IN contributes to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts

The donations were among several pledged by teams and athletes to aid victims of flooding in Houston, including a $50,000 pledge made by Rockets point guard Chris Paul on Monday to Texans defensive end J.J.

Houston police chief Art Acevedo said he was anxious the toll would climb once the rains stop, waters recede and recovery efforts begin.

Chance and Rowdy Ward are more than cowboys after Harvey – now they’re heroes, too. At least 10,000 people have been rescued from their homes.

Numerous emergency-relief organizations are now working to bring aid to the millions of people affected by Harvey’s storm waters, the worst that Texas has ever seen.

“This will be the worst natural disaster in American history”, he said.

“The Katrina situation is one that ever since then, we know how to deal with rain, we know how to deal with floods”, Edwards told CNN on Tuesday.

Over the last few days, Harvey has dropped more than 20 inches of rain on parts of Southwest Louisiana.

“This recovery is going to be frustrating”, Long said in a message of assurance to Texas residents, adding, “We’re going to be here with you”.

Houston’s mayor, Sylvester Turner, said at a news conference that the city’s current focus “will continue to be on rescue”, and not on damage assessment or recovery.

When he suggested that some volunteers take a break from relief efforts to sleep, they told him, “we can’t sleep until these people are in their homes”, Khan explains, breaking into tears.

A reservoir overflowed near downtown Houston and a levee broke about 40 miles from there Tuesday. The funds, Abbott said in a released statement, will go toward removing debris, assisting in cleanup efforts and repairing roads, signs and traffic lights, among other things. “We must come together and collectively help rebuild the aspects of our community members lives that were damaged or lost”.

How much rain has fallen? The mother is the latest person to be killed in the flooding and devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey.

With the water still high in places and many hard-hit areas still inaccessible, those numbers seemed certain to increase. Greg Abbott and the state to provide resources and support.

An official of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) coordinating federal Harvey relief said Tuesday evening that the agency is getting ready to open NRG Stadium as Houston’s next major shelter.