Stranded after Beryl: How some Houston neighborhoods suffer after hurricanes

Hours after Hurricane Beryl ripped through her Houston neighborhood, Jennifer Cormier sat in her driveway and wondered how she would make it to her next dialysis appointment.

“Nothing’s changed,” she said. “In all these years nothing’s changed.”

Cormier’s regular dialysis center texted her Monday afternoon to reschedule her next appointment to Wednesday. She doesn’t know how she’ll get there.

Meanwhile, the Cormier’s power remains out – as it is for everyone for several blocks in every direction – and severed power lines hang just above knee-high flood water in the Cormier’s side yard.

“If you go on south though, where there’s money, it’s not like this,” Devon said, before echoing his mom’s refrain: “Nothing’s changed, really.”