Life In Tents And RVs Is The New Normal For Residents In Southeast Texas Towns Pummeled By Harvey
Of the 3,500 structures in Vidor, Texas – a town outside of Beaumont – more than 2,000 were flooded in some way by Harvey. The First United Methodist Church in Vidor served as a shelter for around 200 flooded out residents in the town of about 11,000 people. That includes the parsonage where Pastor John Mooney and his family live. Many of his church members' homes were also hit.
"The majority of them were actually rescued by their neighbor, by their fellow Vidorian folks with boats, so a lot of these folks, their homes were ruined, they were flooded, they were damaged,” Mooney says. “So a lot of them don't have anywhere to go."
Almost three months after Harvey, Mooney’s home is still uninhabitable. He, along with a handful of volunteers and some of his congregation, have been working on the house day by day, week by week.
“Honestly, I know in this neighborhood this house is a lot further along than your most houses,” Mooney says. “But there’s a lot of houses sitting around in shells more or less, because they don’t have the funds or the resources. There’s a lot to even get started.”
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