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A Chappaqua ultramarathoner is raising money to help others doing the COVID-19 crisis, and he's doing it all without leaving his garage.

Eric Gelber is rowing the distance of three marathons - 78.6 miles&nbsp; - in around 14 hours. That's about 13,000 pulls on his rowing machine.

Gelber's mission is to feed his community. He's using the event to raise money to help the Mount Kisco restaurant Stone Fire in its efforts to provide free meals to first responders, medical personnel and families in need.

The event will be livestreamed on his Instagram.

"When I do these type of fundraisers I think it's important to really push yourself and I feel the more I'm willing to push myself the more people are willing to donate," says Gelbert. "My message is anybody can do anything to help people in need right now." Gelber has raised $7,000 so far.

Click <a href="https://gullottahouse.org/feeding-mount-kisco-families-responders/">HERE</a> to donate.

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Eric Gelber is rowing the distance of three marathons to raise money to feed first responders and community members.

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The Cortland Manor Community Center. All right, when you could go outside and make any donations that you want. Let's go right to meteorologist, Alex Calamia to tell you the best times. Hey, Alex. Hey, Jen. Anytime today looks good. We're really pretty pleasant. Your highs today reach mid ff tomorrow. Upper fifties, definitely temperature is not the problem, but the rain is, we have showers in the morning, nothing huge there, but then a soaking in the afternoon. Here's the timing here. So obviously very quiet. Look at this forties, mid forties, even a few upper forties at seven o'clock. So you wear a jacket, you're good to go. You could leave the heavy jacket, you could leave the gloves at home. It's not gonna be the that kind of chill and the wind is very calm. That could actually bring some fog back into the picture overnight. But aside from that, you are problem free in the weather department for your Saturday evening, Sunday morning. Different story. It's mainly quiet early. But once we hit lunchtime, 287 southward gets in on some soaking rain and the wind isn't a problem at first. But by four o'clock keep in mind it's a sunset time. Now we're talking some really solid heavy rain. 56 o'clock, really solid heavy rain. Eight o'clock still raining. It looks like this is gonna set up over Westchester County right now. But Putnam Rockland, even Dutchess and Orange County are getting in on a pretty decent swath. Your risk is lower in Ulster County, but everybody gets in on at least some really solid heavy rain. Sunday in the evening and early overnight, there are gonna be a few snow flakes Monday morning, most of that north and west of Westchester County, but everybody will have to keep an eye out for the wind on Monday, although the rain won't be a problem. So your flash flood risk as of now for Sunday is slight. So we have a slight risk as a level two out of four risk for flooding two inches possible across a good chunk of the Hudson Valley where you're seeing the red that's locally three. So this is one model and then this next, it's called the her high resolution rapid refresh. This is a high resolution model showing you about two inches of rain for Westchester County, a lower resolution very reliable model, two inches of rain. So we're looking at lots of consistency here, but we're seeing 2 to 3 inches of rain in the lower Hudson Valley. Good news is rest of the work week, no problems.

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Ultramarathoner to row to raise money to feed COVID-19 responders