It all seems too familiar – resilient winds, power outages, flooded streets, rising death tolls and an unforeseen end to it all. Hurricane Katrina was over a decade ago, Hurricane Sandy was only five years ago, and now we’re facing another natural disaster head on. Hurricane Harvey took havoc on the fourth largest city in the United States and turned Houston’s roads into raging rivers. Harvey inundated parts of the Houston area with more than 50 inches of rain, with at least a quarter of the land mass flooded. Governor Greg Abbott called the storm, “one of the largest disasters America has ever faced.” Emergency workers actively worked to rescue as many people and animals as possible. Hundreds of thousands of people filled Houston shelters with the hope to hear news about their lost loved ones and/or the state of their homes. But what made Harvey so powerful? We know with Sandy it was a perfect storm – the rare mix of a Category 2 storm with a fierce Arctic air coming from the North and a winter storm coming from the West hitting the most densely populated real estate in the country all during a full moon. With Harvey, scientists said it was fueled by a deadly combination of environmental factors – warm water in the Gulf of Mexico intensifying the rainfall and blocking drainage that pummeled coastal and inland areas. Many organizations, The Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, The Houston Food Bank, The Houston Humane Society, and more were started to help Houston victims. Even though the storm has passed, the devastation still lives. We encourage all to donate in anyway you can and help our neighbors in crisis.