A handful of local Greater Cincinnati - Dayton Region Red Cross volunteers are among those helping flooding and tornado victims in Oklahoma and North Texas.
Ron Bonhaus has been a volunteer for more than 20 years. He'll be making sure people have enough to eat, and he'll stay as long as he's needed.
"This looks like it's going to be more involved because of the weather predictions for more rain and more bad weather," says Bonhaus. "I don't think there are many areas where the water has receded yet. So, my guess is that it will be a minimum of two weeks. It could go as long as a month or longer than that."
On his first Red Cross deployment in 1993, he helped an elderly couple fill sandbags to protect their home from flooding along the Mississippi in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The couple has since died, but he says he still keeps in touch with their family.
"One of my fondest memories is just meeting people like that who don't have much but are just so thankful and grateful for what you do. I think many careers or things that happen in life, you don't always get that feedback sometimes," says Bonhaus.
The Red Cross has almost 50 shelters currently open in the two states. It estimates it will spend more than $3 million helping those in need.
