Well, it’s 20 minutes to 7 all
this week with the marking the
5th anniversary of Hurricane
Harvey on this day in 2017,
Harvey made landfall in
Rockport.
>> In the days that follow
Houston and make history with
the first ever emergency
shelter that allowed evacuees
and their pets to safely ride
out the storm together.
>> It’s hard to believe as of
August 20 feet, 5 years since
Hurricane Harvey.
>> 5 years since the storm
ravaged south and southeast
Texas as Harvey stalled out
over Houston, Mayor Turner said
he knew there was the potential
for people not to evacuate if
they had to leave their pets
behind. It’s what happened
during Katrina. And for many,
it came with deadly
consequences. Those pictures
were very good at it with us.
>> For during Hurricane Harvey,
we knew that we need to move a
lot of people into the job.
Joe Brown.
>> On the night of August 27th
the George R Brown Open to
people and their pets. There
were don’t trucks arriving with
people holding on. And Sully
Shuttlesworth executive
director with Friends for Life
got the call at 10:00PM from
the city to help organize and
run would be the nation’s first
ever cohabitating shelter.
We’re on the phone almost all
night calling our friends.
We need about.
>> 10,000 pounds of food.
We need 150 candles. She didn’t
know then they be there 18 days
sheltering 1500 pets alongside
their owners. Doctor, Katie, I
was one of the first
veterinarians to volunteer
Mayor Turner.
>> Had decided that George R
Brown is going to let animals.
And and I was like I’m going.
She just literally raped her
arm down the supply shelves in
her pharmacy and rake them into
these giant Rubbermaid tubs
loaded them in their van and
away the all volunteer team
would triage nearly 700 animals
in the first 24 hours alone.
>> That included help from the
late Doctor Stevens. My telly,
who in addition to treating
animals and reassuring families
made sure the precious
veterinary meds they had on
hand were preserved.
>> And so he rolls up this
giant.
Beverage cooler that belongs to
G R B. And how did you get
that? Weiss took it. I needed
it. He was that kind of guy.
They provided mostly
preventative care, including
mandatory vaccines as they came
into the grb.
>> And there was 0 outbreak
of disease. We had
no distemper.
>> And I can’t I can’t tell
you how significant that is a
long process, especially the
first couple of days because so
many people are coming in.
But it was a very organized
quiet process and people are
so thankful it was an
unprecedented storm met by an
unprecedented response.
>> We want it.
>> A shelter that didn’t feel
like it.
People had a band and
everything. And in some cases,
people did lose everything.
But the very fact that they
had there with just make them
feel a lot better. France ally
stepped up in a major way.
I’ll be forever grateful to
them.
>> Countless that in areas and
vet techs were calling the
volunteer during that nearly
3 week. Stay just a true
collaborative, incredible
effort by everyone involved.
Not one animal was ever
separated from its owner
throughout Harvey at the grb.
They prove with this model that
you can safely shelter people
and pets together. And now this
is the standard that is being
used internationally, such as
it’s incredible feat. You think
every with every storm we learn
something has right. Yeah.
That’s a big what a save so
much for how many years people
were getting separated from
their family members.
>> And you think back even to
Hurricane Ike, they wouldn’t
you couldn’t go together.
It was like if you went to the
shelters and out for allowing
point, it’s a it’s hard,
terrible that the reunification
rates were low. But it’s it’s
it’s worse that people actually
dying in their homes because I
said I’m not evacuate and I can
take my thoughts. That can take
Mike Catt and that’s what we
saw in Katrina. And they learn
from that and implemented this
amazing evacuation planet year.
Besa, thank you to the mayor.
Think it just it was part of
that as well from a judge.
Emmet and friends for life and
all of the text, the
technicians and the
veterinarians across Houston
and they said they got calls
from across the country and
around the world from people
wanted to come in and help.
Yeah. Yeah, right. Could start
to think you want to show you
this because there’s a lot of
people who weren’t here for
Hurricane Harvey 5 years ago.
So here’s a word were Thursday,
August 24th. You have that
category one hurricane in the
Gulf of Mexico. It rapidly
intensified into a Category
4 and then hit land. Here is
the problem. It stalled.
So we always remained on the
dirty side of this and the rain
just fell. It continued to
fall. It kept falling all the
way up through August. 29th
finally on the THIRTIETH.
>> Is when it finally pushed