Hurricane coming, what are you doing?
Here, I share a video with you. It was taken by my classmate, Lin Zhang, at downtown Houston last Sunday.
From last Saturday, a devastating Hurricane, Harvey, attacked Corpus Christi, Texas. City Houston was not survived. That’s the worst one in Texas history: heavy rain, high water on the road, and everywhere flooding. The gas stations run out gasoline. Schools, companies, businesses and even hospitals had to shut down due to heavy flooding. The rescue center director said this may be the worst one he has met.
In that moment, my son was working at a hospital. The basement started flooding. He was evacuated and only one team will stay in the hospital for 4 days maximum. Next day, he found that his apartment was surrounding by flooding. Lucky, we delivered some foods to his home before the hurricane coming. Now, he was told to not go to work. He can take a break and enjoy those foods.
Before the hurricane coming, we prepared foods, water and filled in gas. That day, bottle water almost sold out. We found a lot of vehicles on the long line at all gas stations in our area. Some stations soon run out gas.
When facing the devastating Hurricane, what are you thinking? Are you thinking about saving lives or making money? There are two gas stations in our neighborhood. When facing the ton of vehicles on the line for filling in gasoline, one was keeping his gas price as low as usual $1.96 until running out gas. Unfortunately, another one took a chance to jump the gas price from $1.96 to $2.09.
During the hurricane, some businesses are take advantage to help people who need. For example, a furniture owner opened his stores to victims as shelters. His slogan is “We are Texans. We help each other. “ For another example, our neighborhood HEB supermarket keeps opening several hours everyday, even though the trucks, which deliver the foods, can still not able to reach the store.
Some Houston residents would like to give a hand to flooding victims. For example, people who own personal boats and clearance vehicles drove to high water area to rescue thevictims stuck at home by flooding.
Now, It is still raining, sometimes light, sometimes heavy and sometimes downpour. Water has not gone. Some companies and schools still have to be closed.
As Houston residents, we are thinking how can we do something for this city, for others and especially those, who lost their home.
We salute those heroes and are proud of those volunteers. We also shame of whom taking the opportunity to make big money during this hard time.
Wish everyone stay home, keep dry and be safe!
