🌿 Environment 2d ago · Laura Mallonee

One year after the Texas floods, home feels further away than ever

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One year after the Texas floods, home feels further away than ever
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When rain falls on the RVs that line Big Sandy Creek, it sounds like gunfire. The harder it pours, the louder it gets. But what bothers Ashlee Willis most is how the wind makes them sway. It is so unsettling that she cowers in her camper’s narrow hallway with her two frightened cats, a Taylor Swift blanket stuffed into their carrier in case they have to flee. 



It always reminds her of that terrible night in July, when the creek ran so high and so fast that the mobile home Willis lived in

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