Houston convention centre gives refuge to Harvey’s survivors
HOUSTON — Patricia Cain entered the George R. Brown Convention Center barefoot and carrying two oxygen tanks. The first was empty. The second was given to her by the Houston Fire Department after the Coast Guard rescued her from her flooded home.
She suffers from congestive heart failure, among other illnesses. Her son, William, and 9-year-old grandson were waiting for her inside. Both were barefoot as well.
“I live in a lake where there was once dry land,” William Cain said.
The Cains were among hundreds of people who arrived Sunday by boat, by bus, and by foot to Houston’s showcase convention centre downtown, transformed by volunteers with few hours’ notice into a shelter as Harvey ravaged Houston.