Jefferson City Public Schools announced Tuesday which Texas schools received many of its books gathered in a post-Hurricane Harvey book drive.
JCPS' districtwide book drive in September collected more than 130 boxes of books. Melanie Thompson, librarian at Thorpe Gordon Elementary School, coordinated the drive, and Thorpe Gordon became the central place to collect the boxes.
After former JCPS school board member Joy Sweeney made the first delivery of books to Royalwood Elementary in Houston, a teacher from Smithton R-6 Middle School east of Sedalia delivered JCPS books along with books and supplies collected there to St. Mary's Catholic School in Orange, Mariceville Middle School in Mauriceville and Vidor Elementary School in Vidor, all located east of Beaumont, Texas, according to a post on JCPS's Facebook page.
The Texas Tribune reported after Harvey made landfall Aug. 25, the storm hovered inland over the Gulf Coast for four days and dropped "almost 50 inches of rain in the Port Arthur-Beaumont area alone."
Like in Houston, the intense rainfall produced catastrophic flooding in the area. "One of the schools reported that only 200 of their library books had been salvageable," according to JCPS' Facebook post.