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Beer giant Anheuser-Busch stopped production at its Georgia brewery this week to instead produce drinking water for those affected by a deadly bout of historic flooding and storms in Texas and Oklahoma.
Anheuser-Busch said it had stopped beer production at its Cartersville brewery in Georgia late Wednesday night to produce 50,000 cans of water for the American Red Cross.
“Right now our production line is running emergency drinking water instead of beer,” Cartersville brewery manager Rob Haas told NBC News.
About 2,000 cases, each carrying 24 cans, are en route to communities in Texas and Oklahoma, he added. The water is expected to reach those areas within the next few days.
For those who may be unaware, there has been terrible flooding in parts of Texas and Oklahoma due to incredibly powerful storms.
Just how bad was it?
Heavy storms and floods in Texas and Oklahoma this week have left at least 25 people dead, more than a dozen missing, and thousands of homes damaged. The rainfall was enough to fully reverse a drought afflicting the area for the last five years, according to meteorologists.
That’s some scary stuff right there.
Anheuser-Busch is doing the right thing by donating their time and efforts to helping those affected by the floods. Hopefully this will only lead to more corporations in the future lending a hand to their customers when they need it the most.
H/T NBC