First Alert: WCK’s #ChefsForPuertoRico team responds to Tropical Storm Ernesto
World Central Kitchen’s Relief Team is in Puerto Rico assessing food and water needs as Tropical Storm Ernesto makes its way through the northeast Caribbean. The storm brought heavy rainfall, flooding, and high winds to Puerto Rico, the Lesser Antilles, and the Virgin Islands. Ernesto is expected to become a hurricane as it heads north towards Bermuda.
Ernesto made landfall on Puerto Rico with winds just 4 miles per hour short of hurricane status. Governor Pedro Pierluisi has activated the National Guard amid reports of people stranded in homes and cars surrounded by floodwaters. Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses are without power after Ernesto wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico’s fragile electrical infrastructure. Eighty shelters have been opened to support displaced families.
WCK’s #ChefsForPuertoRico—whose roots date back to our Hurricane María response—prepared sandwiches as Ernesto made landfall and began to distribute them in impacted communities as soon as it was safe to do so.
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