Full Coverage: Harvey blasts southeast Texas with drenching rain and deadly flooding

Unable to help with hurricane relief efforts in person, Scott Jones did the next best thing he could think of — he gripped his Nintendo 64 video game controller and began playing, his fingers jumping across the game pad.

The front doors to the Lake Arthur Place nursing home were locked when Ben Husser and his team of volunteer rescuers arrived on boats.

They idled the afternoon away, stationed behind a barricade of half-inch plywood that kept the boat wake from rolling through their front door.

President Trump on Wednesday reached a deal with Democratic leaders of Congress to avert an economy-shaking fiscal crisis at the end of the month, a sudden move that caught Republican leaders off guard and severely undercut their legislative strategy.

HOUSTON — “Do you think we can get pho?” my daughter asked.

Dulce Puente, 27, didn’t have much time to worry about DACA Tuesday — she was busy cleaning out the home she shares with her husband and two sons, ages 5 and 3, which flooded with 4 feet of water during Hurricane Harvey.

When Hurricane Harvey flooded Nikki Fields’ house last week, she knew she did not want to abandon her home of 16 years.

Storm-tossed Texans pressed ahead Sunday with door-to-door searches for frail and elderly survivors, and accelerated an exodus from evacuation centers where some had sheltered in the wake of the most powerful hurricane to strike the continental U.S. in more than a decade.

The Bible has plenty to say about dangerous waters.

The road was chest-high in water, forcing the two men to slog across lawns that sloped up to brick homes.

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September holds a lot of potential for the Houston Astros.

A week after Hurricane Harvey lashed Texas with record rainfall, President Trump returned to the Lone Star State, as storm survivors began to return to their neighborhoods and stark divisions between those who lost everything to the floodwaters and those who escaped relatively unscathed were on display.

The big-rig truck was full of cats: Theo, who had a bit of a sneeze.

For the tens of thousands of people displaced by surging floodwaters in Texas, the path to recovery will test them physically, mentally and financially.

When volunteers from Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA’s youth group arrived to aid hurricane victims this week, they were welcomed by a cross-section of Texans, some of whom recognized them by name.

Tropical Storm Harvey, which destroyed thousands of homes and businesses across southeastern Texas, is now estimated to be one of the costliest disasters in American history, with damages that could exceed $100 billion.

The HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter skimmed a few hundred feet over the trees, patrolling for targets.

As some Houston residents Friday faced the heartache of evacuating their homes again due to water expected from reservoir releases, parts of Texas south of the city were bracing for potentially deadly flooding from overflowing rivers.

With Hurricane Harvey barreling toward his house in Corpus Christi and his family waiting it out in San Antonio, the young man’s mother made a comment that will stick with him.

Between the shutdown of oil refineries and chemical plants, impaired roads and ports, and widespread damage to homes, businesses and cars, the economic toll from Hurricane Harvey is now being estimated as the second-costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, trailing only the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Adults chatted next to the bowling balls as kids ran around the video game arcade.

With the weakened remnants of former Hurricane Harvey delivering drenching inland rainfall and yet more flooding Thursday, Houston and the vast area already hammered by the massive storm grappled with fresh perils as the waters began to recede, leaving behind a stew of toxic muck.

People kept pulling up to the Rowdy Maui gift shop here, whipping out their cameras and doing something that felt so good in this town that was in Hurricane Harvey’s cross-hairs when it first slammed into Texas at its most powerful.

Los Angeles Times staff photographer Robert Gauthier talks about the small moments of humanity in the midst of Harvey.

Rams players Michael Brockers and Malcolm Brown began drives to aid victims of Hurricane Harvey, and the organization is joining the effort, the Rams announced Thursday.

The woman’s body, slight and petite, was revealed as floodwaters receded, washed up against the green metal fence surrounding her apartment complex.

The pounding rains of Hurricane Harvey washed over the conduits, cooling towers, ethylene crackers and other esoteric equipment of the nation’s largest complex of chemical plants and petroleum refineries, leaving behind small lakes of brown, foul-smelling water whose contents are a mystery.

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People form a human chain to rescue a woman in labor. Two cowboys free a trapped horse.

In no other place in America would there be a traffic jam like this.

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There are some truly astonishing photos coming out of the flooding in Houston.

UCLA announced Wednesday that fans will be able to support Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross via text message during the Bruins’ season opener against Texas A&M on Sunday at the Rose Bowl.

The biggest rainstorm in U.S. mainland history made a second landfall on the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, cutting a devastating path across southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana — even as the sun began to emerge in Houston and some residents returned to their waterlogged homes.

While climate change did not cause Hurricane Harvey, it could explain the intensity of this tropical cyclone as well as other catastrophic storms that have hit the United States in recent years, experts say.

The nation’s biggest oil refinery shut down Wednesday morning as Tropical Storm Harvey continued to hammer the core of the U.S. industry that turns crude oil into gasoline.

Rescuers who spotted a child’s bag floating in East Texas floodwaters near Interstate 10 on Tuesday afternoon soon made a grim discovery: a 3-year-old girl clinging to the lifeless body of her mother.

Victims were arriving empty-handed: soaked, scraped and in search of missing relatives after narrowly escaping death.

Thursday night’s preseason football game between Houston and Dallas has been canceled so Texans players can return home to their families and help with the relief effort following Hurricane Harvey, according to media reports.

Twelve years to the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeastern Louisiana, residents of New Orleans braced themselves Tuesday as Tropical Storm Harvey threatened to unleash its fury on the city.

Houston was still dry when DaMarcus Beasley got on a plane for New Jersey where he would join the U.S. national team.

City officials in Houston imposed an overnight curfew to guard against opportunistic crimes as Tropical Storm Harvey continued to deluge southeast Texas on Tuesday, breaking the record for the most extreme rainfall on the U.S. mainland.

Swollen with days of record rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey, a 70-year-old dam overflowed and a levee leaked Tuesday, sending water coursing into nearby neighborhoods in Houston and a southwestern suburb.

The tropical storm unleashing its fury across Texas is bringing possibly unprecedented amounts of rain — flooding homes, stranding motorists and sending people fleeing for safety.

Something unusual happened to national television news this week. News.

Roshanda Harris and her family had climbed to the roof of her two-story townhouse in east Houston, calling 911 for rescue and waiting for help.

It’s hard to explain the stupefying vastness of the flooding in Texas, the nature of the calamity named Tropical Storm Harvey, until you actually try to drive somewhere in it.

Tropical Storm Harvey, a Category 4 hurricane at its peak, continues to drench the Gulf Coast.

As President Trump arrived in Texas on Tuesday to witness the damage from Tropical Storm Harvey, he was greeted in Corpus Christi by a microcosm of a divided nation: a mix of well-wishers and protesters, both thrilled and furious he was here.

The parallels between Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Katrina are stark.

President Trump pledged his “full support” Monday to the tens of thousands of Americans displaced by the epic hurricane and flooding that has devastated parts of coastal Texas and Louisiana, warning that recovery from Harvey will be a “long and difficult road.”

Houston is built on what amounts to a massive flood plain, pitted against the tempestuous Gulf of Mexico and routinely hammered by the biggest rainstorms in the nation.

President Trump on Tuesday assured Texans slammed by Tropical Storm Harvey that “we are here to take care of you” and promised a “better than ever before” relief effort, as he visited the state while rescuers continued to pull people from submerged homes.

Gary Smith traveled about 100 miles east to the Houston area Monday with his 21-year-old twin sons, a truck and a boat in tow to help rescue those stranded by Tropical Storm Harvey.

Heeding orders not to evacuate but instead to shelter in place, hundreds of Houston residents found themselves trapped in their homes Monday as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rose around them.

An unprecedented amount of rain has fallen on the Houston area in the last few days, causing what’s likely the worst flooding event that the nation’s sixth-largest metropolitan area has ever experienced — even worse than 2001’s Tropical Storm Allison.

When it comes to politics and policy, Democratic California and Republican Texas often find themselves on opposite sides.

Tropical Storm Harvey continued to pummel southeast Texas on Monday, leaving at least nine people dead and vast swaths of the nation’s fourth-largest city unrecognizable as murky brown water submerged highways, houses, shopping plazas and entire neighborhoods.

They had less than 24 hours. By Tuesday morning, their neighborhood would be under water.

In response to what is expected to rank among one of the most devastating hurricanes to strike the United States, the Red Cross has launched one of its largest hurricane relief efforts in years.

Since Hurricane Harvey reached land in Texas, the ensuing flooding has forced the delay or cancellation of more than 12,000 flights across the U.S., mostly in hardest-hit Houston and nearby airports.

A Houston area bookstore that emerged from Hurricane Harvey relatively unscathed is opening its doors to storm-battered southeast Texans who need a place to unwind.

Dozens of firefighters across Southern California have been deployed to Texas to help with search and rescue efforts after Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Harvey crept toward the Texas coast late Thursday, threatening torrential rains and punishing winds in what could be the first major hurricane to hit the United States in 12 years.