PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Portsmouth-based disaster relief organization Mercy Chefs is on the ground providing aid to Nepal after a terrifying flash flood on Wednesday left more than 800 people dead and more than 3,000 missing.
Mercy Chefs is used to helping people in their most desperate times, but they say the scale of the flooding in Nepal is far out of the ordinary.
“Our team is very experienced, and they’ve seen a lot, and we’re hearing words like ‘indescribable,’ ‘unfathomable,'” said founder of Mercy Chefs Gary LeBlanc, in an interview with 10 on Your Side’s Angela Bohon…