Healing is coming slow for some in Center Point, but the kindness they've experienced since the Fourth of July has kept them in awe.
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“A nightmare. It was crazy,” Center Point resident Angela Simons said. “Pretty rough waiting for everybody to be found, just the destruction. I actually survived Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and this definitely reminded me a lot of that.”“I don’t really know what the emotion is,” Richards said. “I keep coming back to just a broken heart. It’s affected a lot of people in a lot of ways.”“She called said, ‘Come over,’ — that there was a man that was laying down there by the house,” Richards said. “I got all my friends and family down here and we started finding people.”“It’s five or six pieces up and down the river,” Richards said. “I just finished and it took me three years to finish.” Simons lives down the street, across the road from the river. Her landlord and friend lives along on the river where they saw things they never thought they would. “An actual girl out here stranded in the tree in front of his house that they had to call the water rescue for,” Simons said. “She was just clinging to a big ol’ cypress tree out there in the middle, screaming. They got her. It was hours, but they got her down.”Simons has eight chickens who all survived as floodwaters rose in their coop. “The water was all the way up here inside the chicken coop, but they had got up in there and everybody was good,” Simons said, showing the two levels of the coop.“His pen was crushed like a can. He swam to the fence and then he swam over the fence and we saw him walking down Sutherland Road,” Richards said, laughing. “He was mad. Yeah, but he was alive. Nothing a few powdered donuts can’t fix.”“There’s been a lot of people here helping water, food, cleanup,” Simons said.“One day, we had 150 down here,” Richards said. “I mean the kindness everybody was showing was just incredible.”The entire event and aftermath have allowed him to see through what he said has been a lot of division. “The most important thing is, we’re all in the family of man, and it shouldn’t take a disaster for people to care about each other,” Richards said.“We will recover,” Simons said. “It might take some time, but we’ll fully recover.”Courtney Friedman joined KSAT 12 News in August 2014 and now anchors the News at Noon weekdays, and reports important community stories. Her reporting often takes on issues including domestic violence, trafficking, foster care, homelessness and suicide awareness. She has an ongoing series called Loving in Fear.Adam Barraza is a photojournalist at KSAT 12 and an El Paso native. He interned at KVIA, the local ABC affiliate, while still in high school. He then moved to San Antonio and, after earning a degree from San Antonio College and the University of the Incarnate Word, started working in news. He’s also a diehard Dodgers fan and an avid sneakerhead.
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