Friendswood, Texas, is the type of community that one might think of as a “best case scenario” when it comes to recovering from a disaster. It is a small tight-knit town with well-resourced residents and a strong social infrastructure of local institutions that provided a huge outpouring of support in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane More

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