The storm hit, we lost our cars,
we lost everything.
Everything just collapsed.
I mean, it was just a horrible disaster.
This is the water line right here on the window.
You can see all the way.
I'm about 5'8" and that's about what it is, isn't it?
I mean, we had water come up to here.
I was walking like this at one point, you know?
We did not want Harvey to kill this parade.
We want this parade to go on!
(cheers)
So thank you all!
There are so many people that
do not understand that even a year later
we have homes that are still shells.
We have people that are still living in hotels.
We have people living in fear every time it rains.
We don't want people to feel forgotten.
(light music)
Tell us where we're headed.
We are headed to BJ Services, which is a
warehouse facility that has graciously donated
that space to an organization called Heart For Texas.
We'll go there sometimes to get,
they have all kinds of stuff,
Sheetrock, they've given us tile and flooring,
bathtubs, faucets, just different things at different times.
I've got kind of a list Okay.
of things, I don't know what you have,
what you don't have.
Penny is an angel.
Angels are messengers from God and that's what Penny is,
and I have come to the conclusion that
there is nothing that she wouldn't do
to help somebody that she loves,
and she loves everybody.
I don't have any magic skills,
I just can love people well, I can show up.
I think that's the bigger picture.
Can I take a sink and faucet? Bathtub?
Yes.
Yes.
For smaller bathrooms, there's these.
To be at the place of the need of lighting is a victory.
The win, yeah.
Yeah that's a win, because for so long
it seemed like we weren't gonna get to the finishes.
I think one of the things Penny and I
have in common was just that gnawing question
of how do we respond, what do we do?
We may not be able to fix it, but we gotta keep showing up.
Our main focus is to get people back into their homes.
And people that are living in their homes
to make that house feel more like a home again.
You can go a little further,
that's good, that's good.
10 days into this, I got this message
and she said, "Hey, a friend of mine
lives over in Bear Creek, and I just wondered
if there's any way you could go by
and check on their home."
So we get over to this neighborhood,
there was so much water still on their street,
10 days later, "Is there any way you could help them?
They're gonna need help."
And so I was like, "Yes, we will help you."
I thought it would be something we would do for a few days
and it was almost 11 months now.
It's 15702, but it's the last one on the left.
Anybody under 20, ha, yeah right.
So if anybody's under 20 and they wanna help,
ya'll can go with us to Hillary's.
He's got electrical stuff to hang fans and lights.
Is that Allie?
Yeah. Okay.
Sarah is a volunteer just like me, who showed up,
and decided that she was in this for the long haul.
There's a light in here I do have to grab out.
You want to carry it out, and then we'll carry this?
Okay, set it here.
See, and that's just insane to me.
It's a hard reminder, I mean,
if you think about it, that was only a year ago.
I'm gonna go over to another house next door
that's been abandoned.
The bank evidently bought this house.
There's mold everywhere.
There's a lot of people who left and didn't come back.
There's a lot of people who sold to investors
pennies on the dollar.
I think some of it was being very overwhelmed,
not knowing where help was gonna come from.
Oh my gosh! I know.
Doesn't it look good? It looks so good.
[Woman In Navy Shirt] Hi, Baby Girl. I miss you.
I miss you too.
[Woman In Navy Shirt] For this, while every beam
in this house has been signed by people,
and the philosophy behind this, in my mind for the family,
is that, God forbid we ever flood again,
when the walls come down we know we're not alone.
Look at your cabinet, this looks so good!
Isn't it awesome? I love it!
Karen's kitchen was destroyed,
and this is the first house that we really did
on this street.
We came in and saw it and I was like,
I don't even know how you say this to the people.
The washer and dryers, they all just flipped over.
The washer and dryer was in front of the back door.
Everything just collapsed.
We really didn't want to come back in.
I forced my boyfriend to come back in.
He came here before I did,
and he said, "I can't ever go back."
He said, "You don't understand, it's so, so bad."
I said, there will be people that will help.
I know there will be.
Hey, Ms. Sue.
I was lucky that I didn't get electrocuted
the first day when the water came in.
You create waves, you know, waves go and beat the wall.
It's such a different experience.
Heart for Texas donated all of these cabinets,
and we just had to buy one small piece that he can paint,
but, Ms. Sue is a painter, and so that was cool.
After the flood, we came in and we started taking
all the debris.
I had lots of artwork, tools, magazines, art books,
everything was thrown on the street,
and then I found this kitchen cabinet.
I put it on there and I said,
"Wow, I wish I had some paint."
I went in, I found some of my own
paints and brushes in there.
So I stood here and painted this scene.
All my photographs have become
even more beautiful than before.
Each one is like an abstract painting.
I call this 'Harvey Effect'.
Even something that we call disaster
is part of creation.
I saw Ms. Penny coming by, I didn't know her.
We met and she's been here
on the street helping people like me
and, I don't know, without her,
probably I would have no walls.
As powerful as Harvey was,
I could see people power
as strong as Harvey.
The full force, they came rescued us,
and they helped us up to this point,
and God bless America.
This is what we should show the world
that this is what we do.
In the midst of what is a fast,
overwhelming water, imagine yourself out in the ocean,
and then there's this buoy of these sweet women,
offering hugs and saying, "Okay, nothing is too big,
what can we do?"
My husband said it best, "They turned our neighborhood
into a community."
The biggest change for us was this calmness
in the midst of despair to know we're gonna be okay.
It's gonna be okay.
(cheering and clapping)
And all of our great volunteers,
just thank everyone for coming out,
it's been a tough year for this neighborhood,
but to see all of you guys being here today
is truly something special.
Thanks for coming out.
Thank you, Bear Creek Village.
(cheering)
It was super good to see people come out.
I think, when it started raining
it was a little bit emotional for some of us,
but just to be with them and to see them living life again
was also very hopeful for us.
That's what our effort is all about,
is for them to keep on.
One of the bigger stories of this for me
has been the value of presence, you know,
and just someone coming back, and I wanted them
to not forget, and not feel like we have forgotten them.
A lot of people ask us about
when does this end, or when do you walk away,
when is it enough?
It's not like that.
You don't walk away.
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