'I thank them': Lake Geneva non-profit helps residents clean up after major storm damage
CBS 58 LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- It hasn’t been the 4th of July weekend Lake Geneva residents were expecting, after Friday's storm caused major damage throughout the city.
“I just came home from church and God dropped all these angels down on me,” said Charlene Manusos, who lives in Lake Geneva.
When Manusos returned to her home Sunday morning, she was surprised with kindness from strangers.
"I am very, very overwhelmed," said Manusos. "I didn’t expect this, I didn’t know they were coming and God bless them all.”
Charlene is just one of many in the neighborhood along Tomike Street and beyond still struggling to pick up the aftermath of Friday's strong storms.
"This is one of the storms that we’ve had that is truthfully the worst that I have seen since I’ve lived here in Lake Geneva," said Andrew Glass, with the Lake Geneva Jaycees.
Glass and Tanner Dahlhauser are two of several members of the non-profit group, Lake Geneva Jaycees that stepped up to help their community.
"It’s a tragedy man," said Dahlhauser. "Anytime a storm like this hits the community, you know it’s a great time for us to represent and support the people."
The group made a post offering up their help to clean up downed trees and other debris, going house to house to help those in need.
"When a storm like this hits, I mean come on we've got to do what we've got to do for the community," said Dahlhauser. "The family we were at before this was an elderly couple and the husband was disabled and for us to just got out and help them is everything."
As people in the area continue to deal with power outages and cleanup efforts, they say they are grateful to be able to lean on their neighbors.
"These young guys giving up their time to do this for people like me and everybody else, unless your faced with it, I was never faced with it before so could never relate to it and now, I don’t even know how to explain it," said Manusos "It’s just, I thank them."