When Tropical Storm Harvey first made its way into the region, Katie Durio and her staff at Stable-Spirit, a therapeutic riding facility in Rose City, thought they would be safe. By Aug. 30, as Harvey began unleashing a relentless torrent of rainfall, swelling the Neches River and surrounding bayous, water began rising at an increasingly rapid pace. It became clear that Durio and the 17 horses that call the stables home needed to get out. By the time the first trailers arrived, Durio was already in waist-high water.