I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that after Harvey, Houston got a lot of national TV coverage showing its residents spontaneously organizing to h

I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that after Harvey, Houston got a lot of national TV coverage showing its residents spontaneously organizing to help each other out. In particular, churches and synagogues and mosques and temples collected, sorted, and delivered huge quantities of emergency supplies; they also sent out probably thousands of volunteer work crews to help the displaced to clean out their houses, rip out waterlogged drywall, etc. And I imagine some people remembered what those same Houston organizations and local governments had done after Katrina to help take care of New Orleans's evacuees. (Houstonian here.) EDIT: Spontaneously-organized mutual assistance certainly isn't just a Houston or Texas or U.S. phenomenon; I just remembered a story about Muslims in a small Indian fishing village who organized to help their Hindu neighbors after the 2004 tsunami [0]. [0] http://www.questioningchristian.com/2005/01/indian_muslims_.html http://www.questioningchristian.com/2005/01/indian_muslims_.... — the comments include comments from people saying they were from that fishing village.