HOUSTON — Piles of storm debris still lined the curb on Lake Forest Boulevard. His home was still a shell with bare concrete floors and exposed walls. His bed was still a mound of clothes in a back room. Eight panels of Sheetrock still sat outside awaiting installation.

But in the euphoria after the Houston Astros won their first World Series title late Wednesday, none of it seemed to matter for Waylon Doucett, who jumped and danced and screamed on his porch with his friends and neighbors.

Every city wants a World Series victory. Houston, post-Harvey, needed one.

Two months after Hurricane Harvey struck Texas and devastated swaths of Houston, including Mr. Doucett’s Lakewood neighborhood, the Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-1, in Game 7 of the Series, capping a dramatic season that gave the city what many fans here called a great mass distraction.

“You can see it in their eyes,” Mr. Doucett, 32, said of the Astros players after spraying Budweiser in the air until the cardboard covering the windows got wet, not too far from where he had carried an elderly neighbor on his back through chest-high floodwaters. “They know the devastation. They know what we’re going through down here. Of all times, what better time to win the World Series than right now.”