CORVALLIS - Bright Ugwoegbu started practice early in the week armed with the knowledge that floodwaters had breached the doors of his childhood home.
Short of that, information was limited.
The Oregon State junior outside linebacker is from Katy, Texas, the house he moved into as a 9-year-old that sits roughly 25 miles west of downtown Houston. The region is immersed in one of the worst flooding disasters in United States history as a result of Hurricane Harvey and the continuing tropical storm that has pummeled Southeast Texas.
Ugwoegbu spoke on the phone with his mother, Grace, multiple times before the Beavers started their day of on-field work.