08:29At least 18 people, including 15 residents, were rescued from a nursing home in Dickinson, after a photograph of the residents sitting in flooded lounge went viral, the Galveston County Daily News, reports. “We were air-lifting grandmothers and grandfathers,” Dickinson emergency management coordinator David Popoff told the paper.

Source: The Guardian August 28, 2017 00:14 UTC