As Houston Looks to Recover, Small Towns Now Bear the Brunt - New York Times
| New York Times | As Houston Looks to Recover, Small Towns Now Bear the Brunt New York Times NEWTON, Tex. — For the streets of Newton, a small town on the Texas side of the Louisiana state line, to become impassable, “the flood would have to be biblical,” Kristen Rogers was told when she peeked into the sheriff's office looking for guidance. Residents warned to 'get out or die' as Harvey unleashes new waves of punishing rains and flooding Harvey now tropical depression, but catastrophic flooding continues -- live updates Grim reality in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey: More dead |