Viral image of submerged care home resident prompts Hurricane Harvey rescue
McIntosh shared an image taken at La Vita Bella care home in Galveston County on Sunday, asking people to retweet to raise awareness of the urgent issue. Several residents and one cat can be seen in the image, sitting in waist-high water.
La vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson Texas is almost underwater with nursing home patients pic.twitter.com/oCNkrgoRZY
— Timothy J. McIntosh (@DividendsMGR) August 27, 2017
Speaking to The Daily News he said the image was sent directly to him by Trudy Lampson, his mother-in-law and owner of the home. Two hours after his original post McIntosh tweeted that the coast guard were en route with the residents “the number 1 priority of all current rescue attempts.”
“RESCUED!!” he tweeted shortly after, thanking emergency services for their assistance.
Dickinson emergency management coordinator David Popoff confirmed the rescue of 18 people from the care home, telling The Daily News “We were air-lifting grandmothers and grandfathers.”
Hurricane Harvey has caused extensive damage along the coast of Texas since making landfall on Friday. Authorities have urged Texans to evacuate coastal areas, comparing the Hurricane to Katrina, which devastated parts of Louisiana in 2005.
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