In the wake of Hurricane Beryl, fresh food and cool air are coming from Houston community groups that have honed their disaster services in a city frequently battered by extreme weather.
Meals on Wheels employees take advantage of an assembly line to prepare bags of food for clients, Friday, July 12, 2024, in Houston . Staff deliver hot meals as well as shelf stable items to clients daily, many of whom are still without power after Hurricane Beryl. Warehouse Specialist David Callwood pulls a load of bagged, shelf-stable foods to be stored and used for next week’s Meals on Wheels deliveries to clients, Friday, July 12, 2024, in Houston .
It’s been a challenge for CrowdSource Rescue to allocate generators with such great need, executive director Matthew Marchetti said.“The banner cry has been ‘Houston Strong,’” he said. “I kind of want to be ‘Houston Normal’ for a while.” “Mutual aid is really good at giving out hot meals and mucking out houses,” he said. “But we need to bury our power lines and build massive flood infrastructure.”Worried that damaging hurricanes are brewing so early, Sally Ray, director of domestic funds at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, said donors should more strategically be “supporting these communities in the long term to make them better prepared for what may come next.
The nonprofit also provides people with five shelf-stable meals each in June ahead of hurricane season. Beryl hit so early that Meals on Wheels plans to deliver another round soon. The successive extreme weather events are worrying even the most established nonprofits. Houston Food Bank, which serves 18 southeast Texas counties through more than 1,600 community partners, tries to collect over 40 tractor trailer loads of disaster relief supplies before hurricane season begins in June, said Brian Greene, the organization’s president.
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