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A year after Harvey, $37 million raised by J.J. Watt is still changing lives

HOUSTON -- What started as a simple message turned into $37 million.

"I'm sitting here watching the news and checking the Internet and seeing everything that's going on with Hurricane Harvey and the damage it's causing back home," Houston Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt said in a video he posted to Instagram on Aug. 27, 2017, from his hotel room in Dallas. "It's very difficult.

"That's our city. It's very tough to watch your city get hit by such a bad storm and not be there to help. Not be there to help with the recovery.