Find help, fast

If you are not sure who to call, call this. 211 is staffed around the clock by people whose entire job is connecting you to local help, and they have live information on what is open.

• Dial 211 from any phone
• Text your ZIP code to 898211
• Or use the website to search

Free and confidential. Interpretation is available in many languages.

Closures are changing constantly as crews clear debris and utilities work on lines. Check before you leave, not before you left.

Dial 511 or use the website. Do not check it while driving.

You do not have to be suicidal to call 988. If you are overwhelmed, panicking, cannot stop shaking, or cannot think straight after what happened, that is exactly what this line is for.

• Call or text 988 from any phone
• Chat online at 988lifeline.org
• Press 1 for the Veterans Crisis Line
• Spanish-language support available

Free and confidential.

The Boys & Girls Club of Menasha, 600 Racine Street has become the fullest single-stop site in the city. If you can only get to one place, this is the one that covers the most.

Open weekdays, 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Showers and restrooms — a shower trailer is parked in the North Parking Lot. Nothing to sign up for.

Lunch and dinner provided daily.

Supplies to take home:

• Water
• Non-perishable food
• Health and hygiene supplies
• Youth and adult clothing, and shoes

Other places offering free showers

You do not need a membership at any of these:

• YMCA of the Fox Cities — Apple Creek, Appleton, Fox West, Heart of the Valley, Neenah-Menasha, Ogden, and Valley Tennis Center. The Neenah-Menasha YMCA (110 W North Water St) runs 5:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
• Fire Fitness locations
• Planet Fitness — 697 S Green Bay Rd, Neenah, and 2700 W College Ave, Appleton

Other supply pickup points

• Calvary Bible Church — 1450 Oakridge Rd, Neenah. Come to door 15. 8:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m., closed Sundays. Non-perishable food, water, clothing and hygiene, diapers and wipes, cleaning supplies.
• Elks Lodge / St. Patrick's Church — 328 Nicolet Blvd, Menasha. Daily 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
• Mill City Church — 120 N Lake St, Neenah, just north of Main. Outdoor cleanup totes and personal hygiene totes.
• Community Clothes Closet — 1465 Opportunity Way #B, Menasha.

Crisis Cleanup is the shared hotline that faith-based and voluntary disaster organizations use to coordinate after storms. You call once, describe what you need, and your address goes onto a map that participating relief groups work from.

They can often help with: cutting and removing fallen trees, tarping a damaged roof, removing debris, and hauling out wet or destroyed contents.

This is completely free. Volunteers are not paid and will never ask you for money. Anyone who quotes you a price is not with Crisis Cleanup.

Two honest caveats: help is not guaranteed and depends on how many volunteer teams reach the area, and it can take days. Call as early as you can. Keep working your insurance claim in parallel — do not wait on volunteers.

The Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau arranged reduced rates at hotels across the Fox Valley and Oshkosh for residents displaced by the July 27 storms.

When you call, identify yourself as a resident of an evacuated area. That is what unlocks the emergency rate and priority assistance — it is not applied automatically and it is usually not bookable online.

Individual hotels, rates and current availability are listed separately below. Availability changes quickly; call before you drive.