I talked to a woman at the Conklin Presbyterian Church (607-775-0365),
who referred me to their dispatcher in another part of the building. She
is Carol Fuller, cell # 607-240-8222. She said that their area was one of
the worst hit (as we observed) and that help in cleaning out basements,
etc would be needed for quite a while.

I asked her whether people from this far away should call her before
coming, and she said no, just come. Generally homeowners don't like to
have helpers come TOO early. Starting at 10:00 or 11 is generally good.
Come to the church to be sent out. I neglected to ask what to bring, but 
I'd guess
boots, work gloves and shovels would be about it. (I'd still want to call
ahead if I were going to go again.)

Certainly it would be a lot more efficient from here to go directly there
than to go to Salvation Army and then likely be sent out in that
direction.

Martha