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<div class="meta smooth flex tablet"><div class="info"><div class="byline">By <span class="name">LINDSAY GLOOR</span><a class="eml" href="mailto:lgloor@shawmedia.com">Email</a><a class="twt" href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=@LindsayGloor" target="_blank">Follow</a></div><span class="timestamp posrel"><time datetime="2017-08-31 00:26:00">Aug. 31, 2017</time></span></div></div></header><div class="article-body flex desktop"><div class="components"><div class="tout-sdk tout-top-article"></div><input ID="leadphotochk" class="check none" type="checkbox"><div ID="leadphoto"><div class="owl-carousel owl-theme"><figure class="nomarg nopad"><img alt="Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
Marengo resident Rebecca Hickey walks luggage to her car Tuesday before her flight to Texas on Wednesday. The American Red Cross volunteer is traveling to Texas to aid victims of Tropical Storm Harvey. This is her first out-of-state mission." class="automarg" src="/_internal/cimg!0/8dhxwghxavn941ojmj1xrrxwbzsfkbb"><div class="flex byline"><div class="right"><label for="leadphotochk">Caption</label></div></div><figcaption class="toggle left">Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
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Marengo resident and American Red Cross volunteer Rebecca Hickey loads luggage in her van Tuesday before her flight to Texas on Wednesday. Hickey is traveling to Texas to aid victims of Tropical Storm Harvey. This is her first out-of-state mission.</figcaption></figure><figure class="nomarg nopad"><img alt="Rebecca LaPorta, a Houston resident, has not been home since she left for work Saturday morning. Tuesday night she tried to return but turned back because of the dangerous flooding that remained." class="automarg" src="/_internal/cimg!0/52p9pol1i477vvwmhldfjg9xlehknyv"><div class="flex byline"><cite class="left">Photo provided by Rebecca LaPorta</cite><div class="right"><label for="leadphotochk">Caption</label></div></div><figcaption class="toggle left">Rebecca LaPorta, a Houston resident, has not been home since she left for work Saturday morning. Tuesday night she tried to return but turned back because of the dangerous flooding that remained.</figcaption></figure><figure class="nomarg nopad"><img alt="Dave Schultz could only get around parts of his new hometown, Spring, Texas, using a kayak. Schultz said he moved to Texas in March from Harvard." class="automarg" src="/_internal/cimg!0/ihqgvk73haxigqaujeyeycq6td4l0d4"><div class="flex byline"><cite class="left">Photo provided by Dave Schultz</cite><div class="right"><label for="leadphotochk">Caption</label></div></div><figcaption class="toggle left">Dave Schultz could only get around parts of his new hometown, Spring, Texas, using a kayak. Schultz said he moved to Texas in March from Harvard.</figcaption></figure><figure class="nomarg nopad"><img alt="Flooding reached the tops of street signs in Spring, Texas, after Hurricane, and later Tropical Storm, Harvey bore down on southern Texas." class="automarg" src="/_internal/cimg!0/r89itkk1igdu0z9hophzc56uzr8ccbz"><div class="flex byline"><cite class="left">Photo provided by Dave Schultz</cite><div class="right"><label for="leadphotochk">Caption</label></div></div><figcaption class="toggle left">Flooding reached the tops of street signs in Spring, Texas, after Hurricane, and later Tropical Storm, Harvey bore down on southern Texas.</figcaption></figure><figure class="nomarg nopad"><img alt="AP photo
Malachia Medrano, 2, sleeps Tuesday at the George R. Brown Convention Center that has been set up as a shelter for evacuees escaping the floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston, Texas." class="automarg" src="/_internal/cimg!0/2qos1o4a05kilpq3elc3cwntl6w5c2f"><div class="flex byline"><cite class="left">AP photo</cite><div class="right"><label for="leadphotochk">Caption</label></div></div><figcaption class="toggle left">AP photo
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<p>Dave Schultz moved in March to Spring, Texas, north of Houston. He said his years in <a href="http://www.nwherald.com/harvard/">Harvard</a> did not prepare him for what he experienced when Hurricane, and later Tropical Storm, Harvey hit southern Texas.</p>
<p>“All these years we’ve always watched it like you are ... on TV,” Schultz said. “What you see on TV, it’s not exaggerated. It is as bad, if not worse, than what you are seeing.”</p>
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<p>Schultz said he and his wife were lucky. Their home was not one of the estimated 30,000 to 40,000 affected by Harvey’s powerful winds and feet of floodwater. </p>
<p>But they are stuck. Every major road surrounding their house is flooded.</p>
<p>“Boat, kayak – that’s the only way people are getting around here,” Schultz said. “Where Thursday they were driving, now they’re boating.”</p>
<p>Three graduates of <a href="http://nwherald.com/huntley">Huntley</a> High School were able to share their experiences throughout the storm from various locations around Houston, too.</p>
<p>Joe George of Huntley moved to an area northwest of the city a little more than two years ago to work for a local radio station. Meagan Flynn of <a href="http://nwherald.com/algonquin">Algonquin</a> moved near the center of Houston about the same time to write for the Houston Press. Rebecca LaPorta of Algonquin moved west of Houston in the summer of 2014 to pursue a career in meteorology – she now works in aviation.</p>
<p>“Being from McHenry County, the worst we have is snow and tornadoes, but they’re not that severe,” George said. “There’s this feeling of almost being kind of helpless.”</p>
<p>Flynn said the number of residents selflessly helping their neighbors has amazed her.</p>
<p>“People just out there helping strangers with their boats and their really high monster trucks,” Flynn said. “Anything people had to rescue people out in flooded streets, [they were] doing it.”</p>
<p>She said that, as a journalist, her job as been “sunup to sundown” trying to keep residents apprised of the dangers Harvey has posed.</p>
<p>The storm did not reach George’s and Flynn’s homes, but LaPorta said she was not sure what she would find when she was able to make her way back to her home.</p>
<p>LaPorta’s work put her and her co-workers up in a hotel – she tried to drive home Tuesday night but turned back when she realized the water was still too dangerous.</p>
<p>“It’s crazy to see places I go to all the time just ... everything I see is underwater,” LaPorta said. “Texas is not going to be the same after this.”</p>
<p>Some, such as American Red Cross Disaster Action Team volunteer Rebecca Hickey, who still lives in McHenry County, plan to travel to Houston to see the devastation for themselves. The trip will be Hickey’s first out-of-state relief mission with the Red Cross. She lives in <a href="http://nwherald.com/marengo">Marengo</a>.</p>
<p>“I’m expecting a lot of distraught and upset people, and very tired volunteer workers, Hickey said. “I think it’s the right thing to do. Your heart leads, and the rest will follow.”</p>
<p>Hickey said she joined the Red Cross because some of her friends were inside an apartment complex in Woodstock that burned down, and she experienced that same helpless feeling of which George spoke.</p>
<p>Kyle Mai of <a href="http://nwherald.com/wonderlake">Wonder Lake</a> is traveling to Texas with his waste disposal service in mid-September, and he said he’s prepared for the worst.</p>
<p>“It’s going to be wet and heavy. Long days. Hard work. But as a volunteer, I look past all of that,” Mai said. “I look at the end – cleaning up so the people of the Houston area can begin to rebuild and restart their lives that were put on hold by Harvey.”</p>
<p>How to help</p>
<p>The Better Business Bureau serving northern Illinois and Chicago wants residents to be wary of where they choose to <a href="http://www.nwherald.com/2017/08/29/heres-how-to-avoid-scams-when-donating-to-hurricane-harvey-relief-efforts/ayfmmgh/">send donations</a> in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The organization suggests donating to the <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-harvey?scode=RSG00000E017&#38;utm_campaign=Harvey&#38;gclid=Cj0KCQjwoZTNBRCWARIsAOMZHmHw8zzkGXGmtiFiD8WCHX6yDHflqYEZ7Dsb9D0mVnflFgZqzH0AKaAaAv8IEALw_wcB&#38;gclsrc=aw.ds&#38;dclid=CIXVtfnC_NUCFcgoaQodaukF0Q">Red Cross</a> or visiting <a href="http://give.org/">give.org</a> to discover other reputable charities aiding Harvey’s thousands of victims.</p>
<p>To donate $10 to the Red Cross via text, send a text message saying “REDCROSS” to the number 90999.</p>
<p>Philanthropy experts have said to hold off on material donations, as they are not yet needed.</p>
<p>• The Associated Press contributed to this story.</p>
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