WASHINGTON - Hurricane Irene has come and gone, and she didn't pack quite the colossal punch predicted by forecasters.
For those hundreds of people who cleaned out their local supermarket shelves in preparation, area food banks want to remind them they will happily take their excess supplies.
"Oh my, we would happily accept it," says Lisa Whetzel, director of Our Daily Bread in Fairfax, Va. "Our pantries are really low right now. We've had an extraordinary number of requests for pantry deliveries."
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2 comments:
might want to hang on to those... there's another storm, Katia, brewing in the atlantic...
Cathy, you got it.
Folks, if you have a spare dollar, send it to relief efforts for Vermont.
By the grace of God, that wasn't us. Beautiful state but terrible flooding.
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