The Cincinnati Enquirer Leland and Billien McCowan felt humiliation. A flood victim who told her story to The Enquirer in April and again in October, Mrs. McCowan shared her recovery tips earlier this week. Register with the Red Cross. We're used to giving, and it's a lot harder to receive, but you have to because you have nothing,'' says Mrs. McCowan, a division technical expert with Ford Consumer Finance in Blue Ash.
Patience is a virtue.
The McCowans left their home April 29. Thirty-six hours after they fled their home, the McCowans returned to survey the damage. They saved a little more than a third of their clothing. They washed what they could at a coin laundry. Then they took their clothing to a professional cleaner, which gave them a 25 percent discount because of the flood.