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The water in the Gulf of Mexico is warm in the summer, but my girls will wade into it any time of the

year, even if it's freezing. That's one of the reasons why we come here. We like to visit Port-O-Ransis in August

right before their school starts, which is what we did in 2017. But we missed one of the worst times in the history of the Texas

Coast by one week.

NPR affiliate K-U-T show The Texas Standard reported on Hurricane Harvey.

I'm David Brown.

As cleanup crews converge on Houston just a bit to the east,

it's still very much rescue mode from the heart of the golden triangle.

This is the Texas Standard.

Becky Fogle did a story on the impact Hurricane Harvey had on foster kids.

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

says 1,200 foster children were safely relocated as a result of Hurricane

Harvey. Patrick Crimmins is a spokesperson for the Child Welfare Agency. He says they

began to prepare as soon as they knew the storm was coming.

One of the things about this that we were concerned about was that a lot of our residential capacity for

foster kids is in the Corpus Christi, South Texas, Houston area.

That includes residential treatment centers that provide in-house counseling and mental health services for foster kids.

Foster care will become pivotal to the story of Dorothy Simon's family.

Hurricane Harvey caused an incredible amount of damage in

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