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Much of the city of Dickinson is flooded as area bayous have swelled.</p><p>Timothy McIntosh, whose mother-in-law owns the nursing home, tweeted a photo of the nursing home, and asked for help.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">La vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson Texas is almost underwater with nursing home patients <a href="https://t.co/oCNkrgoRZY">pic.twitter.com/oCNkrgoRZY</a></p>&mdash; Timothy J. 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