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          <h1 class="article-title">&#8216;Mattress Mack&#8217; Opens Gallery Furniture Locations As Shelters For Hurricane Harvey Victims</h1>
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      <small>by <a href="https://www.paulickreport.com/author/paulick-report-staff/" title="Posts by Paulick Report Staff" rel="author">Paulick Report Staff</a> | 08.29.2017 | 10:19am </small>
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                <p>As part of the massive effort to help aid families displaced by Hurricane Harvey, longtime Houston businessman Jim &#8216;Mattress Mack' McIngvale has opened up two of his Gallery Furniture locations for residents needing shelter.</p>
<p><em>Time.com</em> reports that McIngvale, who has been known for his charitable work over the years, announced on the Gallery Furniture Facebook page on Sunday that two of its locations –  one just north of downtown Houston and the other near Richmond, Texas, would have &#8220;food, beds and restrooms available for anyone in need — including kenneled pets.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gallery Furniture is also using its largest truck to help rescue people displaced by flooding. McIngvale has been involved in horse racing for many years, and is the owner of 2015 champion sprinter and Breeders' Cup champion, Runhappy.</p>
<p>Read more at <a href="http://time.com/4919017/gallery-furniture-houston-harvey-hurricane-shelter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Time.com</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Jim &#8220;Mattress Mack&#8221; McIngvale of Gallery Furniture is also providing free meals to the refugees in his stores. <a href="https://t.co/djI2LfISqJ">pic.twitter.com/djI2LfISqJ</a></p>
<p>— Dose (@dose) <a href="https://twitter.com/dose/status/902592456105095168">August 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Inside a <a href="https://twitter.com/MattressMack">@MattressMack</a> Gallery Furniture store-turned-shelter. Evacuees grateful to be sleeping on brand new mattresses, Nat Guard here, too <a href="https://t.co/nQ15zxZGcf">pic.twitter.com/nQ15zxZGcf</a></p>
<p>— Sonia Moghe (@soniamoghe) <a href="https://twitter.com/soniamoghe/status/902597106569023489">August 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Lovely pic in <a href="https://twitter.com/HoustonChron">@HoustonChron</a> of Gallery Furniture giving shelter to 200 whose homes are flooded. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LookForTheHelpersTX?src=hash">#LookForTheHelpersTX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GFToday">@GFToday</a> <a href="https://t.co/qnDIRwLkWP">pic.twitter.com/qnDIRwLkWP</a></p>
<p>— Julie Cohen (@FilmmakerJulie) <a href="https://twitter.com/FilmmakerJulie/status/902321159529779201">August 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Gallery Furniture offered beds <a href="https://t.co/7jkVwTe7Nq">pic.twitter.com/7jkVwTe7Nq</a></p>
<p>— jon michael running (@jonmrunning) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonmrunning/status/902623428800380928">August 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Huge shout out to Gallery Furniture in Houston for opening their warehouse for people AND their pets! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeAreOne?src=hash">#WeAreOne</a> <a href="https://t.co/liMvrr03Rt">https://t.co/liMvrr03Rt</a> <a href="https://t.co/FwnNiYkFEi">pic.twitter.com/FwnNiYkFEi</a></p>
<p>— Pibble Life (@Pibble_Life) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pibble_Life/status/902607761590059008">August 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">No surprise to see <a href="https://twitter.com/MattressMack">@MattressMack</a> helping people. Last year he picked me up, put me up at his house and took me to hospital. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mackbeingmack?src=hash">#mackbeingmack</a></p>
<p>— Frank Mirahmadi (@FrankMirahmadi) <a href="https://twitter.com/FrankMirahmadi/status/902569475878162433">August 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434526" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>While I have been a staunch critic of the way he runs his racing operation, I have nothing but thanks and praise for this gesture. Jim McIngvale you done good.</p>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434543" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>This is hardly the &#8220;first&#8221; time he has &#8220;given&#8221; done things for the folks of his hometown. He is very well liked and from what I understand has done a lot of &#8220;community service&#8221; . He just doesn&#8217;t make a media event out of his charitable deeds. </p>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434544" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Heard him on NPR this morning. No grandstanding, no taking advantage of &#8220;free publicity&#8221;. Pretty darn humble in my opinion.</p>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434558" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>It&#8217;s amazing and gratifying to see how people can come together during times of turmoil, emergencies, and extreme difficulties.  Perhaps, these times provide perspective that, at other times, can be so out of whack!  Perhaps, those petty disagreements of the past are forgotten and replaced with civility.  At the root of this is a reemergence of setting higher priorities.  Hope that, regardless of how some may viewed this owner related to things of the past, that they will know that this is a time to thank him</p>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434632" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Outstanding marketing ploy&#8230;.People&#8217;s personal belongings get destroyed, invite them in and let them use your floor models, they&#8217;ll be lining up to buy when the FEMA checks roll in&#8230;BRILLIANT!!!</p>
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            <cite id="dsq-cite-434909">
                <span id="dsq-author-user-434909">Ricky The Sailor</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434909" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434909" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>So I&#8217;m disgusting for recognizing the proprietor of a business that caters to gay clientele, but recognizing Mattress Mack is OK?!  Do you think Mack only sells those cheap mattresses to straight, religious freaks like you?</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-435027">Ricky The Sailor</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-435027" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-435027" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>What is disgusting about recognizing a businessman who caters to gay clientele, Kathy?  Are his deeds not as good as Mattress Mack&#8217;s?  Should the Paulick Report discontinue writing about John Sadler and Paddy Gallagher?  I would argue that it is you who is disgusting.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434649">Minneola</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434649" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434649" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Or, perhaps, just doing something to help others.  Why assume the negative when it is just as easy to believe that his intentions are good?  Your post speaks about your values and what it says is not that great.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434593">Blue Larkspur</span>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434593" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Better than &#8220;christian&#8221; Joel Osteen</p>
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            <cite id="dsq-cite-434570">
                <span id="dsq-author-user-434570">Charles Smith</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434570" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434570" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Credit where it&#8217;s due, no matter what some people think about his career as a horseman, by his selfless actions McIngvale has shown a very big heart for the displaced and homeless. He deserves much respect for what he&#8217;s done.</p>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-header-434703" class="dsq-comment-header">
            <cite id="dsq-cite-434703">
                <span id="dsq-author-user-434703">Charles Smith</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434703" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434703" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>There&#8217;s a well known preacher in Houston who did&#8217;nt step up the way Mattress Mack did.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434572">Bren higgins</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434572" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434572" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>I know there is a lot of devastation and a lot of people in need. But my daughters apartment was flooded she was lucky and went up on the second floor. My son-in-law is a deputy sheriff in Macgomery County and was out doing rescues. They have five children  with one in college. Their oldest my granddaughter has down syndrome. They lost most of their furniture last night while their dad was out helping with the rescue. I bought my Amanda my  down syndrome granddaughter A new memory foam mattress a few months ago. She needed it really bad. She is a happy little girl. She&#8217;s 22 but she&#8217;ll always be my little girl.  She lost that mattress in the flood last night. I still owe on it. And I can&#8217;t afford to buy her a new one. As you know our police officers don&#8217;t make that much but they do an awful lot to help our community. And that&#8217;s what her dad was doing last night. If you can help  please let me know. She so needs a new mattress. I know there is much more needy out there. But I am on retirement income. I am 71 years out. But she is my angel. Thank you so much</p>
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            <cite id="dsq-cite-434603">
                <span id="dsq-author-user-434603">Brent T</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434603" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434603" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Go see Mac. Explain the situation. He will probably give you a new one.</p>
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            <cite id="dsq-cite-434581">
                <span id="dsq-author-user-434581">Greg J.</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434581" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434581" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Bravo Mr. McIngvale (just wish photo didn&#8217;t include garbage in white hat).</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434597">RayPaulick</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434597" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434597" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>We&#8217;ve swapped out to a more appropriate photo. Thanks.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434618">Greg J.</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434618" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434618" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Thank you Ray.</p>
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            <cite id="dsq-cite-434600">
                <span id="dsq-author-user-434600">Richard C</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434600" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434600" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>As mentioned by another netizen, the story that was featured on NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition is a heartfelt gem&#8230;..and can be accessed through the headline: &#8220;Stores Full Of Furniture, &#8216;Mattress Mack&#8217; Opens His Doors To Flood Victims&#8221;.</p>
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            <cite id="dsq-cite-434601">
                <span id="dsq-author-user-434601">Wally George</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434601" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434601" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Very nice to hear about Mattress Mack helping out Frank Mirahmadi in his time of need. Too bad he didn&#8217;t also spring for some broadcasting lessons. That would have helped even more people &#8211; the ones who have to listen to Frank&#8217;s awful race calls. Why is it that CA race fans have granted such exalted status to Frank M. and Ed Burgart??  Neither could get a job at a college radio station.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434602">Brent T</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434602" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434602" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Being a horse owner myself and from Houston, I can tell you this is just him being himself. He does so many giveaways and charitable stuff in the community it&#8217;s unreal. I always buy there for that reason, spent almost 20k with him 2 years ago when moving into a new home&#8230;&#8230; Not to mention when you go to the main store to shop he is ALWAYS there and greets every single person thru the door, I mean ALWAYS.<br />
Mattress Mac is as good as it gets. He definitely &#8220;Runshappy&#8221;</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434606">gus stewart</span>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434606" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Seeing these pictures say a heck of alot about this man. Letting strangers in your home and im sure its like his home to him, is very kind. As a race fan i saw him purchase so many half million and up racehorses that were not very good on the racetrack. If he made those decisions, its on him. To those of you in the high end race horse sales game, this i hope would make u think twice b4 selling any other  wealthy owners over priced races horses. Thank you mr mack..</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434613">Charles Woolery</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434613" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434613" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Ok, the guy is doing a nice thing. One might consider the scale of this act of kindness in relationship to his means. You helping out one family might equate to what he is doing for thousands. So let&#8217;s not equate the Mattress Man to Mother Theresa. </p>
<p>Your last comment implies that sellers have taken advantage of him in the past, but should refrain from doing so in the future since he is doing a charitable thing now.  That&#8217;s like you giving $50 to a homeless guy on your way into Denny&#8217;s, but then expecting the restaurant to reciprocate by reducing the price of your Grand Slam. Is it age or drugs that fuel your scrambled thoughts?  I cannot get any younger, but you are sure encouraging me to refuse any future offers to &#8220;party.&#8221;</p>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-header-434624" class="dsq-comment-header">
            <cite id="dsq-cite-434624">
                <span id="dsq-author-user-434624">gus stewart</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434624" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434624" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>My comment was about the business. Never met tbe man, but i and others have seen many of his purchases and i mean many that were ranging fron 500000 to a million running for maiden 32000 if they made the race track. There are many agents and trainerd who really try to think its thier own money when they advise owners to buy a horse. But as in scent of a woman movie when pacino says to dean,,, I&#8217;ve been around,, and i have seen many wealthy potential owners getting started with the wrong agents. Caveat emptor always but racing needs owners and many have walked away feeling scammed. Never knew for years who this guy was just saw his name in form as owner, and he was the guy who made many terrible purchases</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434612">DDAmasa</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434612" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434612" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Just a wonderful thing for him to do.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434669">Michael Castellano</span>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434669" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>He should be praised for this expensive donation (furniture is unlikely to be sellable after this event is over) for the victims of this incredible flood. If you follow the history of Texas and the influence of oil on politics, you will find very little is spent on mitigating such disasters, and much is spent on   the oil refineries and their infrastructure and interests. Real estate has also worsened the suffering by building and selling houses in prime flood zones. This disaster was predicted just last year as Houston is on the top five list of cities that will eventually be devastated by this kind of storm. Miami is also on the list, and would be completely destroyed by such an event. Yet they continue to erect housing that will one day be destroyed. Happens all over the country and along the Mississippi as well. New Orleans would suffer a fate much worse that even Katrina was with this type of event. Storms over the Gulf have a history of stalling, 10,000 died in Central America in one such event. All construction should take these possibilities into account. Spill ways should be constructed at regular distances for resevoirs as they do for dams. Of course it will never happen, makes too much sense.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434690">whirlaway</span>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434690" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Wow not only interesting but exactly what we were just talking about the housing development in areas where you are sitting on a keg of dynamite and hoping it will never<br />
explode. We are wondering as everything is decided upon in what will undoubtedly be a very extended period of time if some homes will be condemned as some were in Katrina.<br />
This is just such a disaster and unthinkable how long these poor people will not have their<br />
normal daily lives.  In the 1990&#8217;s my first husband wanted us to move to Galveston after flying down there to  judge at dog shows in that area and I told him that is not going to happen. Storms really come in off the Gulf but it is still a nice area and it is a shame to see this devastation.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434699">Michael Castellano</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434699" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434699" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>At least 6,000 died in Galveston in 1900 when a hurricane made a direct hit. I will avoid politics, but denying global warming at this point just because the oil companies say it&#8217;s nonsense will one day result in all the coastal big cities in the world, and in our own country, being flooded. A global disaster that we can still prevent.</p>
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            <cite id="dsq-cite-434718">
                <span id="dsq-author-user-434718">whirlaway</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434718" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434718" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>I did remember watching a documentary on that, I have already read there could be<br />
a loss of coastal areas clear up the east coast in years to come even in  New England where I am. As a young girl I told my Mother I was not going to have children and never did I can&#8217;t tell you how many people back in the 70&#8217;s would respond with good I can have your<br />
share, point being part of the problem too many humans on the planet everywhere.<br />
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434700">Minneola</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434700" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434700" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>After Katrina, eyes in California shifted to the Delta area (between San Francisco and Sacramento).  Housing has been allowed to develop in areas so very close to its hundreds of miles of antiquated levees, which are constantly being repaired.  Levee breaks have happened, at times, but often near agricultural fields.  However, now that thousands and thousands of homes are right next to those levees (and in flood plains), there is a fear that a levee break in that area could be a far worse tragedy, in dollars, than Katrina.  I fault these local leaders in allowing this kind of building.  And, in Sacramento?  Few are aware that its &#8220;Old Town&#8221; is actually not at its original ground level but raised about 30-40 feet after that area flooded over a hundred years ago.  There are tours now for visitors to walk through this underground history.  And, just a short hop north of Sacramento, there is the Oroville dam, which made national news.  Many old spillways need to be reevaluated.  The construction in days past may not hold up if dams or reservoirs reach historical heights.  But, I agree.  The chances of anyone taking a proactive approach makes too much sense.  Instead, they will wait until the next tragedy occurs and, then, hide from their lack of being responsible.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434702">Michael Castellano</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434702" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434702" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Make sure you get all your friends out to vote in the next election before we all drown. Where I live, New York City, would also suffer the same fate if a large tropical storm stalled over us. It already almost happened 10 &#8211; 20 years ago, when the storm stalled upstate, just missing stalling over NYC.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434704">Rachel</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434704" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434704" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>If we ever again have a hurricane like Hurricane of 1938 &#8221; The Long Island Express&#8221; there will be no words to describe the losses.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434720">Michael Castellano</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434720" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434720" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>I too live on the Island and it will happen again one day. just a matter of time. How much time no one knows. Sandy was predicted 30 &#8211; 40 years ago, and that spared the Island the worst scenario as it went right up the Hudson River. Had it hit mid-island, thousands may have been lost.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434675">Elle D</span>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434675" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>After living in South Florida for decades and enduring Andrew, a Cat 5 that slammed into the state, I have great empathy for the people of Texas and what they are going through.  Everyone goes into survival mode.  All efforts to assist should be appreciated.</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434683">bill landes</span>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434683" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>He defines humanitarian</p>
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                <span id="dsq-author-user-434694">whirlaway</span>
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        <div id="dsq-comment-body-434694" class="dsq-comment-body">
            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434694" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>I live in New Hampshire and our local TV news channel is doing a telethon for Red Cross that they are working with for donations  from 6am to 730pm and as soon as they opened the lines the phones were ringing off the hooks. I am sure many states will be helping as this is really a monumental disaster to deal with and will not be fixed quickly.</p>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434705" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Way to go Mack. May God bless you. This is how the world is supposed to work. The last shall be first and the first shall be last. Pay it forward.<br />
So proud that he is a horseman also.</p>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434723" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>McIngvale represents the best in compassion for others. He helps out whenever disaster, large or small, strikes. He loves this city and it shows. He goes out of his way to help people in need &amp; allay their fears. You can&#8217;t ask for more than that.</p>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434777" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Things like this do a lot to restore one&#8217;s faith in basic human decency. I&#8217;m lucky. Where I live, we seem to avoid most of the terrible weather extremes (at least, until global warming gets some worse!), but I remember enough of Hurrican Hazel &#8211; my introduction to North America at age 9 &#8211; and how it was in Toronto to appreciate how very important the simple generosity of one man is to people caught up in a disaster. Thanks you, Mack, on behalf of all those people who are warm and dry because of you.</p>
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            <div id="dsq-comment-message-434795" class="dsq-comment-message"><p>Nice story, but let&#8217;s not forget what Hammock Hal is doing for the displaced gulf residents &#8211; all Houston residents get free admission and stall privileges at The Ramrod. Not on the level of Mattress Mack, but noteworthy nevertheless.</p>
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