In the days after Hurricane Harvey dropped more than 50 inches of rain on parts of the Houston area, Connie Boulware was rustling through her home in the hard-hit neighborhood of Kashmere Gardens.
Roughly four feet of water had blanketed her one-story duplex. And Boulware was quickly salvaging what she could of her sodden belongings.
Having lived in Houston for nearly two decades at the time Harvey hit, Boulware, now 57, was familiar with the wrath of Texas storms. She kept an emergency stash of water in her pantry and extra food to pass out from her front porch…