Crowdsource Rescue News Today

An urgent call for volunteers was made for seniors living at a complex without power.

When things are at their worst, our neighbors are at their best. From individuals who drove around the neighborhood with a chainsaw to dismantle the fallen trees for a stranger,

Houston Heights Tower residents got good news Sunday after nearly three full days of living without electricity. The power came back on before noon.

About 230 residents who live at the Houston Heights Tower, an independent senior living facility, are without power days after a destructive storm hit Houston.

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April is National Volunteer Month and this is National Volunteer Week, which is an important opportunity to highlight the significant decline in volunteering in this country, along with the multitude of benefits that giving back brings to those who lend their time, talent, and/or resources to those in need.

A power outage at a Houston water plant caused low water pressure across the city. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said he believes the water is safe, but is waiting on confirmation from the state.

"Driving conditions are impossible if you were to go out there right now. There's debris falling from buildings, trees are coming down," said Paul Middendorf, Director of Crowdsource Rescue, a non-profit that came into existence after Hurricane Harvey.

A group of volunteers from Houston who were brought together by Hurricane Harvey are on the ground in Florida to help hurricane victims.

In 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain in parts of the Houston area, which is equivalent to about a trillion gallons of water.