We know people were up in the attics hollering for help.

We were wounded, we weren't totally wiped out. We've still got infrastructure here that doesn't exist anywhere else in the country. That gives us some advantages.

The priority is to help people return to their way of life, to return to their homes and their communities.

We're getting access to areas we could not get to, and that's going to help us greatly. It's not a large (pumping) capacity at this point ... but at least it's progress.

In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.

Without the assistance of such organizations as the Lake County REACT unit and the Madison Police Department and the help of more than a dozen community volunteers, we could never put on such a successful event.