HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The one-story red brick home that used to sit near the intersection of Cheeves Drive and Caddo Road in northeast Houston brought Lloyd Nelms' family together for decades. It's the house where everyone gathered when his great-grandmother died in 1994. A year later, relatives from California, Minnesota, Illinois and Louisiana took over the neighborhood for a family reunion. When Nelms' parents died, it's the house he inherited and where he gathered every Sunday after church with his nieces and nephews. But as storm after storm kept wearing Nelms' home down, he said he decided to apply for the city's Minor Critical Emergency Home Repair Program in 2016. As he waited for help, Hurricane Harvey hit in August 2017.