August 2026
Following the severe flooding across Indiana, IDES is taking action to assist affected homeowners in several central & eastern Indiana communities including Anderson, Cambridge City, Connersville, Hagerstown, Pendleton, and Noblesville.
Numerous local communities have been impacted, leaving families to deal with power outages, property damage, lost possessions, and a difficult path ahead.
On August 17 our US Disaster Response Team began mobilizing volunteers to assist homeowners with “Phase One” clean up & recovery efforts which include: removing debris and flood damaged items from homes, mucking out water and sediment, removing saturated carpet and other floor coverings, cutting drywall above the saturation line, removing wet insulation, and taking measures to increase air circulation to promote quicker drying.
For the first several weeks, our response efforts will primarily focus on cleanup activities, debris removal and mucking out damaged homes. As those efforts continue, we will begin evaluating the needs within each community, and our ability to be involved with longer term repair and recovery efforts.
UPDATE (August 11, 2026):
Our staff was all in the office this week-- in particular a bunch of people who are usually fully or partially remote. So we decided to take advantage of the disaster response in our backyard to give many of our staff who normally are in the office some hands-on-experience! We spent an afternoon mucking out a home and talking with the homeowner. It was an amazing opportunity for some of behind-the-scenes team members to experience first-hand what their work helps accomplish.
