Rescuers answered hundreds of calls for help as floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey began to fill second-story homes. Rescuers answered hundreds of calls for help as floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey began to fill second-story homes. “This will be a devastating disaster, probably the worst disaster the state’s seen,” Long told The Washington Post on Sunday in a telephone interview from FEMA headquarters in Washington. President Trump signed a federal disaster declaration for the state, and Long said that freed him to unify efforts and send in federal resources. We used to look at citizens as disaster victims, now they’re looked at as what we call disaster survivors,” he said.

Source: Washington Post August 27, 2017 17:37 UTC