The Magazine of The Sierra Club
Hurricane Harvey Has Devastated Rockport, Texas: A Photo Slideshow
Residents return to find homes, businesses devastated. | Photos by Joseph Rushmore
Brenda Sanchez carries her daughter, Kamylah Sanchez, toward their home, which they think will be a total loss. They live about a mile north of the waterfront; their house sustained heavy damage due to debris and falling trees. She and her family have lived here for 17 years. "This is the worst I've ever seen" she said.
Power lines down and flooding, looking west down Highway 35 into Rockport, Texas, on August 28.
Looking into the bedroom of a destroyed RV along the waterfront.
John Lee evacuated to Houston before the storm and returned on Sunday expecting to find his home destroyed. When he arrived, he found his home barely damaged even though the street just over from his was completely destroyed.
A destroyed boat hanger at a marina.
Stuffed animals and destroyed RV neighborhoods along the waterfront.
Destroyed and damaged homes.
A wrecked RV sits on the side of Highway 188 about fives miles northwest of Rockport.
Joseph Rushmore is a freelance photographer living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His work, specializing in environmental justice and conservation, includes field reporting from Standing Rock in North Dakota and the Diamond Pipeline in Oklahoma. When news broke that Hurricane Harvey was barreling toward the Gulf of Mexico, he drove to South Texas to document the aftermath.
These photographs clarify the total devastation that Hurricane Harvey has wrought in Rockport, Texas.
Below, a photograph of what Rockport looked like before the Hurricane hit.
—Sierra
Photo by the Stiles Agency