About 20 volunteers took the pallets of food off the trucks, made lanes for the cars to come through, helped direct traffic, and placed food in the trunks of hundreds of cars.
The Central Texas Food Bank held an emergency food distribution Monday evening in response to the elevated need because of the ice storm.
"The freeze wiped out all the food in the refrigerator," East Austin resident Robert Broussard said. "The freeze shut down my job site."
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