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		<h1 class="entry-title">Innovation Takes on Hurricane Harvey</h1>
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						<span class="posted-on"><a href="http://culture.fool.com/2017/08/innovation-takes-on-hurricane-harvey/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2017-08-30T16:18:15+00:00">August 30, 2017</time><time class="updated" datetime="2017-08-30T16:20:08+00:00">August 30, 2017</time></a></span><span class="byline"><span class="sep"> | </span><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://culture.fool.com/author/tmflauriestreet/">tmflauriestreet</a></span></span>					</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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Once upon a time, The Motley Fool&#8217;s core values were selected by a committee of Fools working in roles across the business. These principles remain alive years later, continuing to &#8220;<a href="https://careers.fool.com/foolish/life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">breathe</a> throughout our culture and in each Fool&#8217;s daily actions.&#8221; The last few words ring especially true for Michele Hansen, a Foolish Product Manager who&#8217;s using innovation (one of our core values) to impact Hurricane Harvey&#8217;s relief efforts from afar.</p>
<p>Statistics show the grave effects of Hurricane Harvey, or what <a href="http://mashable.com/2017/08/29/harvey-houston-flood-by-the-numbers-worst-flood/#dvhf4KBeQOqm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could be</a> &#8220;the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.&#8221; Over five days, 49.32 inches of rain have hit Texas. Houston&#8217;s annual rain average is 49.77 inches, a number that puts the true devastation of Hurricane Harvey into perspective.</p>
<p>Michele and her husband, Mathias, a software engineer, were inspired to take action after seeing urgent messages with home addresses published on Twitter. In just 3 hours, the high-tech couple created a <a href="https://harvey.geocod.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> to display the hardest hit areas so <a href="http://wjla.com/news/local/va-couple-creates-map-making-website-to-help-locate-stranded-victims-in-hurricane-harvey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;&#8230;others</a> can see very clearly where people need to be rescued.&#8221; With its high-tech mapping capabilities, Michele and Mathias&#8217; tool is saving time for first responders and the Red Cross.</p>
<p><a href="https://harvey.geocod.io/"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-5720" src="http://culture.fool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MapResize-1024x516.jpg" alt="" width="764" height="385" srcset="http://culture.fool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MapResize-1024x516.jpg 1024w, http://culture.fool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MapResize-300x151.jpg 300w, http://culture.fool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MapResize-768x387.jpg 768w, http://culture.fool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MapResize.jpg 1259w" sizes="(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px" /></a></p>
<p>Even though success was found outside her &#8220;day job,&#8221; Fools are still praising Michele&#8217;s innovation. Multiple employees have expressed gratitude through our company&#8217;s internal reward tool, <a href="https://youearnedit.com/" target="_blank">YouEarnedIt</a>. <img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-5727" src="http://culture.fool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-30-at-11.36.52-AM-1024x459.png" alt="" width="764" height="342" srcset="http://culture.fool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-30-at-11.36.52-AM-1024x459.png 1024w, http://culture.fool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-30-at-11.36.52-AM-300x135.png 300w, http://culture.fool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-30-at-11.36.52-AM-768x344.png 768w, http://culture.fool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-08-30-at-11.36.52-AM.png 1186w" sizes="(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px" /><br />
This platform is also utilized from a Foolanthropy perspective, allowing employees to redeem &#8220;gold&#8221; they have received for donations to support the efforts of <a href="https://www.hands.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">All Hands Volunteers</a>. If you, too, would like to support this organization and its work responding to Hurricane Harvey, <strong>please visit The Motley Fool&#8217;s fundraising page <a href="https://give.hands.org/fundraiser/1076691" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></strong>.</p>
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