Chefs from José Andrés' World Central Kitchen are helping cook meals for those in shelters and warming centers on Cape Cod, as tens of thousands remain without electricity in the aftermath of Monday's historic blizzard.
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Or, if you have 108 minutes of free time on your hands today,An international emergency food relief agency is on Cape Cod today to help prepare meals for people affected by Monday’s monster storm. WBUR’s Deborah Becker reports that chefs from World Central Kitchen are helping cook meals for those in shelters and warming centers, as thousands on the Cape remain without electricity. The nonprofit,, is known for its work helping in the wake of natural disasters and in war-torn places like Ukraine and Gaza. Now, they’re, working with the nonprofit Family Table Collaborative to provide food. The collaborative’s executive director, Jeni Wheeler, told Deb they expect to serve 5,000 to 6,000 daily meals over the next few days.is around 160,000 this morning. That's down from nearly 300,000 at the peak of the storm. At one point, there were 150,000 outages on Cape Cod alone. Zoom in: Some Outer Cape communities, like Provincetown, had gone 100% without power for over 24 hours. Town Manager Alex Morse told WBUR's Fausto Menard that dozens of people have been sleeping overnight in Provincetown's community center. Morse said Eversource crews have had a tough time accessing power lines, but he's hoping for more progress today."Because the storm didn't hit western Mass and New Hampshire and Connecticut as hard as they expected, they're able to shift more resources to the Cape," he said yesterday."But we're hoping that turns into seeing some restoration in the near future, because we see a crew here and there. But we haven't seen as much of a presence as we want to see."yesterday at noon. However, she urged people in hard-hit areas to continue to stay home if possible to allow crews to work. Boston Public Schools are also reopening today. But you don't have to drive too far south before you run into communities on their third straight snow day. Schools in Quincy, Brockton, Randolph, Plymouth, Weymouth and all up and down the South Shore and Cape are closed today.. The Republican governor broke the news yesterday, saying she personally spoke with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about it during a trip to Washington, D.C., last week.P.S.— Snow is back in the forecast today, but fortunately a lot less than Monday. Danielle Noyes has the details on the relative dusting many of us will get How Cape Cod and southeastern Mass. are coping after Monday's monster blizzard
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