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This article was updated on Wednesday. A large and complicated rescue operation is underway in Texas, and so far, there’s no end in sight. Harvey’s catastrophic flooding will continue in and around Houston and Beaumont/Port Arthur and into southwest Louisiana for the rest of the week, the National Hurricane Center says. If you’re outside the affected area, here are options to help.

No one has a clear idea of how many people across southeast Texas are missing, how many have evacuated, or how many are trapped in their waterlogged homes. If you live in an area affected by the storm and you are in a safe place, we would like to hear about what is happening in your area, and about your experience in dealing with federal, state and local agencies. If you are in a safe place, please email us at hurricane@nytimes.com. A reporter or editor from The Times may contact you to hear more abou

HOUSTON — Ports along the Gulf of Mexico are closed to fuel barges. Part of the biggest pipeline between Texas and New York has stopped flowing. Refineries and gas stations are flooded.

WASHINGTON — President Trump has pledged to donate $1 million from his personal fortune to storm victims in Texas and Louisiana. “He would like to join in the efforts that a lot of the people that we’ve seen across this country do,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Thursday during her daily briefing at the White House. Ms.

WASHINGTON — In swamping large swaths of Texas and Louisiana, Hurricane Harvey also forged a new reality for President Trump and the Republicans governing Washington. Gone are the confrontational talk of a government shutdown and the brinkmanship over the debt limit. Instead, both Mr.

Clinging to a tree branch in torrential rain and howling winds, Ruaridh Connellan fought against the ferocious current of Houston’s Greens Bayou. His was body weak and under water. Are we going to die, he asked over and over again to a colleague hugging the trunk of the tree. For 18 hours starting on Monday afternoon, the two journalists for The Daily Mail and another man gripped the only thing keeping them from being sucked into the raging river.

As Tropical Storm Harvey continues to deluge homes and sweep vehicles off roads in Texas and Louisiana, at least 38 deaths have been reported. Officials in affected counties are starting to learn the victims’ identities and piece together the circumstances around their deaths. Here are details on some of those who died. This article will be updated. Andrew Pasek, 25, was always bringing home stray animals.

HOUSTON — Antonio Armenta paid $45,000 for the little white house with the arched kitchen doorway by the train tracks in northeast Houston, where he is raising his children on construction-worker sweat in the blue-collar neighborhood of El Dorado-Oates Prairie.

Overwhelmed by the news since Harvey made landfall?

Bathe your kids at their accustomed times. Use the gas of wrecked cars to fuel your generator. Beware of taking too much time off from your job. The sight of a squirrel might help. Such are some of the storm recovery tips for the afflicted of southeast Texas from people in the calm of their own lives who have unfortunately been there, unfortunately done this.