Driving into the unknown, Hogan Courrier and his 16-year-old daughter are hoping the worst of Tropical Storm Harvey is behind them.
Their car shaking in the wind, Courrier flees a decimated Texas. Roads are now rivers, homes are destroyed and relief is nowhere in sight.
Before it was a tropical storm, Harvey was, at its most powerful, a category-four hurricane
“Pretty weird going through a hurricane. We've never been through a hurricane before and it was pretty scary at times. They were getting storm surges in like three feet of water,” says Courrier.
Courrier is from Wasaga Beach. While fleeing Harvey, he encountered others who were forced from their homes.
“We spent a lot of time with people in the hotel who were displaced out from the coastline and a lot of them don’t even have houses to go back to,” says Courrier.
In Houston, Carl Prior and his wife Sharon have taken in friends who were ordered to evacuate.
“We've heard it's an 800 year storm, so who knows. Nobody's had a chance for a dress rehearsal,” says Prior.
Living in constant fear, they're doing everything they can to stay positive and remain hopeful the storm will pass.
“We've been here for 12 years, never seen anything like it. Thankfully we're not flooding.”
