Story highlights About 300 evacuees and 60 National Guard troops are staying in storeGallery Furniture listed as an official shelter locationRichmond, Texas (CNN) David and Maria Parks sit for hours on a sofa, intently watching news footage of flooding in Houston. The Parks and about 300 other evacuees are taking refuge in the 160,000-square-foot showroom of the Gallery Furniture store just outside of Houston. Owner Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale is known throughout the Houston area not only for his zany commercials but his generosity. He tells CNN that he and his team took delivery trucks "that can get through the high water really easily" out to make rescues. "All day on Sunday we went around rescuing people out of high water stranded on overpasses.

Source: CNN August 30, 2017 08:52 UTC