Early on the morning of Monday, August 29, 2005, the most intense hurricane in recorded U.S. history roared out of the Gulf of Mexico and slammed into the Mississippi coast with winds in excess of 130 miles an hour and an estimated 40-foot tidal surge. Our town of Waveland, according to USA TODAY, “vanished,” as did numerous communities up and down the coast. New Orleans was spared this initial disaster but, within days, the levees gave way and the city soon flooded.
How do you feed people when there is no safe food or refrigeration, no water or sanitation, no kitchens and no way to get into the disaster areas?