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<body><p>To Northampton native David Robinson, the courage of Houston rescue workers and the zeal of volunteers to get their neighbors out of harm’s way as flood waters rose during Hurricane Harvey made for more than a series of television images. It provided a source for hope in his adopted city. </p><p>“It boggles the mind what some of our first responders were capable of, and it is amazing what I am seeing around me in terms of volunteerism,” said Robinson, an at-large member of the Houston City Council.</p><p>“It is just going to be an incredibly sustained effort, but I think we’re up to it,” Robinson added.</p><p>Born at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, and the son of retired Smith College professor and Gazette columnist Don Robinson of Ashfield, David Robinson joined the Houston City Council in 2013.</p><p>“Its not a lucrative proposition, but it’s a job I relish,” Robinson said of serving 2.3 million constituents in a city that has a nearly 640-square-mile land mass.</p><p>In a phone interview this week, immediately after the City Council convened for just the second time since Hurricane Harvey inundated Houston in late August, Robinson said that while the city is not doing great, it is rebounding better than many who have only seen photos and videos of flooded streets and stranded residents might imagine.</p><p>He points to the lessons learned from previous hurricanes and tropical storms that allowed Houston’s hospitals to remain open in the recent deluge and for residents to have continued access to clean drinking water.</p><p>“It is an important point that potable water hasn't been contaminated. That’s one of the minor miracles,” Robinson said.</p><p>He said his staff worked around the clock for the first few days to meet the needs of constituents.</p><p>“We’re keenly aware of the suffering,” Robinson said.</p><p>An architect with his own practice, earning a bachelor’s degree in architecture at Yale in 1988 and a master’s degree in architecture from Rice University in 1993, Robinson has been involved in city affairs for many years, including being president of a neighborhood association.</p><p>“This is a huge, sprawling city, and I think Harvey was an equal opportunity destroyer in the fact that rich and poor, every shade of the rainbow, every part of the town, sustained some indignity,” Robinson said.</p><p>In recent days, Robinson has gotten to see first-hand the neighborhoods slammed by Harvey, including one where huge piles of dry wall, insulation and floorboards ripped from flooded homes have caused a nasty, rank odor.</p><p>Flood waters are still flowing through other neighborhoods.</p><p>“Remaining suffering is still present on the west side of town, near the main reservoirs,” Robinson said. There, Army Corps of Engineers and Federal Emergency Management Agency authorities are continuing to make decisions on how best to relieve pressure on these reservoirs.</p><p>Though some have criticized Mayor Sylvester Turner for not issuing a mandatory evacuation, or urging people to leave during the storm, Robinson said he is convinced that such an exodus would have been an “absolute nightmare” that may have increased the death toll. </p><p>While each death hard hit — from a police officer killed in responding to an emergency and two residents who died while rescuing others on a boat — Robinson said it is a “major miracle” that only about 70 people have lost their lives.</p><p>Robinson said returning to the City Council chambers on Wednesday was a positive day, even with a powerful mildewy and musty smell pervading the air there.</p><p>At each meeting, a different member has an opportunity to invite someone to say an invocation or blessing. Coincidentally, it was Robinson’s turn; he invited a a mother of three who lost her home and is a student from the University of St. Thomas near his home.</p><p>“She sang the most incredible version of Amazing Grace,” Robinson said.</p><p>Robinson said he is dismayed that city planners are facing criticism and “taking it on the chin,” as he puts it, for being a city without zoning. He said this is unfair, and that any city would struggle with 50 inches of rain in a short time. </p><p>Robinson said he has not personally been affected by the flood waters, living in the Montrose section, which he calls somewhat reminiscent of Northampton and in the 1960s and 1970s became part of the counterculture and center of the LGBT community.</p><p>Part of the appeal of living in the city, he said, is the “diversity that Houston is becoming more and more famous for.”</p><p>He fortified his own 1928 bungalow with a metal roof and 500-gallon water storage tank, and was able to wait out the storm with his teen daughter, Elissa. “My daughter and I got a little cabin fever,” Robinson said.</p><p>Near his home, traveling the Waugh Bridge over what is known as Buffalo Bayou, Robinson saw a raging torrent replace a normally small, slow-moving river.</p><p>As more hurricanes churn through the Atlantic Ocean, including Hurricane Irma that could deal devastation to Florida, Robinson said he will keep a close eye on these and hope that Houston is spared more trouble.</p><p>“We’re aware of what a second blow would do to us,” Robinson said.</p><p>Robinson said Houston has been a fast-moving and dynamic city and he argues that will remain the case, pointing to hosting February’s Super Bowl.</p><p>“As a New England Patriots fan, from the glory of the Super Bowl to devastation of Harvey, we will rise again.”</p><p>Scott Merzbach can be reached at smerzbach@gazettenet.com.</p></body><br/>

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