'Longest week of our lives': Texas food banks in crisis as storm disrupts supplies

With grocery stores empty and school meals suspended, the need for food is soaring - even as weather forces pantries to close

Food banks in Texas have gone into disaster mode as they ramp up operations to tackle a surge in hunger after unprecedented freezing conditions disrupted almost every part of the food supply chain in the state.

Grocery stores are empty, school meal programs suspended, and deliveries disrupted by untreated treacherous roads that have left millions of Texans trapped in precarious living conditions with dwindling food supplies.