Read profiles of all of the Texans who died in Hurricane Harvey.

A beloved pastor and his wife swept away by a raging creek in Fort Bend County. An elderly man who died alone, trapped by rising waters in his west Houston home. Six members of the Saldivar family trying to escape the torrential rains. A dedicated police

VICTOR MANUEL ACEVEDO

Age: 67 Victor Acevedo adored his wife, Dianne, whom he met decades ago in a pool tournament. The Mexican immigrant had served in the U.S. Air Force and liked to fish. He used to take his four daughters to watch his beloved Oilers. After a series of ailments left Dianne bedridden and reliant on an oxygen tank, Acevedo retired from his fiber-optics job at AT&T, becoming her full-time caretaker. Acevedo became alarmed on Aug. 26 when water gushed up to Dianne’s bed in their South Houston home. He went to get his truck to take her to safety, but never made it back. Rescuers found his body days later, after they had come for Dianne. “He’s literally a hero,” said his daughter, Cheney Tamez. “He was 100 percent a family man.”

EFRAIN ANGEL NARANJO

Age: 26 Efrain Angel came to the U.S. almost four years ago for work. A native of the Guanajuato region of Mexico, he lived in Katy and worked as a landscaper and gardener. He was found Aug. 29 in a drainage ditch near Harris County Katy Park. One of 10 siblings, Efrain dreamed of owning a house one day, his mother said. Family members said he was serious, but friendly, and was passionate about la charreria, or Mexican rodeo.

SAMUEL LAWRENCE BURNS SR.

Age: 62 Samuel Burns’ body was found Aug. 27 in the 4900 block of Airline Drive in Houston. Witnesses said the Houston man collapsed in floodwaters. Relatives could not be reached for comment. Burns was believed to have been homeless for at least a decade.

TRAVIS CALLIHAN

Age: 45 Travis Callihan was a science geek who worked in information technology. He also liked to hunt, fish and scuba dive, his brother told the New York Times. He lived alone and kept to himself, Troy Callihan said. Travis’ life changed “dramatically,” however, after he broke his back in a boating accident, his brother said. Callihan drowned Aug. 28 after getting out of his vehicle and falling into floodwaters. A woman who answered the door at a residence listed for Troy Callihan said no one there wanted to be interviewed.

TOMAS CARREON JR.

Age: 25 Tomas Carreon Jr. and two friends drove more than 120 miles from Lufkin in East Texas during the storm with a borrowed boat, hoping to help rescue people stranded in the storm. A strong current slammed their boat into the southbound Interstate 45 frontage road bridge and it flipped, sending them all into Cypress Creek in the early hours of Aug. 30. Carreon’s body was recovered after someone called the sheriff’s office and said they saw a body from the I-45 bridge on Sept. 1. Carreon, a mechanic, leaves behind a wife, Stefany, and three young children. He loved spoiling them and coaching T-ball and had recently brought home a German shepherd puppy for them named Max. He was buried in Lufkin at a ceremony where his family and friends wore white, his favorite color, and released balloons into the sky.

ALONSO GUILLEN

Age: Alonso31 Guillen, a popular disc jockey in Lufkin, headed to Houston on Aug. 29 with three friends and a borrowed boat, hoping to help with rescue efforts. Guillen was steering the boat as it hit a strong current and slammed into the Interstate 45 southbound frontage road bridge. One man aboard the boat was rescued, but the bodies of the other two, Guillen and Tomas Carreon, were recovered from Cypress Creek after days of searching by friends and relatives. Guillen came to the U.S. as a teenager on a tourist visa and overstayed. He was a so-called Dreamer, a recipient of a temporary program that provided him with a work permit and protection from deportation. His mother, who was living in Piedras Negras, Mexico, was granted a temporary pass to attend his funeral in Lufkin. Moments before his coffin was lowered into the ground, his mother laid her hand on it and said: “Thank you for choosing me as your mother.”

CASSANDRA DILLSDAILEY

Age: 38 For two days, Wayne Dailey and other family members tried desperately to get an ambulance for Cassandra “Casey” Dills-Dailey, who was recovering from surgery at home. He called 911 on the afternoon of Aug. 27, as floodwaters reached the doorstep of their northeast Harris County home. The line was busy. He dialed more than two dozen times and finally was told that help was on the way for his wife, but no one showed up that day or the next. He eventually flagged down a boat of civilian volunteers on Aug. 29, and they took Casey to an airboat. She was then transferred to a dump truck to be carted out of the floodwaters, but she stopped breathing before they could reach a hospital. She died on Aug. 29 in a Humble emergency room. The medical examiner’s office said she died from a blood clot associated with her surgery and Cushing’s disease, a pituitary gland disorder she had also been fighting. “She was probably one of the sweetest, most loving people you’d know,” said Darlene Zavertnik, her motherin-law. “There’s just got to be a better way to get help to people in emergencies when it’s really life and death.” She is survived by her husband and sons, Luke, 14, and Ronnie, 10.

NOAH DELGADO

Age: 8 Noah Delgado suffered an asthma attack on Aug. 28, as heavy rains poured down. His mother told KTRKTV that Noah’s rescue inhaler was not working and that emergency responders did not arrive soon enough. Noah was taken first to the North Cypress Medical Center then airlifted to Texas Children’s HospitalWest Campus, where he remained in a coma and on life support for three days. Authorities said he was pronounced dead at the hospital on Aug. 30, days before his ninth birthday. Noah loved playing video games, watching scary movies, eating home-cooked meals and playing Pokemon, friends said. He had attended Lamkin Elementary School in Cy-Fair ISD and would have attended Ault Elementary this fall. His family could not be reached for comment.

JOSEPH DWAYNE DOWELL

Age: 43 Joseph Dowell had been in and out of jail for more than 20 years before getting a fresh start last October. The time he spent in the Freedom Project — a re-entry program at the Harris County Jail — helped him get a light sentence of five years’ probation for drug possession and a job with Houston’s Public Works Department. He went missing on Aug. 27 as he headed to work in the heavy rains. His body was found 11 days later in an area that had been flooded. “He was trying to get to work,” said Gwen Bossett, a jail counselor who had worked with him. “That’s the greatest thing we could hear.”

WILMA RATCLIFF ELLIS

Age: 73 Wilma Ellis was rescued twice, but she still couldn’t be saved from the floodwaters. When rescuers arrived on Aug. 28 with only one seat on a boat, family members put the nonspeaking Ellis on it, the Times-Picayune newspaper reported. She was taken to a local high school to await relatives, but the boat reportedly didn’t return for them. After apparently wandering away from the school later that day, she disappeared again, only to be found floating face down in floodwaters. She was revived, however, and was dropped off at a gas station, where a local businessman promised to look after her. She then disappeared again. Her body was found floating later the same day by a Coast Guard search-andrescue operation.

ROBERT ARTHUR HAINES

Age: 71 Robert Haines was wary of the weather. He had been watching the storm closely from his Memorial-area home, calling his son with updates. On the night of Aug. 27, however, he left two voice messages for his son, Kirby Haines, saying that 2 feet of water had risen inside his home. By the next morning, he couldn’t be reached by phone and the inundated neighborhood was inaccessible. A Houston Police Department dive team recovered his body in 4 feet of water in his home on Sept. 8. Haines, a twin, was raised on a farm in Alanson, Mich. He was a Vietnam veteran and grandfather who retired from his work as a financial adviser in 2011, his son said. Haines’ husband, Kyle Fredricks Haines, was not at home when the storms hit. By the time he got back, it was too late. “He was an outstanding man,” Fredricks Haines said. “I’m so glad that he was able to see gay marriage within his lifetime because we always talked about that.”

CHARLES RAY JAMES

Age: Charles65 Ray James, a self-employed contractor, died trying to reach his 90-year-old mother, Lucille James, during the storm. A friend had driven him as far as she could — about a mile and a half from his mother’s house. But when the waters started rising, he got out and continued on foot, determined to reach his mother. Instead, he was swept off his feet by the overflowing Halls Bayou in northeast Houston. After not hearing from her son for several days, his mother reached out to family, who alerted authorities. He was found Aug. 29 floating in high waters in the 7400 block of Claiborne. James, a native of Powhatan, La., who moved to Houston in 1971, is survived by his mother, two brothers, Jesse James and Ura Jackson; his twin sister, Linda Hicks; and a son, Sean James. His niece, Lillie Hicks, described him as an outspoken, outgoing character who could make conversation with anyone.

RUBEN CLIFFORD JORDAN

Age: 58 Ruben Clifford Jordan, a beloved track and football coach in Clear Creek ISD, had just retired in May but found ways to keep busy in the early months of his retirement by becoming president and director of the Friendswood Driving School. Police found his body Aug. 29 along a waterlogged roadway about a mile and a half north of his Friendswood home. Jordan was Clear Creek’s head track coach for 18 seasons and spent 34 years as a coach, much of that time as an assistant football coach. He grew up in Tyler and was a high school football teammate of Oilers great Earl Campbell in Tyler. James Smith, a Houstonian who spoke at Jordan’s funeral in

Tyler, said Jordan often would provide players with transportation if they needed a ride and would buy meals for students he feared would go hungry, according to the Tyler Morning Telegraph. “He has touched so many lives,” Smith said.

BENITO CAVAZOS JUAREZ

Age: 42 Benito Cavazos Juarez of Houston was found dead Aug. 29 face-down in a parking lot after floodwaters receded near the East Freeway. Friends said he came to Texas from Mexico as a young teen, and worked in an auto body shop. He had recently received a work permit and Social Security card and had an appointment the day after he drowned to begin the process of getting permanent residency, family members said at a memorial service. Friends remembered him as a happy-go-lucky guy who was always smiling and would give a friend his last dollar.

CALVIN ORAN MONTALBANO

Age: 54 Calvin Oran Montalbano, of Houston, was found dead Aug. 29, less than two miles from his home in a grassy area near the Eastex Freeway. He had drowned. Family members said they were too upset to be interviewed.

CATHY HARLING MONTGOMERY

Age: 71 Cathy Harling Montgomery was found drowned in her home in the 12600 block of Memorial in Houston on Sept. 7. She lived in The Pines condominiums, near Memorial City Mall and west of Piney Point Village. A fellow resident in her condominium complex said she had multiple sclerosis and lived alone, though a caregiver helped look after her. Montgomery’s friends or family could not be reached.

COLBY HENRY OSORNO

Age: 24 Colby Osorno was his mother’s boy. The single mother and her son, who stood 6-foot-4, were inseparable. He performed George Strait songs and gave giant bear hugs. He listened. He was her friend but also her pride, who had excelled as a member of the basketball team at Memorial High School. She came home to their apartment on Aug. 28 to find him asleep. The next morning, he was gone. Gloria Deanda-Osorno figured he had gone out with a friend. Then she worried. His last phone call was at 5:30 a.m. the following day. A tugboat found him three days later, floating 40 miles away in Greens Bayou near the Ship Channel. He worked as a petroleum inspector with his dad, Henry, and was planning to go to college. He wanted to help youths and had talked with his pastor at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church about opening drug-rehabilitation programs for those lacking insurance. “I have lost everything,” his mother said.

ANDREW PASEK

Age: 25 When rising floodwaters forced Andrew Pasek’s sister to hurriedly evacuate her apartment on Aug. 29, she and her fiance took their dog but lacked a carrier for their cat, a Maine Coon named d’Artagna. So her brother did what a good brother does: He went back to rescue the cat. Pasek, a lifelong animal lover, set off to the flooded Bear Creek Village subdivision in northwest Harris County but stepped on a faulty electrical wire. “Get out of here! Don’t touch me!” Andrew cried out to a friend who had come along. He later died. An Eagle Scout and graduate of Westchester Academy for International Studies in Spring Branch ISD, Pasek lived in northwest Houston and worked in the auto repair industry, said his mother, JoDell Pasek. His interest in cars was sparked in high school. His love for animals dated back to childhood. The youngest of four, Pasek had a bearded dragon that survived Hurricane Ike, his mother said. His parents still own a dog and a cat that Pasek persuaded them to adopt. He is survived by two of his three siblings and his parents, JoDell and Al Pasek.

JORGE RAUL PEREZ

Age: 33 GUSTAVO HERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ Age: 40 BENJAMIN VIZUET Age: 33 YAHIR RUBIO-VIZUET: Age unknown They lost their lives trying to rescue others during the worst of Harvey’s flooding, On Aug. 28, five men — including three brothers — set off in a 12-foot-long fishing boat on Greens Bayou in Houston to rescue residents of a nearby apartment complex that was flooding. They were accompanied by a reporter and photojournalist from Britain’s Daily Mail. After successfully rescuing two families, the group headed back toward a flooded bridge at Wallisville Road, but the strong current carried the boat toward a power line. “We were about 20 feet from the line and we could hear the transformers blow and see sparks flying,” Daily Mail reporter Alan Butterfield wrote in a firsthand account. “I was desperate to get away from the power lines so I jumped out of the boat and so did everyone else. I heard the boat crash into the lines, the noise was just awful. The boat was crackling and smoking.” Butterfield reported feeling the electrical current in the water. But the two journalists and volunteer rescuer Jose Vizuet survived, clinging to trees and branches until they were rescued. The next day, the Houston Fire Department found the bodies of Vizuet’s brother Yahir and their friend Jorge Perez. The bodies of Benjamin Vizuet, a married father of three, and Gustavo Hernandez Rodriguez were found on the banks of the bayou Aug. 31. Juan Jacquez, the brother-in-law of Benjamin Vizuet, said he had married his high school sweetheart. The couple had two sons and a daughter. Benjamin Vizuet and his brother had gone into the Jacquez family car dealership business, Jacquez said. The volunteer rescuers didn’t know the residents of the apartment complex but wanted to help after realizing that first responders were overwhelmed. “They did it because they saw a whole bunch of people who needed help that nobody was rescuing,” Jacquez said.

SGT. STEVE A. PEREZ

Age: Houston60 Police Sgt. Steve A. Perez’s wife warned him not to go into work on the morning of Aug. 27, as heavy rains from Hurricane Harvey created treacherous driving conditions. “I’ve got work to do,” the 34-year HPD veteran responded. He left home in the early morning darkness and spent two hours trying to get to his duty station in downtown Houston. When he couldn’t find a path in the downpour, he tried to get to the nearest station. Days shy of his 61st birthday, Perez died when he drove into an underpass near the Hardy Tollway and Beltway 8 and became trapped in high water. His body was recovered two days later in 14 feet of water. “Sgt. Perez lost his life because he tried to make it happen,” Mayor Sylvester Turner said. “He tried to get to his post.” Police Chief Art Acevedo hailed Perez as “a sweet, gentle public servant.” Perez, of Porter, had served in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves, rising to the rank of major, and had graduated from the FBI National Academy. At HPD, he worked a variety of assignments, including emergency communications, crime analysis, special operations, vehicular crimes and traffic enforcement. He is survived by his wife, Cheryl Perez, and two adult children, Maverick and Sabrina, along with other relatives.

BATOOL QASEM

Age: 76 Batool Qasem died Aug. 26 after driving into high water and leaving her vehicle on Warrenton Drive in Houston. She was found floating in floodwaters near her vehicle in the Buffalo Bayou area. A relative declined to provide additional information about her.

JILL RENICK

Age: 48 Jill Renick was a whiz at her job as a spa director at the Omni Houston Hotel, but it was her kindness and warmth that family and friends said they will remember. Renick’s body was found Sept. 7 in the ceiling of the basement of the Galleria-area hotel, near a set of elevators. She was last heard from at 5:40 a.m. Aug. 27, when she had called the front desk for help after apparently getting trapped in an elevator. The hotel was starting to flood and guests were being evacuated, and efforts to find her that morning were unsuccessful. A Tulsa, Okla.-area native, Renick graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma where she deepened a lifelong passion for fitness, said longtime friend Diana Dean. She worked in gyms, then spas, in Oklahoma, Dallas and South Padre Island before taking her position at the Omni. Renick had volunteered to stay at the Omni to help guests in anticipation of the coming storm and brought her beloved dog, Sweet Pea, to her fourthfloor room. It wasn’t out of character for Renick, a woman of faith who made friends easily and went out of her way to help others, Dean said. She was the kind of person who made family gatherings fun, added her nephew, Austin Miller, 40. “We are heartbroken,” said Renick’s older sister, Pam Eslinger, in a statement. “To know Jill is to have loved her.”

MARTIN SALAZAR

Age: 49 Martin Salazar’s family called police Aug. 29 to report that he had not returned from work. The Pasadena man had worked for the city of Pasadena for two decades at its golf course. His car was found the same day in a parking lot. On Aug. 30, police found his body in a retention pond in a ditch in the 5100 block of Preston Avenue near his home in Pasadena, authorities said. Investigators said it appeared he had tried to leave his car during the storm but was swept away by the raging waters.

GARY WAYNE SANCHEZ

Age: 58 Gary Sanchez was once a great car salesman and avid conversationalist, said Nicholas Sanchez, of Sacramento, Calif., who had been out of touch with his father for a long time. “I remember he loved baseball and was good at playing guitar,” his son said. A native of San Jose, Gary Sanchez had lived in Sacramento and other rural areas of central and northern California before moving to Texas. His sister, Risa Locke, of Watsonville, Calif., said he was outgoing, an eager student and a hard worker who began abusing alcohol after a divorce. She hadn’t heard from him in 13 years. “He never called me again after I said, ‘Call me when you get straight or you get better,’ ” she said. By the time his body was found floating in the Houston Ship Channel on Aug. 31, he had been living in homeless shelters in the Houston area for several years, law enforcement told his family.

AGNES STANLEY

Age: 89 Agnes Stanley, a retired nurse, spent her career caring for others and decades of her senior years teaching Houston’s smallest adventurers about nature. She was a longtime volunteer with Houston Audubon’s Docent Guild, which develops educational programs at the Edith Moore sanctuary in west Houston. She worked with the Titmouse Club, which introduces preschool children to birds and the environment. “She was devoted, and she loved that kids program,” said Helen Drummond, executive director of Houston Audubon. “She was fierce and determined. She was small in stature, but strong-willed and invincible.” Stanley was an operating-room nurse at Shriners Hospital for Children in Houston for 32 years, retiring in 1999. She also volunteered at a local Ronald McDonald House, and spent several years caring for her husband before his death in 2015. “She was always about others,” said her son, Robert Stanley. She was found Aug. 27 in her flooded one-story home near Brays Bayou in Houston.

ALEXANDER KWOKSUM SUNG

Age: 64 Alexander Sung was a hardworking craftsman who emigrated from China, opened a business in South Houston and built a multicultural family with a wife and three daughters. The repairman was discovered face down on Aug. 27 in his store, Accu Tyme, on College Avenue near Hobby Airport. Sung opened his store three decades ago as a watch and jewelry sales business but shifted to timepiece and grandfather-clock restorations. Sung married a woman from Honduras and embraced her daughter to ensure the girl’s smooth transition to America. “He was wonderful. He introduced me to the computer, hamburgers, pizza. I didn’t know English. He was so patient with me because I would get so frustrated in my classes at school,” Liana Contreras said. “He was always there for me.” Relatives last spoke to him before daybreak Aug. 27 as the water rose in the store. They called authorities to help him, but that assistance never came. An employee discovered Sung’s body that afternoon surrounded by his clocks. Sung, of South Houston is survived by his wife, Maria, as well as Contreras and two other daughters, Alicia and Alejandra.

MICHAEL TUCKER

Age: 66 Michael Tucker thought he could ride out the storm in his “man cave” on the second level of his home in Baytown. Even after 2 feet of water gushed into the home on Aug. 28, and his wife, Debbie, climbed into a rescue boat with their granddaughter and cat, Tucker stayed behind. After the water kept rising, however, he decided to try to leave in his four-wheel-drive truck. Tucker, who owned a machinist business, was apparently swept away. Rescuers found his truck the next day, abandoned in chest-high water, his cellphone and garage opener nearby. He was discovered down the street in high water, his wife said. The avid hunter and collector of guns loved Westerns. He had three children and as many grandchildren.

KEISHA MONIQUE WILLIAMS

Age: 32 Keisha Williams planned to ride out the storm taking care of her nursing-home patients, so she took her two daughters, ages 13 and 10, to a relative’s house on the night of Aug. 26. “She said she would be at work,” said Jolié Tillman, the children’s paternal aunt. “That’s the last time I talked to her.” Flooded roads blocked her path to Jacinto City Healthcare Center in east Harris County, however, so she ended up at a friend’s home. By Aug. 28, after the rains had eased, she returned to her apartment but got caught in a strong current. Her body was found Aug. 30 after floodwaters receded near her east Houston apartment complex. Williams was a lifelong Houstonian who graduated from Furr High School, said her grandmother, Marie Williams, 74. “She’d come and visit all the time,” the 74-year-old said. “I’m going to miss her.” Keisha Williams rose from a certified nursing assistant to a licensed vocational nurse and a team leader at work. Her next goal was to become a registered nurse. She would have turned 33 on Sept. 2.

RONALD ZARING

Age: 82 Ronald Zaring spent his life as a salesman and turned his expertise into entrepreneurship — repairing the devices he previously sold and selling hospitals, school districts and governments on those services. The 82-year-old was among several residents rescued by boat Aug. 27 from floodwaters that filled the Friendswood Health Care Center and taken to Friendswood High School. He suffered a heart attack on Aug. 29 while he and other nursing home residents were being transported by bus to Huntsville. Zaring, a longtime resident of Houston’s Sagemont neighborhood, had been living in the memory care wing of the nursing home for about a year. He had spent most of his early career working for Laerdal, a Norwaybased manufacturer of emergency medical equipment. He later ran his own company, Manikin Repair Center, for two decades. Devin Zaring applauded the nursing home staff for their efforts. “They put their personal lives to the side to take care of my dad and other patients,” he said. Ronald Zaring, who served in the U.S. Navy, is also survived by his wife of five decades, Judy, and two daughters.

ARANSAS COUNTY ARTHUR CURTIS ADAMS

Age: Arthur 39 Adams of Rockport sent his family to higher ground in San Antonio, planning to ride out the storm in the trailer he shared with Christi Rhodes and their son Nathan. For the family, it was their safe space, the spot where Arthur and 13-year-old Nathan could play video games and basketball. “Those two were truly the best of friends,” said Justine Benavides, the girlfriend of Christi’s son, Joshua Rhodes, whom Arthur counted among his five sons. The couple, according to a story in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, had been together 18 years. He sent her and Nathan to Josh, and when they offered to turn around to come get him, he refused, despite a mandatory evacuation. When Harvey made landfall on Aug. 25, officials in Rockport received word of a structure fire but could not respond because of the pounding storm. When firefighters finally arrived, the trailer was burned to the ground. Adams, according to officials, was the first casualty of the storm.

FORT BEND COUNTY JAMES SIMMON

Age: 63 When Jim Simmon turned 63 last spring, his friends took him to a Los Lobos concert. The celebration was a welcome diversion from the tough months before, after a car wreck forced the former newspaper editor to come to terms with his early-onset dementia. But his friends and family hoped for the best when he walked away from his Montrose home in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Gruff but funny, the Louisiana native worked as a political editor at the Houston Chronicle in addition to stints at the Houston Post, the Houston Press and the Bryan-College Station Eagle. He was also a father and an avid Astros fan. He was “a little bit of James Dean, a little bit of Jack Kerouac,” his friend, Alan Bernstein, wrote on Facebook. Two weeks later, on Sept. 12, Simmon’s body was found in a Fort Bend County sand pit some 20 miles from his home. He appeared to have drowned, his ex-wife Jamie Kaelin said.

GALVESTON COUNTY MARY AVILA

Age:A lifelong80 Galveston islander, Avila — known as “Chavela” or “Queeny,” according to her obituary — died Aug. 29 in a Texas City nursing home when she couldn’t get dialysis as a result of the storm and flooding. A longtime employee at the American National Insurance Co., Avila leaves behind four children and 12 grandchildren.

CLEVELON BROWN

Age: 64 Clevelon Brown of Dickinson died on Sept. 3, days after floodwaters had begun to recede. The 64-year-old had a cellulitis infection that turned septic after exposure to the murky floodwaters. Born in Galveston, Brown had called Dickinson home for more than four decades. He had retired from Coburn’s Supply after 40 years of employment. He was buried Sept. 13 in Hitchcock, according to his obituary.

PATRICK HURLEY

Age: 59 Patrick Hurley drowned in League City on Aug. 27, at the height of the flooding. Additional information about Hurley was not available.

BOBBY MURPHY

Age: 54 On Aug. 27, on the day a sudden rise in floodwaters forced massive evacuations in Dickinson, Bobby Murphy drowned during an illfated rescue attempt. Additional information about Murphy was not available.

BONNIE PARSUTT

Age: 69 Bonnie Parsutt died in her Santa Fe home after the electricity went out and her oxygen tank failed in the early hours of Aug. 27. Before the storm, family members had tried to persuade her to stay with them in Texas City. But Parsutt thought it safer to stay with her next-door neighbor, who had the generator she hoped could maintain her air supply even if power cut off. But after the storm knocked out electricity