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Portland poet and author David Biespiel’s new memoir reflects on the Jewish life in Texas he left behind Updated Dec 10, 2020; Posted Dec 10, 2020 David Biespiel in 2019, in his office at the former home of the Attic Institute, a writing center he founded.Amy Wang | The Oregonian/OregonLive Facebook Share As a child, David Biespiel knew who he was: a Jewish boy growing up in Meyerland, Houston’s Jewish enclave. One day, he’d be a rabbi. As Biespiel navigated his teens, however, he began questioning Judaism, hammering away ever more aggressively until he created irreparable cracks betw...

Sure we were in a house that did not flood. and meyerland, which is everyone to have flooding, the house we live in has never been flooded. we prepared the night before. i expected heavy rain. i expected water to maybe come up on the lawn. when my wife woke up 4:30 in the morning, and i was up already, we talked. discussed it. and she said brian, i think we have to get the girls out. i have three daughters. they had packed bags the night before just in case of emergency because we understand how bad it can get. so we decided to leave about ten minutes later. i looked out the door and the water...

I saw a young man pull out a large screen television from him home. he pointed to what was really a square of air with a bunch of charred of wood on the bottom, that was his house. he managed toal advantage that big screen television. are you having issues with cell service and getting emails and making phonems calls? reporter: we had a satellite phone with us. so it's a challenge in these storms to keep the team together and get a signal out. but we have a lot of different ways to try to get it up. we are trying to get you pictures of people in hard times in difficult circumstance. rick: we a...

Aftermath of this storm. it's dumped 9 trillion gallons of water. >> we are in the southwestern portion of meyerland. as we were preparing for our live shot we had fema pulling out into a boat shouting out into homes. >> x drove from utah. our initial assignment was to collect people who are medically sick and couldn't get out of the house. we checked the houses, now we are moving back toward the collection point where we'll pick up children or people who are sick. we were just asking, is there any sick or young children who need toer go. we are heading back in right now. >> what have you seen...

>> oh, no, i'm good. >> reporter: all right. you take care. and just one last time, the name of that complex where the people are and -- >> [inaudible] apartments and what's the other one -- >> village -- [inaudible] >> that's where i live. >> it's flooded. eric: you know, in dealing with the meyerland area -- >> reporter: just one hinge, my anchor back in new york has a quick question. eric: there wasn't an evacuation order but, you know, you've got bayous. these are the low-lying concrete areas in neighborhoods. could you ask perhaps why didn't the city evacuate 20, 30 blocks along the bayou...