MILWAUKEE COUNTY, Wis. (CBS 58) -- One week ago, we saw the devastating effects of historic flooding in Wisconsin.

Since then, we’ve also seen the community come together in their time of need.

Brentwood church in Milwaukee handed out free disaster aid relief to about 400 cars on Sat. Aug. 16, brought in by a truckload from Tennessee.

It was a blessing arriving just in time to help Wisconsinites clean up from the historic flooding. Armelia Pierre from Milwaukee says it's something she never expected, "never in my life, nope. I’m 86 years old and never seen nothing like this before.”

Being given away were free diapers, cleaning supplies, food, and prayers - anything to get them back on their feet," Pierre said the rain "flooded my whole basement and it made it up to the second step. I lost all my furnish down there”

Organizers like Hazel Miller were also impacted but put their life on pause to help others first. “it’s a lot of work, a lot of cleanup. It’s a little overwhelming because everyone was impacted, and it’s very limited resources and people can help. But we made it through.”

Over in West Allis, a free rummage sale was organized by Bethany Crawford, someone who wanted to help: "I know of a lot of my friends and family who had their houses destroyed, their basements from the basements to top floor. And i was like, well i have a lot of stuff that i've been wanting to get rid of and wanting to donate, and so why don't i just have a free rummage in my backyard?"

But, as others offered their donations, Crawford's backyard got overflowed, taking over her house, eventually being hosted at 414 church's parking lot.

There were tables full of household items to replace those taken by the flood.

This initiative offering must needed items for those who lost everything.  

“House ended up having 14 feet of water on it. We’re by McCarty Park area so we lost two levels of our house, completely everything," says Amanda Kosinski. "We’re in the process of gutting it ourselves, because we know, with insurance not covering anything, we won’t be able to afford any help or support”

Kosinski went to pick up some things to help her two-year-old find some normalcy again

“The first two days, he was playing in the puddles and fun, and then he learned the inconsistency we have, and he doesn’t know what to do”

While the road to recovery is a long one… support like this is providing more than physical help:

"It's super encouraging. It's so cool to see the community just really come together," says Kosinski.

"It's something to small to see other people, that we're not alone and it's kind of nice that we’re not the only ones in this situation. We could probably write what we have physically left on a piece of paper, but a list of those that have shown up for us could go a mile long." she continued.

If you would like to help, she created a GoFundMe, you can find that here.