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<p class="body-text">My grandmother is going to be fine.<br></p><p class="body-text">On Sunday morning, when my grandma heard from a neighbor whose house had already taken in 11 inches of water, she had just spent her second night at my parents’ high-rise. She was safe, and as she told my sister by phone that day, she had a nice hot dog lunch with my family.</p><p class="body-text">By Sunday afternoon, knowing her house had undoubtedly flooded, my parents had found her an apartment to lease in their building. It’s true that my parents are mega-planners who would be the types to jump on something like this, but they’d also been there before. Just over two years ago, over Memorial Day weekend 2015, their own house in Houston flooded. They were on a plane on their way back from a vacation when it happened, and they returned home to find, among other things, furniture that had floated to different rooms of the house, a refrigerator lying horizontally, wet, slushy carpets, and cabinets that were already peeling. They knew it would take a major renovation to move back in after so much damage, including lifting the house higher off the ground, and there was no guarantee that, even after that, such a natural disaster wouldn’t strike again.</p><p class="body-text">Thank god they moved.</p><p class="body-text">One of the areas you keep seeing in pictures – <a class="body-link" href="http://abc13.com/boat-ride-reveals-flood-devastation-in-meyerland-area/2350175/">Meyerland</a> – is their former neighborhood. Always flood-prone, it was just one of the parts of a city of more than 6 million people devastated by the rain of the past few days. It was where my dad’s parents lived as well, before their house also flooded in 2015. (They were already planning to move before that flood but not quite ready to put the house on the market.)</p><p class="body-text">When it happened to my parents, I spoke to my mom by phone as she walked through the house and absorbed what had occurred. “It’s just stuff,” she kept saying, her voice breaking until she abruptly told me she had to talk to me later. “It’s just stuff.”</p><div class="breaker-ad article-breaker-ad standard-article-breaker-ad mobile-breaker-ad">
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<p class="body-text">And it was. <a class="body-link" href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-Police-officer-drowns-in-Harvey-12145510.php">At least 15 people have died</a> in the latest storm, and <a class="body-link" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/08/28/heartbreak-texas-harvey-drive-30-000-shelters-fema-says/607224001/">more than 30,000 will need shelters</a>. The recovery is expected to take years, <a class="body-link" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/27/federal-emergency-officials-preparing-years-recovery-efforts-states-hittexas-and-other-harvey-target/606036001/">according to FEMA</a>. (<a class="body-link" href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a12106484/how-to-help-hurricane-harvey-victims-texas/">Here are ways you can help</a>.)</p><p class="body-text">It is important to acknowledge the relative nature of the losses inflicted by the storm. It is also hard not to be heartbroken for everyone, even those who, like my grandma, will be ultimately be fine. My sister and I live in New York so, like many of our friends who have moved away from our hometown, we’ve followed developments mostly through social media and through a flurry of texts with those on the ground. A close friend who spent a year and a half remodeling her dream home for her family had four feet of water inside. She and her husband had to be taken by boat to meet their kids who were staying with her in-laws. Another family evacuated to Dallas before the storm but could see via an internal camera that the water had filled their living room.</p><p class="body-text">Yesterday, ignoring the requests from my sister and me asking them to please stay off the road, my parents drove to my grandma’s house to survey the damage. In the home, which my grandparents moved into in 1957, the year before my mom was born, the water had receded, but a line on the wall indicated it had reached almost two feet inside the house. Furniture had fallen over, cabinets had buckled, drawers were stuck shut, and it smelled.</p><p class="body-text">In the living room, though, was a small glass table that held a pair of candlesticks, a few other decorative pieces, and a framed picture of her four granddaughters.</p><p class="body-text">“The stuff was on that glass table?? Or you put it there?” I wrote when my dad sent us pictures.</p><p class="body-text">“It was there,” he responded.</p><p class="body-text">Later, my mom told me my grandmother had been fixated on that photo. She couldn’t stop talking about it and how upset she would be if anything happened to it. That and a vase with a photo of each of us on its four sides, which also stood untouched.</p><p class="body-text">It’s just stuff, of course. And yet as we rightfully focus on people’s immediate needs (food, shelter, clothing), we should also remember their emotional ones. People across the city are watching the homes in which they built or intended to build their lives, the sites of so many memories, vanish before their eyes. Let’s help them all stay #HoustonStrong.</p><p class="body-text"><strong>Follow Lori on <a class="body-link" href="https://twitter.com/LoriFradkin">Twitter.</a></strong></p>


			


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