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News Regional & State News Lend A Hand volunteers help 95-year-old clean up after Tropical Storm Lee
Friday, 23 September 2011 13:05

Lend A Hand volunteers help 95-year-old clean up after Tropical Storm Lee

Written by  Megan Lello, witf Reporter and Producer

(Harrisburg) -- Dauphin and Lebanon county residents whose homes were damaged by flooding from Tropical Storm Lee are receiving help cleaning up their properties from a midstate volunteer group. Lend A Hand, based in Camp Hill, Cumberland County, is a nonprofit that's rounded up volunteers from around the country to assist with recovery efforts. Lou Rimbach, a volunteer from Maryland, is spending a few days cleaning up the basement of 95-year-old Harrisburg resident Fannie Krevsky. Rimbach says he's seen the emotional toll that experiencing a natural disaster, such as a flood, can have on homeowners. "A lot of times, we find situations kind of like what we have here, where the homeowner can't bring themselves to come down here and face this," he says. "It's just too much for them to bear." Krevsky's grandson, Joshua Krevsky, says his grandmother appreciates the group since she's found it hard to take on cleanup by herself. "Right now, a 95-year-old woman living by herself, although she might not have gotten six feet of water in her basement, she has to fight a lot harder to get people to listen to her sometimes," he says. Lend A Hand volunteers have pumped more than 30 basements dry and have cleaned up dozens more midstate homes.

Megan Lello, witf Reporter and Producer

Megan Lello, witf Reporter and Producer

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