Hurricane Harvey

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    BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI
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    Residents of the Meyerland area of Houston walk down Interstate 610 seeking help.
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    REUTERS
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    A Texas National Guard soldier transports a woman from her porch to a military truck in the Houston suburb of Bellaire. His convoy was traveling to a fire station on Sunday afternoon and wound up rescuing 53 people along the way.
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    BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI
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    Rain falls on Texas and US flags in Texas City, Texas.
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    Joe Raedle
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    Hurricane Harvey destroyed most of Steve Culver’s home in Rockport, Texas when it came ashore Friday night. Culver's dog Otis comforted him as he recounted the story to photojournalist Joe Raedle the next day. Culver is confined to a wheelchair, having lost his leg to diabetes.
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    BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI
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    Water surrounds gravestones at a cemetery in Pearland, a suburb just south of Houston. Many cemeteries in the region were flooded by the rains.
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    Scott Olson
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    Rescuers transport evacuees in a flat bottom boat through a flooded neighborhood of Houston.
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    Charlie Riedel
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    A man floats down a freeway near downtown Houston on an inner tube moments after helping the driver of a submerged semi truck reach safety. “My understanding was the fellow in the tube was just down there messing around,” says photographer Charlie Riedel.
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    Erich Schlegel
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    Larry Koser Jr. calls his wife while searching for important papers and heirlooms inside his father's home. The Bear Creek neighborhood of Houston flooded after water was released from the nearby Addicks Reservoir.
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    REUTERS
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    An elderly woman and her poodle ride an air mattress above the flood waters on Scarsdale Boulevard in Houston.
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    Richard Carson
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    With stretches of Interstate 45 submerged by Harvey, some drivers simply abandoned their vehicles.
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    Joe Raedle
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    Rockport resident Aaron Tobias stands in what remains of his home in a neighborhood near the airport. Tobias's wife and children evacuated, but he stayed behind to ride out the storm.
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    Adrees Latif
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    A man crosses a flooded road after surveying the hurricane damage on his property in Rockport, a coastal town some 200 miles southwest of Houston.
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    Joe Raedle
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    Some people in Houston used jet skis to evacuate their neighborhoods.
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    MARK RALSTON
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    A plane sits in a damaged hangar at Aransas County Airport in Rockport, Texas.
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