When four bakers at El Bolillo Bakery in Houston, Texas went to leave after a late shift last weekend, they realized that rising flood waters on the streets had trapped inside the South Wayside Drive shop.
Since the bakery, which specializes in Mexican cakes and pan dulce sweet bread, was dry and still had electricity, the four men decided to work through the night and day after to bake bread for those whose lives had been devastated by the storm.
"When they realized they were stuck, they decided to keep themselves busy and help the community and made as many loaves of bread as they could," Brian Alvarado, the manager of the shop on South Wayside Drive, told The Independent. "By the time the owner managed to get to them, they had made so much bread that we took the loaves to loads of emergency centers across the city for people affected by the floods."
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While they didn't count the exact number of loaves they had baked, Alvarado said that they used 4,400 pounds of flour. (That sack of flour you have your cupboard is probably somewhere around five pounds, so you do the math.)
The bakery's Facebook post about the bakers' kind deed has gone viral with over 4,000 shares and hundreds of comments praising their thoughtfulness and compassion.
One commenter called them "baking heroes" while another commended them for "thinking of others at a horrible time."
While the home of one of the four bakers had flood damage, per Alvarado, the other three men were lucky to return to find their homes dry.
Since many of the bakery's other employees have also lost their "cars, homes and valuables" the bakery's owner, Kirk Michaelis, has created a GoFundMe campaign and promised to make sure the funds would only be used to help those men and women rebuild their lives.
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