We’d piled into various cars.
There were too many of us. We were headed to overpasses and intersections known for sheltering the homeless of northwest Houston.
The last week of torrential rains in Houston had brought out the mercy in many.
Strangely enough, part of this spirit of mercy and good will might be attributed to the media. For some reason, as flood waters rose, no one’s first instinct was to loot so that bad news couldn’t be flashed in graphic detail nationwide with every reporter who had ventured our way.
I’m not saying we didn’t have the potent