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Posted: 3:03 a.m. Friday, Nov. 2, 2012

Alpharetta group making 450K meals a day for Sandy victims

By Jon Lewis

The task of feeding the victims of Hurricane Sandy has fallen on the shoulders of an organization from Alpharetta.

The effort it will take is staggering. In fact, the North American Mission Board will have to fix 450,000 hot meals a day to feed Sandy’s victims. That’s enough to feed the entire city of Sacramento or Kansas City.

 “Even at the height of the Katrina response, we weren’t producing quite that many meals a day,” Mike Ebert with the North American Mission Board to News/Talk WSB.

That’s the most meals the group has had to make in more than 50 years of disaster relief.

Ebert says all of their mobile kitchens east of the Mississippi River are standing by, ready to move into the 13-state storm battered area.