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                    <h1 class="article-headline">Houston strong: A response to Hurricane Harvey from a native</h1>
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                        <p>Two weeks ago, as I boarded a plane to St. Louis from Houston, Tropical Storm Harvey was one of the furthest things from my mind. Now, for the time being, it has reshaped my reality. Growing up on the Gulf Coast, hurricane coverage is something that, most years, fades quickly into background noise by midsummer. Every year, you make your hurricane box and distantly watch the pixelated green and yellow blobs spiral off toward Mexico or into the Atlantic Ocean. By July, each projected “storm of the summer” is hardly a recognized household name. But then, Harvey hits. Andrew, Allison, Katrina, Ike, Sandy—their names are officially retired, but they linger as indelible marks on our collective consciousness and physical scars on our landscape.</p>
<p>My first week of school was different this year. Instead of buying books, focusing on classes or catching up with friends, I sat in bed hunched over my laptop, calling family friends, glued to local news and poring over elevation maps, trying to figure out what disaster would happen next. I sat waiting, making technical bargains with the universe that couldn’t be fulfilled and just trying to understand. Water is a peculiar form of home invader. You can’t fight it off or push it back. It cannot be reasoned with, and there’s no way to win. It is an inexorable force that creeps slowly up your porch and consumes all it touches. And all you can do is watch, search for higher ground and pray for the rain to stop. The floods do not discriminate, but they always manage to hit the most vulnerable the hardest anyway.</p>
<p><span class="pull-quote">As glad as I should have been to be out of Houston when Harvey hit, my only wish was to be there.</span> I felt like if I had been on the ground, there would’ve been something that I could do to help, some comfort to give. Instead I sat in my room, thousands of miles away, and watched the water creep up from afar. Every time my phone buzzed my stomach dropped because I knew it could be someone else I knew telling me they were now homeless or telling me their business was underwater. “It’s just stuff,” they’d say. “But we’ve pretty much lost everything.”</p>
<p>Trying to work my way back into my normal school mindset was difficult. The wet grip that Harvey had over my city had settled into my chest, and it seemed wrong to look for a distraction just because I wasn’t at home dealing with this mess like everyone else. The most common refrain that I would hear from classmates was, “Wow, I can’t even imagine.” And I laugh because a week ago, I couldn’t, either. Now, I know the aerial view of my neighborhood better full of water than without because of how many times I’ve seen it this week on the national news. I have watched flood waters take over highways, favorite bakeries and places from my childhood memories, their familiarity making them look paradoxically even more alien splashed across my screen.</p>
<p>However, with everything that has happened, I have felt helpless but not hopeless. Anyone who knows me knows how viciously proud and protective I am of my city. I’m always jumping to extol our diversity, sense of community and accomplishments, from excellent food, to the largest medical center in the world. I have never been more proud of our city than these past few weeks. As a child, I watched the destruction of Hurricane Katrina from afar. And from the survivors, I know that my shell-shocked response to this disaster is a privileged one. Even before the rain stopped, caravans full of strangers were on the way into the city, stretching for miles down now impassable roads. So many people have opened their hearts and their homes to our community. I feel so proud to know so many people I would now consider heroes and others who have been so strong in the face of absolute adversity.</p>
<p>The road ahead of us will be long and difficult (and probably still flooded for about the next six weeks). It’s hard to accept that we will have to find a new normal from now on, and that the city I left will not be the same when I return. But resilience and new beginnings are a key part of Houston’s story. As I mourn for my community and everyone touched by Harvey, and now Irma, I know that we will persevere. Although the rain has stopped, the end is not in sight. All of Texas still needs help as it recovers, as our hands finally stop shaking, as the water recedes and as we finally start to rebuild.</p>
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