Meals and comfortable places to lounge and sleep are among the most coveted amenities when holed up in a shelter after a natural disaster—but a Houston businessman has that covered in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
While Joel Osteen's megachurch is taking heat for delayed efforts to house the region's displaced, WTHR reports that furniture entrepreneur Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale is being hailed as a hero for offering two of his roomy Gallery Furniture warehouses—filled with beds, sofas, and chairs—as a place for evacuees to hunker down.