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Wednesday July 4, 2012
Feeding hungry grows more difficult in storm's aftermath
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - As thousands of West Virginians expected to spend several more days without power, emergency workers on Tuesday moved to make sure people don't go hungry.
The Mountaineer Food Bank in Braxton County sent a truck Tuesday morning to Nicholas County, where 3,000 people in a housing complex had not had anything for two days, the food bank's executive director, Carla Nardella, said
The storm that hit Friday knocked out power to more than a third of the state. That spoiled refrigerators full of food.
"People are out of power and their perishable food has now perished, and it's no longer usable and they still don't have electricity, so that presents a problem," said Huntington Area Food Bank director Scott Frasure.
"They can't go out and buy perishable food without the worry of it going bad again unless they have ice to keep it cool. Now we're looking at an ice shortage, so we're scrambling to get ice all the time."
The storm and the outages that followed also disrupted the normal food distribution system charities use to feed the hungry...
Wednesday July 4, 2012
Feeding hungry grows more difficult in storm's aftermath
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - As thousands of West Virginians expected to spend several more days without power, emergency workers on Tuesday moved to make sure people don't go hungry.
The Mountaineer Food Bank in Braxton County sent a truck Tuesday morning to Nicholas County, where 3,000 people in a housing complex had not had anything for two days, the food bank's executive director, Carla Nardella, said
The storm that hit Friday knocked out power to more than a third of the state. That spoiled refrigerators full of food.
"People are out of power and their perishable food has now perished, and it's no longer usable and they still don't have electricity, so that presents a problem," said Huntington Area Food Bank director Scott Frasure.
"They can't go out and buy perishable food without the worry of it going bad again unless they have ice to keep it cool. Now we're looking at an ice shortage, so we're scrambling to get ice all the time."
The storm and the outages that followed also disrupted the normal food distribution system charities use to feed the hungry...