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<p>Sunday evening, <a href="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/08/jj-watt-hurricane-harvey-houston-floods-recovery-effort-texans-donate-video-nfl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.J. Watt tweeted a video and link</a> to help raise money for those affected by Tropical Storm Harvey. He knew the damage to Houston was going to be catastrophic and wanted to do something to help right away.</p>
<p>Within two hours, people helped him reach his initial $200,000 goal. Not even 48 hours later, the Texans defensive end has helped raise <a href="https://www.youcaring.com/victimsofhurricaneharvey-915053" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than $1.5 million and counting</a>. Harvey is <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2017/08/29/officials-homes-could-inundated-month/105076578/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">displacing millions</a> and destroying the nation&#8217;s fourth-largest city.</p>
<p>The Texans are stuck in Dallas as <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2017/08/29/where-harvey-now-where-go-next/611456001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the storm shows no signs of slowing down</a>, and Watt told The Weather Channel on Tuesday that has left him feeling helpless. But it also inspired him to fund raise in the first place.</p>
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<p>When he spoke with The Weather Channel, the fundraiser&#8217;s total was just more than $1.25 million. He said:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;You feel a little bit helpless. You know, we’ve got guys here who are seeing their families back home who have young kids, who have wives, and they can’t get back there and it’s a helpless feeling. So I wanted to do whatever we possibly could, and I knew that I wanted to get out in front of it quick. In a situation like this, you want to start raising the money as quickly as you can because I know that these recovery efforts are going to be so massive.</p>
<p>&#8220;So I put it out there, and we were hoping for $200,000. We reached that in two hours, and now we’re over $1.25 million and climbing. So the people are unbelievable, and I think the biggest thing I just how many people have come together in a time of need. It’s truly a spectacle to watch.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">$1.5 MILLION!</p>
<p>New Goal: $2 Million<a href="https://t.co/SR6DmnNbyM">https://t.co/SR6DmnNbyM</a> <a href="https://t.co/sII5OB3seg">pic.twitter.com/sII5OB3seg</a></p>
<p>&mdash; JJ Watt (@JJWatt) <a href="https://twitter.com/JJWatt/status/902562078304727044">August 29, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Watt continued to explain how he&#8217;s planning to distribute the money raised. He said he&#8217;s going to &#8220;take it directly to the people&#8221; in Houston.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I’m going to use all that money to buy water, to buy cleaning supplies, to buy towels, to buy clothes. We’re taking donations and basically what we’re trying to do right now is set up trucks. We’re going to get semi-trucks loaded with all these supplies, we’re going to take it directly into the people, and we’re going to hand it out.</p></blockquote>
<p>As for the Texans-Cowboys game scheduled for Thursday? The game was originally scheduled to be played in Houston at NRG Stadium but <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/texans/2017/08/28/texans-preseason-game-moved-houston-arlington-hurricane-harvey-flood/609561001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been relocated to AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington</a>.</p>
<p>Watt said the game is still on as far as he knows, but if it&#8217;s going to happen, he has a condition.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think there’s bigger things than football going on at the moment, but if they do play the game, I sure hope that there’s a very, very large fundraiser involved.&#8221;</p></blockquote>

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