Mercy Chefs delivers hot meals following Oklahoma Tornadoes

BARNSDALL, Ok. (NewsNation) – Mercy Chefs is working to deliver hot meals to communities flattened by recent storms in Oklahoma.

Chef Gary LeBlanc, co-founder of Mercy Chefs, told NewsNation, our team has provided between 3,000 and 4,000 meals in the aftermath of damaging storms in Sulphur and Barnsdall.

“I went down in the aftermath of (Hurricane) Katrina, and I thought there was a better way to feed people in the aftermath of a disaster,” LeBlanc told NewsNation. “You can love people with all the professionalism that a chef can muster.”

Our team served up plates of “beautiful comfort food,” like tacos, chicken pot pie, smoked brisket and homemade desserts while residents work to clean up debris.

“Yesterday, as I rode through town handing out meals, there was not a person I met that didn’t have red, puffy eyes,” LeBlanc told NewsNation. “They were just cried out yesterday, and you could tell they were still hurting. And that happens over and over and over.”

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