Helping out with essentials

Volunteers organize water to distribute Wednesday at the McGuire-Dent Recreation Center in Galveston. The vehicle line for the water distribution went for a few blocks.

Elizabeth Conley / Staff photographer Mayor Sylvester Turner, front left, and Police Chief Art Acevedo, second from left, talk to a woman as they tour a city warming shelter Wednesday at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

Jon Shapley / Staff photographer