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In Harvey’s wake, shelters spring up in unlikely places

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2017 file photo, 0eople displaced by Hurricane Harvey shelter at Gallery Furniture in Richmond, Texas. With more than 17,000 people flooded out of their houses, big-hearted Texans, religious institutions and businesses have turned their places into unlikely shelters, offering soaked, frightened and disconsolate storm refugees , two-legged and four-legged alike, a safe and warm place to sleep.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2017 file photo, 0eople displaced by Hurricane Harvey shelter at Gallery Furniture in Richmond, Texas. With more than 17,000 people flooded out of their houses, big-hearted Texans, religious institutions and businesses have turned their places into unlikely shelters, offering soaked, frightened and disconsolate storm refugees , two-legged and four-legged alike, a safe and warm place to sleep.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

By Associated Press September 1, 2017 1 min read

HOUSTON (AP) – Lots of unlikely places have been turned into shelters for Hurricane Harvey victims: a ballpark, a gas station, a bowling alley.

But surely the one with the most comfortable sleeping arrangements must be the Gallery Furniture showroom, just outside Houston.

Forty-seven-year India Jackson can’t help but marvel at the silky pillowcases, the $1,000 mattresses, and the atrium with its live ocelot and colorful parrots.

She is sleeping on a nice Tempur-Pedic even better than the one she has at home.

Says Jackson: “I might not want to go home.”