Houston looked bad. I watched a video of a man catching a fish in his flooded living room.
I paused at photographs of rest home residents swamped up to their waists.
In some parts of Texas, oil capital of America, Hurricane Harvey - later downgraded to a tropical storm - dropped 130cm of rain. It set a record: the most extreme rainfall ever recorded in the United States.
Climate scientists blame unusually high ocean temperatures in the nearby Gulf of Mexico for agitating and increasing the storm's size. There have always been hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, but climate change is making them worse.
It was interesting to contrast Harvey and the headlines on one side of the world with the coinciding headlines on the other.