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Shockers in Houston happy to see the sun after days of rising water

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P.J. Couisnard walked out of his Third Ward home on Wednesday morning and saw the sun for the first time in more than a week.

“That’s a good sign,” he said.

Houston and that part of Texas needs all the good signs it can get.

Couisnard, who played basketball at Wichita State from 2004-08, is one of several people with Shocker ties dealing with devastation from the hurricane and tropical storm over the past week. His parents run the Malachi Destiny & Purpose inner-city ministry in Houston.

“We haven’t been able to go nowhere for four, five days,” he said.