Two Clearfield women are waiting for new skirting to be put on their trailers after flood relief workers took out the damaged parts last month.

Even though there’s more work to do, organizers say things have really slowed down here.

Their big problem is that they need more volunteers to help.

“The way that the water came up, it was actually coming up over and was high with my porch. It moved the  house a little bit,” says flood victim Kim Rager.

“I didn’t hear it, nothing! And, it was bad,” says flood victim Cheryl Taylor.

The flood ran down Willow Drive on June 2.

Rager, already displaced years ago by a flood in Westover, got help from volunteers who took away the skirting in July for both her and a neighbor and put it in a pile — still sitting at the curb.

“The kids were from all over. They came in, sat down, and talked to me. Nice kids,” says Taylor.

“When we first started, we had a great support from the Catholic youth ministries up in Frenchville. They provided us with at least 10 people per day,” says Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church disaster response coordinator Ron Salsman.

But on Tuesday at the old Third Ward fire hall on Martin Street, the Methodist disaster team, also called UMCOR, is just two oeople strong, yet acing a list of 36 projects.

Salsman says the Southern Baptist team left 13, and they found even more need after going out in the field.

“There’s a difference between doing the clean-up, which is just simply cleaning up the mess, and the restoration,” says Salsman.

According to Salsman, the Susquehanna Methodist conference allotted $20,000 for their efforts, and added dollars from the Clearfield Ministerium, Presbyterians, and Marvin Smith’s recent walk fundraiser could double that. But, he still needs the workers.

“I’m very, very grateful, because without them, I wouldn’t have been able to get any of it done,” says Rager.

“They cleaned up all the trash and the dirt and the leaves and sticks,” says Taylor.

Meantime on Williams Street, Francis Yankevich was working on the pieces of his trailer, now demolished.

“It has to be cleaned up so nobody gets hurt,” says Yankevich.

Yankevich says UMCOR volunteers helped remove the trailer, but code issues make re-building unlikely.

“I would love to find a place, a trailer that has a lot, or a small house. I haven’t found anything yet and I miss my dogs,” says Yankevich.

For now, his pets, stay with friends, while he bunks in a church, two months later.

Salsman, of the Bloomsburg area, says they have some teams that want to come in October, but they are still trying to stay busy until then.