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Texans’ do-it-ourselves rescue effort defines Hurricane Harvey

In Harvey’s aftermath, authorities confronted crises on several fronts. Houston remained flooded, and police there continued rescuing people while officials searched homes. Battered Beaumont, Tex., home to more than 118,000 people, was without a drinking-water system. Caption In Harvey’s aftermath, authorities confronted crises on several fronts. Houston remained flooded, and police there…

Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman follow the GPS information embedded in tweets in their series, Geolocation.

The internet may seem abstract and placeless, but Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman know better than most that every digital communication has an origin in the real world.

In 2009, the photographers came across a post showing the location of a geotagged tweet written by someone who’d just been laid off in downtown Chicago. They decided to go there and make a photo of whatever they found. Seeing the mostly empty street scene paired with the tweet was a revelatory moment.

“We both were kind of dumbfounded and were like, ‘This is really powerful.’ It was kind of an Oprah ‘Aha!’ moment,” Shindelman said.

BALTIMORE — Two days after the Baltimore uprising, I went to North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue. On Tuesday, police in riot gear had locked down the block, creating a human blockade to prevent movement of people and traffic. When I arrived on Wednesday, the street was open and moving, and there were people gathered on each of the four corners.

"One thing I've come to recognize is you can't assume your feelings are more profound than that of others. Everyone feels. Differently."