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                                    <p>One Pizza Hut restaurant in Sugarland, Texas, found a solution to the <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article169667992.html" target="_blank" title="">unprecedented flooding</a> caused by Harvey: <a href="https://www.click2houston.com/news/houston-flood/pizza-by-kayak-sugar-land-pizza-hut-delivers-in-floodwaters" target="_blank" title="">kayaks</a>, according to KPRC.</p>
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                
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                                    <p>"We packed 120 pizzas into kayaks and took them out to people in their homes," Habib told The Houston Chronicle. "The people in the houses didn't expect us to come. It was so nice to see their smiles after so much gloom." </p>
                                    
                                        
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                                    <p>She gathered a crew, placed pizzas onto kayaks and delivered hot pizzas to families in the Village of Oak Lake neighborhood in Sugarland, KPRC reported.</p>
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                        
    
    
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                                    <p>Sometimes the crew of 6 faced water as high as their chest. They had to paddle with the pizzas in their lap in areas where flooding was too severe, according to The Houston Chronicle.</p>
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                
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