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Taken by Storm
A Medical School Deluged

 

The Deluge...

Cars stranded on Holcombe Boulevard, a major street in the Texas Medical Center on Saturday, June 9. Photo by Paolo Fabio Fiumara, a postdoctoral fellow at M. D. Anderson, who waded in to check on laboratory experiments he began the day before.

Cars stranded on Holcombe Boulevard, a major street in the Texas Medical Center on Saturday, June 9. Photo by Paolo Fabio Fiumara, a postdoctoral fellow at M. D. Anderson, who waded in to check on laboratory experiments he began the day before.

On the morning of June 9, 2001, the medical school building's loading dock area was flooded with more than 20 vertical feet of water.

On the morning of June 9, 2001, the medical school building's loading dock area was flooded with more than 20 vertical feet of water.