A handout photo from the U.S. Coast Guard shows service members responding to search and rescue requests after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Houston. Other medical staff camped out at their hospitals for days, catching some sleep on cots between shifts. By midafternoon Monday boats had ferried 10 of the hospital’s 44 patients to waiting ambulances on drier land, Ms. Shoemaker said. Roads surrounding both Vintage and Sugar Land hospitals “have 8 feet of water,” said Michael Covert, senior vice president of Catholic Health Initiatives’ Texas operations. Flooding from the storm cut off vehicle access to the hospital’s main Houston campus Sunday morning but by Monday it was accessible.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 28, 2017 23:52 UTC