After Hurricane Harvey, a family throws away their past, piece by moldy piece

PORT ARTHUR, Texas - The past piled up on the side of the road, stuffed into black trash bags stacked on top of soggy furniture and moldy mattresses.

There was the still-crisp blue blazer and dress - with matching purse - that Corinth Williams got her grandmother for her birthday in July. Mold had crept into the sleeves. There was the dog figurine with puppies attached to its back. When Williams was a child, she used to play with it and break off each of the small dogs. Her grandmother, Evelyne Bowie, repaired it more times than she could remember.

There would be no fixing it this time.

There was mold everywhere in Bowie's house, which meant most everything had to go. Williams, 28, carefully considered the familiar items from her childhood memories of visiting Bowie and the things her grandmother cherished. That fruit centerpiece