Submitted photoWhen the Harder family returned to their home in Beaumont, Texas after Hurricane Harvey, their possessions were destroyed or in disarray after five feet of water entered the house.
The Harder family lives in Beaumont, Texas. When they evacuated their home as Hurricane Harvey approached in late August, they knew their house would be damaged, but they didn’t expect to lose virtually every possession except for the clothes and food they packed into their two cars before driving off to see a friend.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“We just assumed that if we did get some water, we would maybe get two feet or so, so we put everything up high on the beds,” Jessica Harder said.
By Aug. 30, however, flash flooding had ripped through Beaumont, and a neighbor who had entered the Harders’ neighborhood on jetski sent them pictures of their house. The worst had happened.
“[Water] was covering the garage door completely,” Jessica said.
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