Houston, Texas (KTRK) – It’s been five years since Hurricane Harvey made landfall, and many Kingwood residents are still recovering.
The area alone saw about 40 inches of rain in 2017 when the storm hit and was hit with heavy rain from Tropical Storm Imelda two years later.
“I don’t think people who are untouched can understand the grief and impact of chaos,” said Kingwood resident Nancy Ackley.
Another Kingwood resident, Siberina Sanders, described, “I mean, totally devastated. Gone are the culture and the memories. They can’t be recovered.”
“It’s something you see on TV,” Bill Ackley said. “You see it happening somewhere else and you say, ‘Oh, those poor people.'”
The images are still too vivid to shake for many.
Those who have experienced it do not always want to be reminded of it.
Jennifer Garza explained, “I try not to think about it because we’re all over it. We don’t want to.” “But, it’s hard not to do it. There are still things that are downtime that you love,” I remember being there. “You only remember the destruction. You can’t get past it when you drive in certain places.”
It’s something we’ll always remember because I feel like it kind of shaped who we are. “It shows that we can get through whatever’s ahead of us,” said Marshall Schaeffer.
“It completely changed my sense of security,” Ackley added. “I’m very optimistic, so my optimism has tempered and not waned, but I think it has tempered.”
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