;left:auto;top:auto; }
#upperwrap {
	font-size: 12px;
	font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
	background: #000;
	margin: 0px auto;
	padding: 0px;
	position: relative;
    z-index: 10;
    max-width: 980px;    
	}
#upperwrap-outer { width: 100%; }
#immersion-image { position: absolute; right: 50%; transform: translateX(50%); }
.home-immersion-overlay .lf_menu_icon_bar { height: 3px; margin-top: 5px; }
.home-immersion-overlay .lf_menu_icon { width: 23px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 2px 8px 8px; background: #000; opacity: .5; transition: opacity 0.3s ease-out; }
.home-immersion-overlay .lf_menu_icon:hover { opacity: 1; }
#home-immersion { position:relative;width:100%;height:100vh;overflow:hidden; }
.home-immersion-overlay { position: relative; width: 100%; height: 100vh; }
#immersion-image { cursor: pointer; }
.parallaxoverlay .sno_teaser_carousel { margin-top: 20px; }
.hsContent .sno_teaser_carousel p { color: #fff; }
.immersion-header-logo { position: fixed; top: 20px; left: 20px; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); z-index: 9999; text-decoration: none; opacity: .5; transition: opacity 0.3s ease-out; cursor: pointer; border: 1px solid #ddd; }
.immersion-header-logo:hover { opacity: 1; border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; text-decoration: none; }
.immersion-header-logo img { max-height: 50px; }
.continue-overlay { padding-top:20px; padding-bottom:20px; text-align: center; }
.continue { padding-top:20px; text-align: center; }
.continue-overlay-link { text-align:center; border:1px solid #fff; padding: 8px 10px; color: #fff; background: none; font-size:12px;letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all .5s ease-in-out; cursor: pointer; }
.continue-overlay-link:hover { background: #fff; color: #000; }
.continue-link { text-align:center; border:1px solid #e5e5e5; padding: 8px 10px; color: #777777; background: #fbfbfb; font-size:10px;letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all .5s ease-in-out; cursor: pointer; }
.continue-link:hover { background: #161616; color: #fff; border-color: #161616; }
.grid-widget-tile .sno_date_carousel { padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; }
.grid-widget-tile { text-align: center; }
.parallaxoverlay .continue-overlay { padding-top: 30px; }
.parallaxoverlay { text-align: center; }
.home-immersion-text .continue-overlay { padding-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 0px; }
.headerlink { cursor: pointer; }
.parallaximagesloading {display:none; }

.view-all-container { padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:0px; text-align: center; }
.view-all-text, .view-all-grid-text { text-align:center; border:1px solid #e5e5e5; padding: 8px 10px; color: #777777; background: #fbfbfb; font-size:14px;letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all .5s ease-in-out; cursor: pointer; }
.view-all-text:hover, .view-all-grid-text:hover { background: #161616; color: #fff; border-color: #161616; }
a.view-all-link:hover { text-decoration: none !important; }
.view-all-container-grid, .view-all-container-category { display:block; margin: 10px 0; padding-top:10px; text-align:center;}
.view-all-grid, .view-all-category { display: inline-block; }
.fw2-panel .desc p.fwbyline { margin-left: 10px !important; margin-right: 10px !important; }
.carouseloverlay p, .carouseloverlay a { color: #fff !important; }
.carouseloverlay { padding: 10px 15px;}
.hsContent p { color: #fff; }
#upperwrap .widgetwrap:last-of-type { margin-bottom: 0px; }
/* end remove after March 1, 2018 */

/* end temp */



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		color: #000000 !important; 
		border-color: #000000 !important; 
	}#menu-a-menu, #menu-more-a { float:left;}#navbar a { 
		color: #ffffff !important; 
		background-color: #000000 !important; 
		font-family: Montserrat !important; 
		text-transform: uppercase !important;
	}#navbar a:hover, #navbar a:focus, #mini-logo-top:hover, #mini-logo-top:focus  { 
		background-color: #990000 !important; 
		color: #ffffff !important;
	}#navbar .current-menu-ancestor a, #navbar .current-menu-item a, #navbar .current-menu-parent a {
		background-color: #990000 !important; 
		color: #ffffff !important;
	}#navbar .current-menu-ancestor a:hover, #navbar .current-menu-item a:hover, #navbar .current-menu-parent a:hover, #navbar .current-menu-ancestor a:focus, #navbar .current-menu-item a:focus, #navbar .current-menu-parent a:focus {
		background-color: #000000 !important; 
		color: #ffffff !important;
	}#navbar .menu-item-home a, #navbar .menu-item-object-custom a {
		color: #ffffff !important; 
		background-color: #000000 !important; 
	}#navbar .menu-item-home a:hover, #navbar .menu-item-object-custom a:hover, #navbar .menu-item-home a:focus, #navbar .menu-item-object-custom a:focus {
		color: #ffffff !important; 
		background-color: #990000 !important; 
	}.navbarwrap, #navbar, #navbar a { 
		background-image: none !important; 
		background-color: #000000 !important;
	}.navbarwrap { 
		background-color: #000000 !important; 
		border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff; 
		color: #ffffff !important; 
		}#navbar a { 
		color: #ffffff !important; 
		background-color: #000000 !important; 
		font-family: Montserrat !important; 
		text-transform: uppercase !important;
		}#menu, #slidemenu {
		font-family: Montserrat !important; 
		text-transform: uppercase !important; 
		}#menu-b-menu, #menu-more {
		float:left;
		}#subnavbar a { 
		background-color: #000000 !important; 
		color: #ffffff !important;  
		font-family: Montserrat !important; 
		text-transform: uppercase !important; 
		}#subnavbar a:hover, #mini-logo-bottom:hover, #subnavbar a:focus, #mini-logo-bottom:focus { 
		background-color: #990000 !important; 
		color: #ffffff !important;  
		}#subnavbar .current-menu-ancestor a, #subnavbar .current-menu-item a, #subnavbar .current-menu-parent a {
		background-color: #990000 !important; 
		color: #ffffff !important;
		}#subnavbar .current-menu-ancestor a:hover, #subnavbar .current-menu-item a:hover, #subnavbar .current-menu-parent a:hover, #subnavbar .current-menu-ancestor a:focus, #subnavbar .current-menu-item a:focus, #subnavbar .current-menu-parent a:focus  {
		background-color: #000000 !important; 
		color: #ffffff !important;
		}#subnavbar .menu-item-home a, #subnavbar .menu-item-object-custom a {
		color: #ffffff !important; 
		background-color: #000000 !important; 
		}#subnavbar .menu-item-home a:hover, #subnavbar .menu-item-object-custom a:hover, #subnavbar .menu-item-home a:focus, #subnavbar .menu-item-object-custom a:focus {
		color: #ffffff !important; 
		background-color: #990000 !important; 
		}#subnavbar, #subnavbar a, .subnavbarwrap { 
			background-image: none !important; 
			}.subnavbarwrap {
			background-color: #000000 !important; 
			border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff; 
			}#subnavbar { 
			background-color: #000000 !important; 
			color: #ffffff !important; 
			}.innerbackgroundwrap {
		background-color: #ffffff !important; 
		}#fullwrap {
		background-color: #ffffff !important; 
		border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff; 
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		border-bottom: 1px solid #ffffff; 
		background-color: #ffffff !important; 
		color: #b31a1c !important;background-image: none !important;}#topnavbar { 
		background-color: #ffffff !important; 
		color: #b31a1c; 
		}#topnavbar, .topnavwrap {
		background-image: none !important; 
		}.topnavwrap a {color: #b31a1c !important; }#footer, .footerwrap {
		color: #000000 !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}#footer p, #footer a {
		color: #000000 !important;
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		}.footertagline p {
		font-family: Montaga !important; 
		}.footerwrap {
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		background-color: #ffffff !important;
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			text-transform:uppercase !important; 
			text-align:center !important; 
			margin:0px !important; 
			font-weight: normal !important; font-size: 12px !important; 
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		text-transform:capitalize !important; 
		background: #fffff!important;color: #990000 !important; 
			font-weight:normal!important;
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			line-height: 28px!important; 
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		background: #ffffff !important;border: 0px solid #dddddd !important; 
				background-color: #ffffff !important; 
				color: #990000 !important; 
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				padding-top: 6px; 
				font-weight:normal!important;font-size:17px !important; 
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		color:#990000 !important;
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		color:#ffffff !important;
		background: #990000 !important;padding: 0px 8px; 
			font-weight:bold !important;
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		border-left: 0px solid #dddddd; 
		border-right: 0px solid #dddddd; 
		border-bottom: 0px solid #dddddd; 
		background-color: #ffffff; 
		padding:10px;
		overflow:hidden;
		}.widgetbody2 { 
		border-left:  solid ; 
		border-right:  solid ; 
		border-bottom:  solid ;margin-bottom:10px; padding:10px;overflow:hidden;
		}.widgetbody3 { 
		border-right: 0px solid #dddddd; 
		border-left: 0px solid #dddddd; 
		background-color: #ffffff; 
		padding:10px;
		overflow:hidden;
		}.widgetfooter3 { 
		background: #fffff !important;
		height:15px;
		width:100%;
		background-color: #fffff;
		}.widgetbody4 { 
		border-left: 1px solid #dddddd; 
		border-right: 1px solid #dddddd; 
		border-bottom: 1px solid #dddddd; 
		background-color: #ffffff !important;  
		padding:10px; 
		clear:both;
		overflow:hidden;
		}.widgetbody6 { 
		border-left: 0px solid #dddddd; 
		border-right: 0px solid #dddddd; 
		border-bottom: 0px solid #dddddd; 
		background-color: #ffffff; 
		padding:10px;
		overflow:hidden;
		}.widgetbody7 { 
		background-color: #ffffff; padding: 10px; overflow:hidden;}.widgetbody8 { 
		background-color: #ffffff; 
		padding: 10px; 
		overflow:hidden;
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		background: #b31a1c !important;color: #ffffff !important; 
		border-left:0px solid #dddddd !important; 
		border-right:0px solid #dddddd !important; 
		border-top:0px solid #dddddd !important; font-size:17px !important;
		line-height:27px !important;font-weight:normal!important; 
		text-transform:none!important; 
		padding-top:3px !important;
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		margin-top: 0px; 
		color: #ffffff; 
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		border-left: 0px solid #dddddd !important; 
		border-right: 0px solid #dddddd !important; 
		border-bottom: 0px solid #dddddd !important; 
		background-color: #ffffff !important;
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		font-family: Montserrat !important;
		font-size: 16px !important; 
		line-height: 22px !important; 
		margin: 0px 0px 3px 0px !important; 
		padding: 0px !important; 
		background:none!important;
		color:#000000!important; 
		text-align: left!important;border:none!important; 
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<p id='graph2'><span style="font-weight: 400;">With high speed winds blowing through the trees, a sudden downpour of rain pounding on the roof, and the electricity out, Natalie Stark was without her husband and left alone to keep her kids, along with herself, calm during the arrival of Hurricane Harvey on the night of Aug. 25.</span></p>
<p id='graph3'><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I was there when the storm started, my husband was out of town and my boys Stephen and Mason were with me at home,” Natalie said. “We just all hung out in different parts of the house off and on for a few nights. They would stay up late and I would get a little bit of sleep and then I’d let them sleep and I’d stay awake just to be on the safe side and make sure everything was OK.”</span></p>
<p id='graph4'><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Starks live in </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Richmond,+TX/@29.5892959,-95.793441,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x86411de1844ffac5:0x3b7a2d2657c7f42e!8m2!3d29.5821811!4d-95.7607832"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Richmond</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, southwest of Houston, and were forced to evacuate three days ago because of the flooding from non-stop rain and the overflow from the Brazos River. </span></p>
<p id='graph5'><span style="font-weight: 400;">“When we had our house built, about three-and-a-half years ago, we had to have it built up a little bit higher than all of the people who first started building there almost 20 years ago,” Natalie said. “So we have been a little bit more lucky than some of the people. Our neighbors houses are not as high up, but they’ve been lucky so far, [the water] has not gotten to any of the houses that are close by.”</span></p>
<p id='graph6'><span style="font-weight: 400;">Firefighters from around the Dallas-Fort Worth area made their way down Monday night to affected areas to do their part in helping rescue and assist families like the Starks. Firefighters from Lucas traveled to some of the hardest hit areas along the coast in Fulton and Rockport, just northeast of Corpus Christi.</span></p>
<div class='pullquote left  background-gray shadow borderall sno-animate' style='border-color: #888888;'><div class='largequote' style='color: #888888;'>&ldquo;</div><p class='pullquotetext'>Our neighbors houses are not as high up, but they’ve been lucky so far, [the water] has not gotten to any of the houses that are close by.&rdquo;</p><p class='quotespeaker'>&mdash; Richmond resident Natalie Stark</p></div>
<p id='graph9'><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Lucas Fire is part of a </span><a href="http://ticc.tamu.edu/Response/TIFMAS.htm"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TIFMAS</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> [Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System] program with the state. During any natural disaster we are deployed to areas that need help,” Lucas firefighter Matt Malik said. “We are a part of a strike force team with Plano, Princeton, Greenville, and Prosper Fire where our deployment could be four to seven days and as many as 10 days.”</span></p>
<p id='graph10'><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lucas firefighters have been sleeping on cots and without water to shower at the Fulton volunteer fire department. </span></p>
<p id='graph11'><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Currently our assignment is to search through disaster homes for any victims or people that stayed during the storm,” Malik said. “Also to assist the local fire departments and run their calls. They have been working non-stop so we are reliving them so they can go fix their homes.”</span></p>
<p id='graph12'><span style="font-weight: 400;">Malik said the group is on call 24/7 and has been called out at night to respond to medical emergencies, fires and traffic crashes. </span></p>
<p id='graph13'><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We wake up and receive an assignment,” Malik said. “Today we are in various neighborhoods clearing homes. When a home is clear we use orange spray paint to mark an ‘X’ signifying it has been checked.”</span></p>
<p id='graph14'><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harvey, which has varied in strength from a category four hurricane to a tropical depression, attacked the Texas coast with winds as high as 132 miles-per-hour and more than 51 inches of rain. The storm has already caused around $190 billion in damage and has dropped 19 trillion gallons of water on Texas alone. The storm’s death toll has topped 47 casualties but expected to rise slowly as recovery efforts continues. </span></p>
<p id='graph15'><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Stark home is safe from water damage currently because of the height it was built on, but when the river crests, they are expecting flooding in parts of their house. However that may not be their biggest problem.</span></p>
<div class='pullquote right  background-gray shadow borderall sno-animate' style='border-color: #888888;'><div class='largequote' style='color: #888888;'>&ldquo;</div><p class='pullquotetext'>I never thought I would see something so horrific in an area.&rdquo;</p><p class='quotespeaker'>&mdash; Lucas firefighter Matt Malik</p></div>
<p id='graph18'><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My husband went back home yesterday and a lot of our neighbors have been staying [at their houses] because people have been going through looting,” Natalie said. “Someone went back behind our house the night before last ready to break in. Our neighbor was there and yelled out at them and had a gun and just shot the gun off to scare them off which did, but my husband, Steven, has seen other looters driving by in their vehicles today. So they’re trying to keep all that away while they can.”</span></p>
<p id='graph19'><span style="font-weight: 400;">Malik described the scene farther down the coast as “looking like a warzone.”</span></p>
<p id='graph20'><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I never thought I would see something so horrific in an area,” Malik said. “There are massive trees uprooted and thrown onto homes, multiple RVs are thrown hundreds of feet and flipped upside down, houses are completely demolished.”</span></p>
<p id='graph21'><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Stark family is currently staying about six minutes away from their current house in their old home which is now owned by Natalie&#8217;s mother-in-law. </span></p>
<p id='graph22'><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[My sons] were supposed to start [school] this past week on the 28th and of course that was canceled,” Natalie said. “Now they’re saying that they are going to start next Tuesday. That’s when they are planning to start most schools up here that are still in good shape. But there have been some schools in Houston and around Houston that have been flooded.”</span></p>
<p id='graph23'><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even though the Starks were victims of Harvey, the family, like Malik and the firefighters, still wants to assist their neighbors. </span></p>
<p id='graph24'><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I just worry about so many people who have lost their homes and some people have lost everything they have,” Natalie said. “I’m just wanting to get out and help but I can’t right now because of where we’re out we don’t have many places we can travel to. My mother-in-law and I are planning on trying to get over to one of the high schools in Rosenberg and take some things for those families that have lost most everything they had.”</span></p>
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