USA: Houston tackles Texas-size cleanup

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�I�m not a very materialistic person. We can replace our clothes, our bed, our furniture. But family, you can�t replace.�

Ahmadiyya relief workers take a break to pray during Hurricane Harvey clean-up
(Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: The Courier-Tribune (TNS)
By Hailey Branson-Potts | September 4, 2017

In Kashmere Gardens, a historically black neighborhood and one of Houston�s poorest, the floodwaters have receded, but sorrow is on full display in the piles that line the street.

Heaps of soggy carpet padding. Chunks of drywall. Splintered boards, broken dressers and moldering mattresses.

A television. A teddy bear. Family photographs and a Bible, thick and leather-bound.

It smells musty. Sour, even.

Ten days after Hurricane Harvey blew into these people�s lives � and then lingered for days as a weakening storm, dumping epic rainfall on the nation�s fourth-largest city and its environs � the task of cleaning up is daunting. Much of it falls on people like Sonia Saldana and her family, and the strangers helping them.
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