PAYSON, ILLINOIS -- Storm cleanup continues around the Tri-States. We checked in with the village of Payson Wednesday to see how much progress the area has made.

Thirteen-year-old Reagan Neisen is used to spending time on a lawn mower, but Wednesday he wasn't mowing grass.

"I'm helping my aunt cleanup trees that were blown down in the big storm," said Reagan Neisen.

Neisen's grandma is Judy Neisen. Her sister's place took on much of the damage.

"Oh, we've been picking up pine trees. I don't know how many she had blow over on her neighbor's yard. We've been trying to help her pick some of that up," said Judy Neisen.

"It's not too hard. I've had harder work than this," said Reagan Neisen.

"She has a pool and part of the tree went in the pool. We won't be able to do that because we'll need a chainsaw. We're trying to do things we can do and lift ourselves," said Judy Neisen.

Across town, David and Joy DeLaPorte are putting their chainsaw to good use.

"We've got a walnut tree down. There's another walnut tree behind that. We've lost three or four more trees, plus the tops out of a lot of them. We've got about four days of work lined out for us," said David DeLaPorte.

"I was really saddened by all of the limbs that were down and losing all of the trees. We really enjoy them," said Joy DeLaPorte.

The DeLaPortes plan to replant trees when they get a chance. In the meantime, they also have other plans while they clean up their property.

"We're sweating a little bit. We're getting some sun. I hope to lose about 15 pounds by the time I get done, that's a pound per tree," said David DeLaPorte.

At least there's a silver lining to the dark cloud that brought the storm.

The Village of Payson set up a burn pile at the county maintenance shed for its residence.