BENNINGTON, N.Y. -- It's been a long two weeks for Dale and Debra D'Arconte. The couple's basement was flooded, and part of the foundation buckled after a severe storm.

Community members donated a trailer and an outhouse for temporary use, but the real relief came this week with the arrival of Eight Days of Hope, a Mississippi-based non-profit that's rebuilt 2,000 homes.

President and founder Steve Tybor is a Buffalo native who happened to be at a Christian music & arts festival at Darien Lake this week, and convinced people to make the nine-mile trip south to Bennington, Wyoming County.

"We're leading people that come to the festival offsite to love and serve those in need, and when I heard the need of a veteran whose house flooded, who had no flood insurance, man, that was an easy answer," Tybor said.

Tybor said he and his crew were ready and willing to fix the basement and foundation issues, but he discovered something else when he got there.

"The roof was in really rough shape, and you're going to fix a house, and maybe six months from now, this veteran's going to need a new roof?" Tybor said.

Tybor made some phone calls, and sure enough, roofing company RA Haitz in Batavia donated all of the material to get the job done.

Neighbors Diane Forgnone and Kelly Napieralski have worked tirelessly to help the D'Arcontes since the flooding. They say they are still in awe of what has happened.

"That was God moving right there. This was a miracle that these people had seen our story and that they were able to reach out to us and help us in ways we could have never imagined when we started this project two weeks ago," Napieralski said.

A building inspector approved the work Friday afternoon, and allowed the D'Arcontes to move back in. They still need to put in a new furnace, hot water tank, sump pump, well pump and reservoir tank, but feel they are now in a much better place.

"It's wonderful, and we actually got friendship out of the deal," Debra D'Arconte said.

Tybor says Eight Days of Hope did about $35,000 of work on the home. He says the non-profit will open its second hub in Buffalo early next year to focus on rebuilding homes all across the northeast.