Travis Scott gives 50,000 meals to Texas snowstorm victims

• American rapper Travis Scott gave food assistance to Houston residents hit by the recent snowstorm.
• Around 50,000 hot meals were given with Travis’ assistance program in partnership with his foundation and Mayor Sylvester Turner.
• The winter storm left millions of Texas residents with no water and electricity supplies.

To help in the Texas freeze weighed much for Travis Scott that he provided emergency food assistance amid the pandemic.

Travis and his Cactus Jack Foundation partnered with Mayor Sylvester Turner to launch a food assistance program for Houston residents, providing approximately 50,000 hot meals to the community.

The 28-year-old Grammy-nominated rapper (né Jacques Bermon Webster II) was a Houston native.

Relief efforts from Travis and his foundation will even expand by coordinating with restaurant owners and organizations, such as The Black Service Chamber and The National Association of Christian Churches (NACC).

At-risk Houston residents who live in one of 30 high-priority ZIP codes identified by the City of Houston, as well as senior citizens, homebound adults, disabled people, low-earners, and families with children under 18 years old would also be greatly supported by the partnership.

Winter Storm Uri, officially named as the North American Winter Storm, took place from February 13 to February 17, causing heavy snowfall and subzero temperatures across Texas.

Causing severe infrastructure damages, the blizzard also left millions of Texans without supplies of water and electricity.

According to the National Weather Service, the snowstorm brought record low temperatures, ice and snow to more than 25 states, spanning more than 2,000 miles between south Texas and northern Maine.

On February 17, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas restored electricity for more than 600,000 affected clients.

The Texas Commission of Environmental Quality said that nearly 8.8 million people were still under boil-water orders as of Monday. Meanwhile NBC News reported that 120,000 people still had no water service at all.

In Houston and Austin, boil-water notices were issued last week. Public health officials advised communities to limit the use of local water sources and avoid drinking faucet water for safety reasons. There might be harmful bacteria, including COVID-19 viruses, in the water, which posed higher health risks to the residents given the ongoing pandemic.

Previously, Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Health Equity Response Force identified high-priority ZIP codes in Houston: 77003, 77004, 77009, 77011, 77012, 77016, 77020, 77021, 77022, 77026, 77028, 77029, 77033, 77036, 77040, 77045, 77051, 77053, 77060, 77071, 77072, 77074, 77076, 77078, 77081, 77087, 77088, 77091, 77093 and 77099.

Source: PEOPLE.com