Rescue efforts are under way in Houston, Texas after Hurricane Harvey came ashore Friday night, dropping as much as 25 centimeters of new rainfall around Houston overnight. The region has already seen more than 60 centimeters of rain in some places. VOA Spanish service reporter Celia Mendoza is there and snapped these photos.
Houston Rescue Effort
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Trestian Woodard, 7, finds welcoming arms at a gas station doubling as a rescue transfer point in north Houston, Texas, Aug. 27, 2017. National Guard and Aldine Fire & Rescue members collected people from the Greenbriar Colony neighborhood. (C. Mendoza/VO
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Rescuers assist flood victims out of a military transport vehicle at a gas station doubling as a transfer point in north Houston, Texas, Aug. 27, 2017. Retrieved from the Greenbriar Colony neighborhood, they’ll go on to a Red Cross shelter. (C. Mendoza/VO