Vasquez, Staff photographer / Staff photographer) / The rebuilt Saltgrass Landing Apartments shown on Tuesday, Aug. Salt Grass Landing Apartment complex after Hurricane Harvey Saturday, Aug. Many tenants were displaced and never returned, but Brown stayed with a friend in Rockport and moved back into a two-bedroom apartment - bigger and nicer than her old one - when it was rebuilt. Some affordable housing options have been rebuilt following the storm, including Saltgrass Landing, a low-income apartment complex where Elizabeth Brown lives. “The majority of workers that left this area are still gone - and they’re never going to come back.” “They can’t afford to move back down here,” Billy said. Many never returned because the hurricane wiped out apartment complexes, exacerbating the city’s affordable housing shortage. The café lost nearly its entire kitchen staff when workers moved to bigger Texas cities following Harvey. They feel like they’re back on their feet, Billy said, although high prices are hurting the business and a workforce shortage has forced him to close on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The owners have since reopened JJ’s Café in a building next to Walmart. (Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer) Customers dine at JJ’s Cafe in Rockport on Monday, Aug. (Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer) Gary Billy got a fake fish tank to page homage to the original J.J.’s Cafe, which housed many exotic fish that all died when the roof collapsed during Harvey. Gary Billy got a fake fish tank to page homage to the original J.J.’s Cafe, which housed many exotic fish that all died when the roof collapsed during Harvey. Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer J.J.’s Cafe owners Shaoli and Gary Billy stand in their restaurant’s current location on Monday, Aug.
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Inside, everything was gone, including original artwork and a large tank full of tropical fish. Powerful winds ripped the new roof from the café and tossed it onto a nearby church. Vasquez, Staff / Houston ChronicleĪfter the hurricane, Billy and his wife returned to Rockport to find that they had lost their restaurant, RV park and home. The remnants of an RV block the westbound lane of Highway 188 as Hurricane Harvey rolled through the Central Gulf Coast Saturday, Aug. The storm ripped through homes, businesses and churches while water from Copano Bay surged onto the back side of the peninsula. Winds topped 130 mph and rain blew sideways, stripping leaves from trees and twisting telephone poles. Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer Rockport Harvey made landfall near Rockport at 10 p.m. Five years after Harvey made landfall in Texas, small towns are still in the midst of recovery. Burt Mills, Jr., talks about his experience with Harvey and the county’s recovery on Tuesday, Aug.
(We’re) trying to prepare to where we don’t have near the disaster that we had with Harvey.”Īransas County Judge C.H. “There’s going to be one - we just don’t know when. “The challenge is preparing for the next storm,” said Aransas County Judge C.H.
UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION: Texas said inland counties had lower disaster risk, yet awarded them huge share of $1B in Harvey aid In Port Arthur, near Louisiana, the largest mitigation projects await federal funding approvals before they can get off the ground. Homeowners there remain skeptical that the city’s mitigation efforts are enough to prevent other disasters. The Southeast Texas community of Dickinson has its challenges, too. The city also is facing an affordable housing shortage, a wave of ongoing construction projects and the lingering emotional toll from the disaster. That said, they still have more work to do to bring displaced residents back home and get their infrastructure ready for future storms. Now, residents and elected officials here say they are recovering from the devastation, mirroring other small towns affected by Harvey. The restaurant was among hundreds of buildings that were destroyed five years ago when Hurricane Harvey made landfall in this small Gulf Coast city.
A sign is the only remnant of the original location of J.J.’s Little Bay Cafe on Monday, Aug.
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