According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), over 450,000 people need assistance and more than53,000 Texas residents have been displacedby Hurricane Harvey. Various aid groups are working tirelessly to provide shelter, emergency services, disaster relief products, and hope to Harvey victims.
Approximately 1 million people congregate in New York City to see the Times Square Ball drop every December 31. An event of that scale means somebody has to clean up afterward. While picking up trash after such a massive gathering sounds like a janitor's worst nightmare, it turns out the New York City Department of Sanitation transforms Times Square's streets from confetti wasteland to sparkling metropolis before the Big Apple's partygoers wake up the next morning.