This is nothing new for the Romneys. I remember that they stepped up to aid people in CA during the campaign in 2008. It was either after a forest fire, or a landslide. Romney and his sons were out there digging trenches to save a neighborhood in Southern CA.
OTOH, I’ve never seen Obama pick up a tool to help anybody.
Hey! He hung curtains! (Cue the picture of Obama hanging curtains).
That's because 0bama is a tool, and he only helps himself.