When Hurricane Harvey's torrential rains hammered down, no community was arguably hit harder and deeper than Dickinson.
In a matter of hours, a full 85 percent of Dickinson's homes and businesses were inundated with water. Calls for rescue soon followed. Hundreds of them. Police Chief Ron Morales remembers clearly the outcries.
Short on rescue crafts and surrounded by rising water, with no way in or out, Morales put out the call for help. What happened next, is the stuff of legends. Rescue personnel drive through an intersection covered with floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey in Dickinson, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. Estimates for damages caused by Hurricane Harvey are climbing with the storm poised to regain strengthMorales is referring to a flotilla of private boats manned by Texans and rescuers with the Cajun Navy.
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