Desperate search for the missing in Texas flood; at least 51 dead: live updates


World Central Kitchen, the nonprofit disaster relief group, is in the Texas Hill Country, bringing meals to families who are awaiting word about missing family or who have learned the worst.

Revonda Kirby, who handles community outreach for the disaster response group, said the organization often responds to large geographic disasters and responded to the central Texas flooding because of the “tragedy of the loss of life, even if you don’t have the displaced number of individuals that you might have from a hurricane or a tornado.”

Kirby said increasingly the group is responding to rural areas in addition to large disasters such as feeding war victims in Gaza, because of what seems to be more tornadoes happening beyond springtime.

Often as it’s doing in central Texas, the group contracts with local restaurants to prepare and provide meals. In this case it is feeding families still searching for loved ones and friends, stopping at hotels to provide food and distributing water.

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