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Sammy Saldivar Summary

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As his brother tells it, Sammy Saldivar tried his best to maneuver around Harvey's floodwaters.

Sammy packed his elderly parents and their great-grandchildren into a van as water rose around their northeast Texas home on Sunday.
He approached a waterlogged bridge over Greens Bayou and wanted to turn around. But his father yelled at him to keep going, his brother, Ric Saldivar, said. Even at 84, patriarch Manuel Saldivar was still demanding. The way they were raised, "Dad tells you to do something, you do it," Ric Saldivar

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