And many of the folks are shocked from how the situation went from challenging to lifeordeath crisis. Perhaps, no more so than a nursing home just outside of houston. That was the first indication something was going wrong. And water started coming under the door. Within 10 to 15 minutes, it was waist deep. Within 10 to 15 minutes between enter and waistdeep water. And as the rain continues to fall and the floodwaters continue to rise, so, too, do the challenges emerging in the event already catastrophic by any measure. Not long ago, fema came out with a direst ma estimation that 30, people will spend today in shelters. More than 2,000 people have been rescued from the flooded homes thus far in the city of houston. Hundreds more in galveston. And in the devastation, and in the rising floodwaters, we are witnessing the worst of nature and the best of humanity. A lot of the boats saving people from hatheir homes are voluntee. And help is needed. Helping texas overcome this is going to be
Alton Town Twinning Association (ATTA) has just celebrated the silver anniversary of the start of the twinning relationship between Alton and Montecchio Maggiore in the Veneto region of northern Italy.