As the flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey began to recede, people in the Houston area were faced with the monumental task of cleaning their homes and businesses.
As the flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey began to recede, people in the Houston area were faced with the monumental task of cleaning their homes and businesses.
Houston Chronicle photographers fanned out across the region as people mopped up water, tore out carpet and picked up the pieces of their lives.
BEFORE AND AFTER: Remarkable aerial photos show Houston in Harvey’s wake
Our photographers captured moving moments of complete strangers banding together to clean out homes, businesses and roads across the Houston area in order to get some normalcy back into the community.
The gallery above shows the remarkable images of Houstonians gathering to clean up the Space City following the destruction of Harvey.
