HOUSTON FLOOD: TRAPPED BAKERS SPEND TIME MAKING BREAD FOR COMMUNITY

It’s always nice to hear these stories in the middle of a disaster: the staff at a Mexican bakery chain in Houston, Texas, were stuck at their store for two days because of the flooding. While they were waiting for the eventual rescue that came Monday morning, the four workers at El Bolillo Bakery decided to make as many loaves of bread as possible for their community. The store still had power, so they used more than 4,200 pounds of flour to create hundreds of loaves of bread and sheets of Mexican patries (called pan dulce). After the streets had opened and they were able to leave, they took the loaves to emergency centers across the city.
* Where they were promptly met by ICE agents asking for their papers. No, just kidding!!!
* So instead of loafing, they spent their time loafing.
* Baked for two days. Or as Willie Nelson calls it, “a mellow weekend”.
(NOTE: The El Bolillo workers have lost homes, cars and valuables, and the owner has set up a gofundme site for them here: https://www.gofundme.com/el-bolillo-bakery-bakers)