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    Christmas wish for one hurricane-ravaged Texas town? Fresh water

    by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Dec 23, 2017 4 minutes

    ROSE CITY, Texas - It was before dawn when the woman responsible for running this small town's water system got a frightening call: The water tower was running low.

    Since Hurricane Harvey inundated this rural area 90 miles east of Houston with almost 10 feet of water in August, Janice Ratcliff has submitted drinking-water tests to the state, hoping to lift an order requiring nearly 600 residents to boil water. It would be a small step toward livability in Rose City, a town full of campers with Christmas trees set up outside.

    She returned to her flooded office the week after the

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