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With the storm approaching, what about those Floridians who need a little extra help to put food on the table? Second Harvest of Central Florida’s Greg Higgerson says about a million pounds of emergency food supplies are ready to go for Dorian.

“We’re talking about pallets of water, Meals Ready to Eat, MREs, we even begin building what we call our family boxes, so these are disaster boxes that weigh about 35 pounds each, and have roughly a 3 or 4 day supply of food.”

“As the emergency food supply for the community we really are called on in an over and above way during a storm recovery.”

Higgerson says a million pounds of food may sound like a lot, but it could go quickly.

“We’ve seen distributions of three million pounds or more after hurricanes. If we need more than that, we will rely on the Feeding America network of foodbanks around the country, as well as the local community, those who can help, to provide the extra help.”