Cleanup continues from flooding in Butler, residents prepare for more rain

BUTLER, Pa. — People in Butler County were cleaning up from Wednesday's flooding, while preparing for the possibility of more flooding Friday night.

Some residents started to get their utilities back on, while they filled dumpsters with what they couldn’t salvage.

Any street that runs near Sullivan Run Creek in Butler looks like a disaster area.

For two days, Jake Barker has been dumping bucket after bucket of mud from his mom's basement.

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“I thought she was exaggerating, but got here and had to help,” Barker said.

Marcus Bough was doing the same for his mom. He was knee-deep in debris, also cleaning out the flooded basement.

“I'm tired, but still going,” Bough said.

Home after home devastated, some even condemned, has caused the city of Butler to declare a state of emergency, in effect for the next five days, possibly more. The Red Cross remains in the area.

“You have to stay chipper, it's just things, we are all OK,” Bough said.

Butler County employees were out in the heat Friday, walking the streets and feeding people who haven't had a hot meal in two days.

“This is our community and they are in need, we are here for them,” said Devon Cunningham with Community Care Resources.

And then there are the people who didn't see a drop of rain, who took off work and came to the affected areas to help out.

“It's what I wanted to do,” said volunteer Jamie Lee Gohring.

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