As Hurricane Harvey battered the coast of Texas over the weekend, it was estimated that the storm could cost as much, if not more, than $40 billion worth of damages, with at least one death being attributed to the storm. But there was a touching moment after Harvey’s landfall on Saturday as Paul Goodloe, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel, discovered a downed American flag outside a school in Rockport, Texas. “I can’t let Old Glory just sit here like that,” Goodloe tells his camera man.
In a video tweeted out by The Weather Channel, Goodloe can be seen making his way through the debris covered streets when he spotted the flag next to a snapped palm tree. “I don’t know how strong the winds have to be to cut a palm tree in half, but that’s what happened to the top of this tree,” he said. “But next to it, you have Old Glory. I can’t let Old Glory just sit here like that.”
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.@Paul_Goodloe recovers an American flag on the streets of Rockport. pic.twitter.com/ifK5YT7ul7
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) August 27, 2017
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