![]() She set up a coffee urn on a folding table beside the picture-book white church that houses the community center, and before long, other people started bringing things - baked goods, cases of bottled water, jugs of milk, gas grills, burgers, hot dogs. "I can't drive a bulldozer, but I can make coffee." "The National Guard showed up yesterday but they didn't bring water or anything," said Erica Regan, who looked for a way to help others after finding her flower shop unharmed. Residents who gathered on the community center lawn said state or federal aid had not materialized yet on Tuesday morning, so people took matters into their own hands. There was still no municipal water on Tuesday in Windham and the sewage system was broken. It was the same story up and down Main Street in Windham, a ski town high in the Catskill Mountains that was under several feet of brick-red water Sunday night when a stony creek, the Batavia Kill, grew to a raging river fueled by a foot of rain. ![]() "The magnitude of generosity and good will is just overwhelming. "Friends, loved ones, people I don't even know showed up with trucks, bulldozers and hugs," said the 26-year-old massage therapist, as men and women scraped and mopped around her. Antonia Schreiber stood Tuesday afternoon in the 200-year-old Victorian cottage she had transformed into a luxury day spa and marveled that she could see blond floorboards where 24 hours earlier there had been a foot of mud, mangled shrubs and tree limbs left by Irene's floodwaters.
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