We were on the call every night monitoring this … all the missions and the stake presidents were on this call and there was some direction telling us what we were doing,” Ross said. I think that was this whole area all the way from San Antonio, over to the Florida Panhandle. “They call them bridge calls, where you have 65 stake presidents. When Hurricane Rita hit in 2005, Ross was a stake president and recalled a meeting he had to discuss evacuations before the storm arrived. Johnny Ross, a retired assistant school superintendent in Vidor and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shared some of the spiritual experiences he had during hurricanes. “Until it happens to you, I know it’s probably a selfish thing to say, you don’t realize what something (like Harvey can do),” Mathews said.
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The students spent their free time during summer break and on weekends during the school year helping others clean out their houses from the mess left behind by Harvey. Mathews eventually ended up living in the high school fieldhouse with many of the football players he coached. He was not able to live in his badly damaged house for an entire year, and his children could not stay with him. When Hurricane Harvey hit the southeast coast of Texas in 2017, Mathews’ life changed forever. Jeff Mathews coaches football at Vidor High School, about 95 miles east of Houston, Texas.
They interviewed people whose lives were changed by natural disasters, and this article reflects some of the lessons learned. (Hailey Deeds)Įditor’s note: In Spring Term 2022, journalism students and faculty from BYU traveled to Beaumont, Texas, to learn about the impact hurricanes have on a community. The area around Beaumont, Texas, still bears the scars of the impact of powerful hurricanes like Harvey and Rita.
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