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<div><h1 class="pageheading layout_pageheading">Students take the lead on &#145;muck and gut&#146; flood-recovery</h1></div>
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<div class="pagephotocaption layout_pagephotocaption ">Beren Academy students Aaron Ayach and Daniel Gross helped remove destroyed property from homes in Willow Meadows on Aug. 30.</div>
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<tr><td><div class="pagebyline layout_pagebyline" style="padding-right:0px;">By MICHAEL C. DUKE | JHV<span style="color:#222222;padding-left:3px; padding-right:3px;">&#149;</span></div><div class="pageissuedate layout_pageissuedate"><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">GetArticleDate("8/31/2017");</script></div></td></tr>
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<div>Crews of teenagers from Robert M. Beren Academy have begun the arduous task of &#147;muck-and-gut&#148; in flood-damaged homes throughout the Willow Meadows subdivision, while other teen volunteers from the school distributed kosher food and drinks, supplied by Chabad-Lubavitch of Texas.<br><br>With roads opening back up and Hurricane Harvey&#146;s floodwaters finally receding in Southwest Houston on Wednesday, Aug. 30, front yards near United Orthodox Synagogues were filling up with discarded mounds of destroyed carpeting, wood flooring, furniture, mattresses, appliances and the familiar site of soggy drywall.<br><br>Many of the teen volunteers &#150; barely over the age of B&#146;nai Mitzvah &#150; were involved in dozens of house rescues in Willow Meadows after Hurricane Harvey caused Brays Bayou to crest early Sunday morning, Aug. 27.<br><br>Beren high schoolers Idan Benjamin, Noah Diner, Akiva Garner and Rebekah Grzebinski worked as a team, going house to house, helping homeowners with whatever work needed to be done.<br><br>The first home they went to on Wednesday took in as much as 3 feet of floodwater, despite the house being built up on higher ground after Tropical Storm Allison in 2001.<br><br>&#147;We took out books, bookcases, mattresses, furniture and couches,&#148; said Diner.<br><br>The next house they visited was even worse, the teens noted.<br><br>&#147;It was really devastating,&#148; Grzebinski told the JHV. &#147;Literally everything in the family&#146;s house is ruined.<br><br>&#147;It&#146;s so terrible to see kids&#146; stuffed animals and trophies and everything sentimental all gone."<br><br>Garner and Diner partnered together earlier that week as they carried out a series of daring floodwater rescues along neighborhood streets that had become rivers.<br><br>&#147;We woke up early Sunday morning and went out in boats at around 5 a.m.,&#148; Garner said. &#147;We were out rescuing people for 10 hours straight that day.&#148;<br><br>Diner said one of the more involved rescues involved a family with two children, a mother, a grandmother, three cats and a dog.<br><br>While the boats initially were deployed to rescue flooded residents who either sent distress calls to a Jewish-led emergency response team, or who were pre-identified by the team as potentially vulnerable, teens who operated the boats ended up saving other neighbors in need, including those who aren&#146;t Jewish, they said.<br><br>&#147;We&#146;d be heading out to go help someone specifically but, on the way, we&#146;d see someone else,&#148; Garner said. &#147;At one point, we saw a guy waving us down, who had his baby with him and a 4-year-old inside with his wife.<br><br>&#147;We weren&#146;t technically asked to go help them, but when you see someone, even though they aren&#146;t in our direct community, when someone is calling for help, you can&#146;t say no,&#148; Garner said. &#147;So, we had to go help them, too, and we&#146;re proud to have done that.&#148;<br><br>As the teens worked inside flooded homes Wednesday, other high school students from Beren Academy drove all around the neighborhood during lunchtime, offering kosher meals and cold drinks.<br><br>&#147;We&#146;ve managed to give out 20-25 meals over the last hour, plus about a dozen extra drinks,&#148; said Nathan Plumb, 17, who drove an SUV packed with food and a large cooler.<br><br>With so many residential kitchens destroyed and kosher meat in short supply at local grocery stores, some of which have yet to reopen, having hot meals delivered to doorsteps in the neighborhood with a high concentration of Orthodox families is much appreciated, residents told the JHV.<br><br>Delivery crews noted that food donations have come from different sources.<br><br>&#147;Today&#146;s food came from Chabad,&#148; Plumb said.<br><br>Rafi Engelhart and his family moved to Houston a year ago. Their home on Cliffwood Drive took in about 4 feet of water during Hurricane Harvey.<br><br>&#147;We&#146;re one for one,&#148; said Engelhart, noting that neighbors of his have flooded three times over the past three years.<br><br>&#147;To be honest, I&#146;m feeling OK right now,&#148; he told the JHV four days after flooding.<br><br><TABLE ALIGN=RIGHT BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=3 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH=1><TR><TD><IMG SRC=/clients/jhvonline/rafi.jpg></TD></TR><TR><TD ALIGN=CENTER><FONT CLASS=CAPTION><font color=&#146;red&#146;><i>JHV: MICHAEL C. DUKE</font color><p align=left>Rafi Engelhart and his family are determined to rebuild after their home on Cliffwood Drive was devastated by Hurricane Harvey. </p></i></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><br>Engelhart, standing amid ripped up floorboards in the front room of his house, spoke through a facemask to protect from the stench left by toxic floodwaters and growing mildew.<br><br>&#147;We have great company over here,&#148; Engelhart said. &#147;There&#146;s nothing you can do about the tragedy, yet, you can&#146;t escape the fact that there is a lot of stuff being lost. Having to throw away so many things is hard.<br><br>&#147;But, you&#146;ve got to make the best of it,&#148; he said.<br><br>As Engelhart spoke, teens were busy hauling out flood-damaged clothing and furniture to the curb.<br><br>&#147;We&#146;ve been clearing out anything that got wet,&#148; said Jeremy Morgan, 13, who had no trouble keeping up with older teens as they worked to empty out the Engelharts&#146; home of its losses.<br><br>&#147;It was pretty bad in here,&#148; Morgan said. &#147;Everything that wasn&#146;t placed on high tables pretty much got destroyed.&#148;<br><br>Aaron Ayach, 15, noted that the floodwaters managed to knock over a refrigerator, spilling its contents into the water as it took over the house.<br><br>&#147;We&#146;ve actually seen that in several homes we&#146;ve helped in today,&#148; Aych told the JHV.<br><br>Engelhart serves as director of Student Activities at Beren Academy. His students have been lining up to help at his house.<br><br>&#147;I have the privilege of working with these kids on a permanent basis,&#148; he said. &#147;These kids are incredible.&#148;<br><br>As Engelhart dealt with the house situation, his wife, Stacey, was at Beren helping Rabbi Aaron Levitt, the school&#146;s Judaics principal, run the first day of a mini-camp for children impacted by the storm. More than 60 kids showed up for the first day of camp.<br><br>That camp was planned, in part, by Rabbi Levitt&#146;s wife, Elisheva Levitt, who currently is stranded in New York.<br><br>&#147;I was in New York getting our daughter [Shira] off to Israel when the storm hit and I wasn&#146;t able to get a flight back to Houston until Sunday,&#148; Elisheva told the JHV by phone on Wednesday evening.<br><br>&#147;I&#146;ve been non-stop emailing and phone calling from here,&#148; she said. &#147;I&#146;ve been doing everything I can from this end, but I really want to be there, helping on the ground.&#148;<br><br>Elisheva is Beren&#146;s Lower School principal and has seen news reports that students from the school took part in rescues and now are helping the community with flood recovery.<br><br>&#147;Those are the rays of light coming from this darkness,&#148; she said. &#147;Seeing so many students being so selfless and amazing.&#148;<br><br>She added, &#147;The minute I&#146;m off that plane on Sunday, I&#146;m rolling up my sleeves to help someone, somewhere, myself.&#148;<br><br>Engelhart told the JHV that it&#146;s hard to balance the need to handle one&#146;s own challenges while still trying to be there for others who also are in need in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.<br><br>&#147;But, everyone has to help each other out &#150; that&#146;s the only way we can get through this,&#148; he said. &#147;You reach the point where you&#146;ve got to put some of your personal challenges aside and be able to help other people.<br><br>&#147;Everyone, here, wants to do that,&#148; he added. &#147;Everyone wants to take care of each other &#150; they are really there for the community. That&#146;s the wonderful thing about this community.<br><br>&#147;People are receiving, but they also are giving of themselves,&#148; Engelhart said. &#147;Especially our youth.&#148;</div>
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