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Senior Citizens Rescued From Nursing Home Amid Flooding

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“We were air-lifting grandmothers and grandfathers.”

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Fifteen senior citizens were rescued from a nursing home in Dickinson, Texas, after a photo showing some of them inundated in water was shared online. David Popoff, Dickinson’s emergency management coordinator, said officials were “air-lifting grandmothers and grandfathers” by helicopter. As Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and was eventually downgraded to a tropical storm, it has dumped more than 20 inches of rain so far on Houston and the surrounding areas.

Read it at Galveston County Daily News