There were a lot of things anyone can do during a Typhoon. You can probably imagine someone very scared trying to hide under the bed waiting for the Storm to stop. Well, staff at a Mexican bakery chain in Houston, Texas have different things in mind.
Just recently, typhoon Harvey hits Texas, it flooded a huge area in Houston alone. Those staff at the Mexican Bakery were trapped inside the chain for two days and what have they done, is truly amazing.
No hurricane, typhoon, or tropical storm, in all of recorded history, has dropped as much water on a single major city as Hurricane Harvey. The National Weather Service has had to create a new scale to accurately depict how much rain has fallen, as a few locations have crested the three foot mark since the Hurricane first made landfall. Things aren't even done yet, as the eye of the storm has taken up residence right off of the Texas coast, and large swaths of the southwest will continue to experience unprecedented, heavy rains all throughout the week. While many weather professionals are calling this a "500-year-storm," indicating that there's only a 0.2% of a storm like this happening in a given year, the science of how a storm like this occurs is actually very straightforward.
While they were waiting for the eventual rescue that came Monday morning, four workers at El Bolillo Bakery’s South Wayside Drive branch decided to make as many loaves of bread as possible for their community. They knew that a lot of their neighbors are trapped as well.
As the flood waters rose in the streets outside, they took advantage of their continuing power supply and used more than 4,200 pounds of flour to create hundreds of loaves and sheets of pan dulce.
“By the time the owner managed to get to them, they had made so much bread that we took the loaves to loads of emergency centers across the city for people affected by the floods,” the store’s manager, Brian Alvarado claims.
HuffPost has reached out for more information on precisely how many loaves the staff created, but it’s clear from images the bakery shared on Facebook and Instagram that it was quite the haul.
Nevertheless, what they have done is truly inspiring, amazing and truly unbelievable ;-)
Cheerio!
Just recently, typhoon Harvey hits Texas, it flooded a huge area in Houston alone. Those staff at the Mexican Bakery were trapped inside the chain for two days and what have they done, is truly amazing.
No hurricane, typhoon, or tropical storm, in all of recorded history, has dropped as much water on a single major city as Hurricane Harvey. The National Weather Service has had to create a new scale to accurately depict how much rain has fallen, as a few locations have crested the three foot mark since the Hurricane first made landfall. Things aren't even done yet, as the eye of the storm has taken up residence right off of the Texas coast, and large swaths of the southwest will continue to experience unprecedented, heavy rains all throughout the week. While many weather professionals are calling this a "500-year-storm," indicating that there's only a 0.2% of a storm like this happening in a given year, the science of how a storm like this occurs is actually very straightforward.
While they were waiting for the eventual rescue that came Monday morning, four workers at El Bolillo Bakery’s South Wayside Drive branch decided to make as many loaves of bread as possible for their community. They knew that a lot of their neighbors are trapped as well.
As the flood waters rose in the streets outside, they took advantage of their continuing power supply and used more than 4,200 pounds of flour to create hundreds of loaves and sheets of pan dulce.
“By the time the owner managed to get to them, they had made so much bread that we took the loaves to loads of emergency centers across the city for people affected by the floods,” the store’s manager, Brian Alvarado claims.
HuffPost has reached out for more information on precisely how many loaves the staff created, but it’s clear from images the bakery shared on Facebook and Instagram that it was quite the haul.
Nevertheless, what they have done is truly inspiring, amazing and truly unbelievable ;-)
Cheerio!
