Hurricane Beryl

There was the paralyzing 2021 freeze, when I sat in my own living room and watched my breath fog right in front of me from the cold.

Then the back-to-back wallops of the 2024 derecho and Hurricane Beryl a few weeks later.

Gallagher's research on what happens to people after events like those has found that we're tough, but not unbreakable.

People are resilient, but stress can catch up to you, he said.

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Kim and I, do you guys remember seeing on the news a couple weeks ago, Hurricane Beryl in Houston? Yes.

Kim and I were in the middle.

We flew into Houston for a mastermind with our mentor.

That can be deadly.

So, you know, we saw when Hurricane Beryl made landfall a couple years ago, about 3 million Texans lost their power for several days.

At least 36 people died there.

And that's, you know, across the state, people are struggling.

Carriacoua, Peat Mart Meeks, around 95% of the buildings were just completely demolished.

Jesse Foundation is a nonprofit organization here to help Grenada recover from Hurricane Beryl.

Once the emergency response is over, everybody kind of forgets about it.

It's going to take a certain type of sailor, the ones that go past Georgetown, Chicken Harbor.

What happens when visiting an island turns into a commitment to help the people who live there? Rich Whitlock first joined me on Salty Podcast number 60, and more recently, Rich, his friend Adir, and I happened to be in Fort Lauderdale at the same time.

Over pizza, they started telling me about the work they're doing in Grenada and its sister islands.

Adir is the founder of the Just Be Foundation, and she and Rich have been working with local communities, including areas still recovering from Hurricane Beryl.

That conversation led to today's episode.

I'm Andrew Schneider, News 88.7.

Applications are now open to Houston area residents to apply for financial aid for damage incurred during Hurricane Beryl and the Durecha Wind event from two years ago.

Houston City Council Member Tiffany Thomas says the applications may take up to eight weeks to process.

However, the city will get through them.

[upbeat music] A new program in the city of Houston is accepting applications from Houstonians whose homes were damaged two years ago by Hurricane Beryl or the derecho that preceded it.

I'm Craig Cohen.

Today on Houston Matters, details about the program.

First, though, it's been a mercifully quiet hurricane season so far this year.

Good thing, too, because many Houstonians are still dealing with the aftermath of a much more intense season two years ago.

That's when a devastating derecho and then Hurricane Beryl rolled through within weeks of one another.

Two years later, some homeowners are still waiting on repairs.

A new city program seeks to help them, backed by $45 million in federal disaster recovery funds.