Help Lynn recover from Brandywine Creek flood!

I’m Lynn’s brother, Mike. I live in Florida; she’s on the Brandywine Creek by the historic Lenape Park, close to Pocopson, Pennsylvania.

It’s unimaginable. Hurricane Ida brought a flood to Brandywine Creek that was as deep inside Lynn's house as any flood she experienced before she elevated her house 10 feet in the air. This flood was even worse because she was living like it could never happen again! She thought she was safe because she was elevated above the flood plain; she had no time to prepare — upon realizing it could happen, it rapidly began happening.

Water up to her thighs inside the house when she walked out onto her deck. Things were beginning to float and roll over inside. The deck outside her door is level with her floors inside. She was sitting on the railing when the pontoon boat picked her up.

Water Rescue snatched her from the railing on her backyard deck about 1:30 a.m. Thursday September 2, 2021.

Her car was across the fields on a bank by the road, water up to the top of the engine. So no car and nowhere to go. Her riding lawnmower also over there on "high ground" was completely submerged.

Couldn’t go to a friend’s house because all roads were closed except for Route-52 into West Chester. She sat on a bench in the West Chester Police Station Lobby, waiting for Enterprise Car Rental to open that morning.

She elevated her house a few years ago, quite an undertaking. She put all her effort and treasure into her home. She was quite sure this, floodwater inside her home, could never happen. This was unimaginable! This is devastating, not because of all her damaged stuff and the cleanup task, but…

….from the destruction of her piece-of-mind, which will exist long after cleanup and repairs are completed.

Lynn's house was built in 1890 and never flooded until modern times, with the advent of runoff from upstream development. But this flood is different, there has never been a flood like this, never, never ever!

Please help Lynn McCorkle Converse recover from this tragic flood. I wish I could do more to help; I’m 75 years old and cannot get to Pennsylvania and help.