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Beach resident volunteers for Red Cross in Minnesota/North Dakota

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Fort Myers Beach resident Betty Conley has been in the Midwest volunteering her time and effort in flooded areas.

Conley is a Lee County Red Cross licensed health services volunteer. This is a blog from her sent to Colin Downey, public relations/marketing coordinator for the American Red Cross of Lee County.

From Morehead, Minn. on March 30:

“The river is subsiding, but we don’t know when they’ll allow people to begin returning to their homes. This is my fifth day here. I’m working as a nurse at a school in Morehead and I’ve seen over 60 clients. We’ve had a little of everything but we’ve spent a lot of time calling drug stores to get prescriptions filled. Things are running very smoothly here. They planned for the worst, so we have a lot of staff. After eating cold sandwiches for days, today we received our first hot meal. The clients were super happy and so was the staff. I’m working 12-hour shifts. I had been staying in a truck stop motel 50 miles away, but we just received housing much closer. I’m enjoying myself a lot and enjoying the difference in culture. We have about 100 firefighters staying at the shelter, so that makes for a good time. We also have a few babies and several young children. Overall, we’re having a good time. I always like being deployed. Tell everyone down there hello for us.”