Coffee and Cots as Houston Houses Thousands in a Convention Center - The New York Times
HOUSTON — The rescued are almost always wet when they arrive — slick, shuffling and staggering after hours in the rain. They are met with blankets and a security check, dry clothes and green cots. And then there is a feeling of relief that, for the moment, they have left the floodwaters behind.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, hundreds of Texans were wrapped in blankets in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. They were sprawled on cots inside the gymnasium of the shuttered Abraham Kazen Middle School in San Antonio.