Many people have been rendered homeless in the aftermath of the Hurricane Harvey in the coastal and low-lying areas of Southeast Texas on Sunday.
As rescuers raced to assist people trapped or injured by the epic storm, photos poured in showing the extent of the tragedy, and showing people helping people in desperation.
A man carrying a mother off a boat, as she cradles a sleeping infant. An elderly woman wincing as neighbors lift her off one of their boats. Five members of a family huddling together in blankets at a shelter in Houston.
Here are some of the photos.
Houston SWAT officer Daryl Hudeck carries Catherine Pham and her son 13-month-old son, Aiden, to safety after they were rescued via boat Sunday from the flooding on Interstate 610 south in Houston.
(Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer)
Melani Zurawski cries while inspecting her home Sunday in Port Aransas.
(Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman)
Neighbors used their own boats Sunday to rescue Jane Rhodes in the Friendswood area of Houston. Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on Friday night as the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade.
(Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle)
Terranysha Ferguson holds her son, Christian Phillips, as she sits Sunday with the rest of her family at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.
(Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle)
Gulf Coast Rescue Squad air boat driver Felton Jones pulls LaJuana Cinseros into the boat with the help of her husband, Freddie Cisneros, as they were rescued from their flooded home in Pearland Acres Mobile Home Community in Pearland.
(Tom Fox/Staff Photographer)
Ruby Young waits with her husband, Claude Young, after being rescued from their flooded home by boat Sunday and taken to a pickup point along Edgebrook Drive in Houston. Claude Young has health issues from a stroke in May.
(Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle)
A helicopter lifts a person during evacuation of Houston’s Meyerland area, Aug. 27, 2017.
(ALYSSA SCHUKAR/NYT)
Vi Tran uses a blanket to shield her daughters Olivia, 4, and Eva, 2, from the rain after being evacuated from Houston’s Meyerland area, Aug. 27, 2017.
(ALYSSA SCHUKAR/NYT)
In this photo provided by the Rosenberg Police Department water rushes from a large sinkhole on Highway FM 762 in Rosenberg, Texas, near Houston, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. Police say the sinkhole has opened on the Texas highway as Tropical Storm Harvey dumps more rain on the region. (Rosenberg Police Department via AP)
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County Road 143 Volunteer Fire Department Marcelo DeLeon holds a dachshund as others rescue homeowners from the flooded Pearland Acres Mobile Home Community in Pearland, Texas, Sunday, August 27, 2017.
(Tom Fox/Staff Photographer)
Police block traffic following closure of the I-10 freeway leading into Houston after Hurricane Harvey caused heavy flooding in the city, August 27, 2017.
(MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
Sherri Thomas, her son Brandon, 17, and their dog Jaba sit under a tarp while waiting to be bused to a shelter in Houston’s Meyerland area, where floodwaters were above some rooflines, Aug. 27, 2017.
(ALYSSA SCHUKAR/NYT)
A boat sits in a gas station parking lot Sunday after Hurricane Harvey had passed through Port Aransas.
(Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman)
Children play in a flooded road following the passage of Hurricane Harvey on August 26, 2017 in Galveston, Texas.
(BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
People look at submerged cars on a freeway flooded by Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, near downtown Houston, Texas.
(Charlie Riedel/AP)
Robert Grant and Rocky from the Texas Task Force 2 search and rescue team work through an apartment complex Sunday that was destroyed when Hurricane Harvey passed Rockport.
(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The restrooms were left exposed Sunday in one of the buildings destroyed by Hurricane Harvey in Rockport.
(Nathan Hunsinger/Staff Photographer)
Loretta Ward plays during a downpour Sunday at her flooded ranch along Pearland Sites Road in Pearland. Tropical Storm Harvey dumped waves of rain along the southeast Texas coast and the Houston area.
(Tom Fox/Staff Photographer)
Evacuees from Hurricane Harvey take shelter at the Delco Center in east Austin, Texas on Sunday, August 27, 2017. The Red Cross says they currently have 185 people but if needed, are prepared to handle 350 people at this location.
(SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP/Getty Images)
Letha McCraney was grateful that she and her dog, Coco, were rescued from their flooded home Sunday in Pearland Acres Mobile Home Community in Pearland. She was joined by her brother, Steven Barnes, and his dog, Peanut.
(Tom Fox/Staff Photographer)
In a driving rainstorm Sunday, a man heads back into the flooded Pearland Acres Mobile Home Community to try to save people’s belongings.
(Tom Fox/Staff Photographer)
Neri Sanchez cries as she hugs her grandson, Jonathan Sanchez, 1, after being reunited at a rescue boat pickup area Sunday along Edgebrook Drive in Houston.
(Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle)
Cristopher Cardona (left) and Dario Munoz (right) guide Rachel Beck and her dog, Blaze, to safety aboard an inflatable bed Sunday at Pearland Acres Mobile Home Community in Pearland. Dario says, “That’s what I sleep on.”
(Tom Fox/Staff Photographer)
A resident floats his pets and belongings on an air mattress along Mercury Drive as he flees floodwater at his home in Houston on Sunday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Mikhail Bachynsky hugs her dog, Lily, after they were rescued from their home Sunday in the Friendswood area of Houston. Neighbors used their own boats to rescue people stranded by flooding.
(Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle)
County Road 143 Volunteer Fire Department members (from left) Colby Maynor (in yellow), Derek Lacy, Marcelo DeLeon and Kadyn Truitt (in front) rescue folks stranded in their flooded homes Sunday at Pearland Acres Mobile Home Community.
(Tom Fox/Staff Photographer)
Herman Benitez carries his 9-year-old daughter, Pearl, through flood waters to a rescue boat Sunday after they were flooded out of their home in Pearland Acres Mobile Home Community
(Tom Fox/Staff Photographer)
Alyce Mark, of Christian Chapel Temple of Faith, helps unload groceries for Trusted World donations for Hurricane Harvey relief in Dallas on Sunday. The organization was accepting food, clothing and hygiene products, among other items.
(Andy Jacobsohn/Staff Photographer)
Margarita Faz, a Dallas Park and Recreation employee, folds a towel on a cot on Sunday afternoon on the Samuell Grand Recreation Center’s gym floor. The American Red Cross and the city of Dallas opened a third shelter for Hurricane Harvey evacuees at the recreation center at 6200 E. Grand Ave.
(Irwin Thompson/Staff photographer)
An abandoned vehicle sits in flood waters on the I-10 highway in Houston, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017.
Wilford Martinez, right, waits to be rescued by Harris County Sheriff’s Department Richard Wagner after his car got stuck in floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Rain is blown past palm trees as Hurricane Harvey makes landfall, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, in Corpus Christi, Texas. (Eric Gay/AP)
Stewart Adams, of San Marcos, Texas, plays in the winds from Hurricane Harvey in Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S. August 25, 2017. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
A car is surrounded by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey in Point Comfort, Texas, August 26, 2017. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
Business owner and resident Carlos Lopez assesses damage from Hurricane Harvey after arriving at his electronics repair shop in Rockport, Texas, U.S. August 26, 2017. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
A fallen tree lies along a road as an emergency response team arrives to assess damage from Hurricane Harvey in Rockport, Texas. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
playA Rockport firefighter goes door to door on a search and rescue mission as he looks for people that may need help after Hurricane Harvey passed through on August 26, 2017 in Rockport, Texas.
