THESE DISPLACED TEENS WON'T BE HELD BACK BY HURRICANE HARVEY

Sam Washington, 19, is familiar with the halls and corners of Convent House As he makes his way through the shelter, he points out the waterline, where the carpets were ripped up, and the spots of ceiling that sprung leaks. "This room had it bad."

A shelter and facility that provides meals, services, and a place to sleep for homeless and at-risk youth, Covenant House was a constant refuge for Sam before Hurricane Harvey made landfall in southeastern Texas and ravaged Houston with rain for days. A recovering alcoholic and addict, Sam had stayed at Covenant House before, and that's where he returned when the father of the friend he was crashing with kicked him out of the house when the storm started. "I slept outside on their porch until the rain stopped," he tells MTV News. "I hurried and came back this way because I knew that they were gonna accept me."