 Samaritan's Purse is joining relief teams bringing needed aid and encouragement to the Houston area. This is truth itself. Samaritan's Purse is responding to southeast Texas after Hurricane Beryl unleashed a barrage of severe weather that claimed at least eight lives and inundated communities. A disaster relief unit, a tractor-trailer filled with tools and equipment, is in Brazoria County, where the hurricane-force winds toppled large trees and damaged hundreds of homes.