There is something quite surreal about witnessing history. It’s even more surreal to have to process and articulate the enormity of what you are seeing. That’s my job and Sunday, August 27th tested me.I began the weekend reporting on Hurricane Harvey’s landfall and subsequent pounding of the Texas coast. The storm spanned 280 miles and was basically parked on top of millions of people. What we didn’t know is exactly where it would turn and what impact that would have. Sunday, we learned it was Houston, and it would be devastating.Unprecedented, catastrophic, epic—we ran out of words to stress just how significant this storm would be.When my show ended, I walked to my car and I wept. I cried for the unknown—how much worse will this get; there’s still days of rain to come? I cried for the mother we connected live on air to a sheriff because she couldn’t get through to 911, and the water inside her home was waist-high and rising (her 2-year-old baby was floating on a mattress). I cried for the state of Texas that will be rebuilding for years and years to come. And I cried because I was exhausted of the tragedy and… Read full this story
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