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How Did You Fare After Hurricane Harvey?

People with less means were the ones who came out of this the worst. They had less resources to get out of this whole catastrophe intact. Caroline said she's on a fixed income. She brings in about 15 hundred dollars a month. Her repairs from the storm totaled more than three thousand dollars. You just don't have that kind of money in land around to pay that type of expense for per so for a while after the storm, the state didn't allow electric companies to cut people's power. There was this moratorium on cut offs. But by the time i talked to caroline, a few months after the black out, it had been lifted. So people in her situation, people

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