Thank Your Storm Savior on Patch

Did someone let you crash on their couch? Cook you a warm meal? Take care of your dog? Shovel you out? Let you watch your favorite TV show while your cable was out? Give you a ride?

Recognize the people that helped you after the Oct. 29 snow storm that knocked out power to more than 50 percent of the Peekskill-Cortlandt area for several days.

In my apartment building many residents are 80 years old or more. A snow storm presents many problems for them that younger people do not have to deal with.

When the power was severed to half of the building, the elevators turned off. This meant that residents, many with hip, back and knee problems, would have a very hard time getting up and down to move their cars so the superintendent could plow.

So all morning long the younger residents went back and forth between the elder's apartments and the parking lot, helping both their neighbors and the superintendent who was trying to plow so all the cars could get out.

Also throughout the building younger residents were helping their older counter-parts call their family for help, stay warm and travel throughout the halls.

I have heard stories of neighbors lending extra parts to others so they could run their generators, friends welcoming others into their homes and families cooking  for relatives who needed a hot meal.

Local municiplities and politicans did what they could to help as well. With the Red Cross, the Town of Cortlandt opened the Muriel H. Morabito community center as a, Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School also opened a . Volunteers helped to run those shelters. NY State Senator Greg Ball hosted a BBQ to feed up to 300 people on Monday night.

Planet Fitness and Club Fit let people in to shower and restaurants served the hungry, powerless masses that showed up at their doors.

Who helped you during the storm? While you probably already thanked them for their hospitality or help already, give them that extra recognition by publically recognizing them and their good deed on Peekskill-Cortlandt Patch!

Leave your thank you in the comments below.