Volunteers from the Red Cross in Fort Worth left Tuesday morning to help people affected by flooding around Louisville, Kentucky. The Ohio River is expected to crest at more than 36 feet in Louisville on Wednesday, the highest in seven years.
Two volunteers left with supplies and an "emergency response vehicle" Tuesday.
"We're giving a little bit of hope, a little bit of hot food to people who are cleaning up their house, cleaning up their yard," Ronald Scott said.
Scott says they will serve hot meals to people cleaning up and at 14 shelters in Kentucky.
"We don't go in right away because power lines are down, roads are flooded," he said. "From a feeding standpoint, we go in when it's safe to drive around."
The Red Cross says more than two dozen volunteers from North Texas are currently helping in areas hit by severe weather and flooding in the Southeast and Midwest. Scott says volunteers from Texas are now helping them, but people from other regions come to Texas when we get hit with severe weather, hurricanes or wildfires.
"We deploy, we go for two weeks; that's our commitment. If it ends earlier, great. That means things on the ground are better than we thought," he says. "But sometimes these things go on for months."
The Red Cross says volunteers are currently working in 30 shelters across ten states. Through Tuesday morning, the organization says it had served 16,300 meals and snacks along with relief items.
More information about the non-profit is available at redcross.org. People can text "REDCROSS" to 90999 to make a $10 donation.