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										<p>A valiant plea to help seniors stuck in rising floodwaters in a nursing home <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/3698981/hurricane-harvey-2-dead-sheriff-death-toll-could-rise/">caused by Hurricane Harvey </a>was answered on Sunday.</p><p>Timothy J. McIntosh issued the plea on Twitter on Sunday morning, sharing a picture of the seniors waist-deep in water, with the message: &#8220;La vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson Texas is almost underwater with nursing home patients.&#8221;</p><p><amp-twitter width="600" height="400" layout="responsive" data-tweetid="901805509950541825"></amp-twitter></p><p>David Popoff, the city’s emergency management co-ordinator told the <a href="http://www.galvnews.com/news/free/article_e1ffff8e-435d-5c78-ab46-57d6bc7dc6a5.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=user-share"><em>Galveston County Daily News</em> </a>on Sunday afternoon that 15 seniors were rescued from the home.</p><p>“We were airlifting grandmothers and grandfathers,” Popoff said.</p>			<section>
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			<p>McIntosh received the picture from his mother-in-law who owns the home.</p><p><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/3698981/hurricane-harvey-2-dead-sheriff-death-toll-could-rise/">Hurricane Harvey causing catastrophic flooding in Houston</a></strong></p><p>Popoff said rescues in Dickinson are still ongoing.</p><p>The remnants of Hurricane Harvey continue to wreak havoc in areas in Texas, with the United States&#8217; fourth-largest city, Houston, being battered by heavy rains.</p>			<amp-iframe class="story-img-link-wrapper story-vid" width="560" height="316" layout="responsive" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox" src="https://liveapi.globalnews.ca/datasrc/amp/amp-video-frame.php?player=globalnews&#038;id=3695936">			
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		<p>Average rainfall totals will end up around 40 inches (1,016 millimetres) for Houston, weather service meteorologist Patrick Burke said.</p><p><span class="gnca-article-story-txt gn-speakable-description"><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/3698822/hurricane-harvey-rockport-texas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Hurricane Harvey devastates small town of Rockport, Texas </a></strong></span></p><p>Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said authorities had received more than 2,000 calls for help, with more coming in.</p>		<div class="story-ad align-middle">
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