Vehicles line up before dawn for San Antonio food bank


Thousands of vehicles lined up before dawn Thursday to seek aid from the San Antonio Food Bank.

The agency fed about 10,000 households at a South Side flea market amid the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

"It was a rough one today," said Food Bank president and CEO Eric Cooper after the largest single-day distribution in the nonprofit's 40-year history. "We have never executed on as large of a demand as we are now."

Express-News photographers William Luther and Kin Man Hui captured the scene Thursday. above are their photos

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plaindealer:
Many Nigeria s wail, cry, mona and complain, but some of us have a lot to be thankful for because we are not spending 6-10 hours standing in line for food.

giftedben:
Nigerian leaders would have hidden this food items in their warehouse.
The way they did covid 19 palliatives.

JeffreyD1:


You're not serious sir

Let them announce that they want to share food to less privileges in Nigeria let's see how the queue will be like

You self will be there

plaindealer:
I expect many of you to keep wailing and keep coming up with irrelevant wailing, covid or pandemic or not, there's always bee serious poverty, food shortages and hunger in America, too bad many of you don't know or just not exposed enough to know.

realstars:
Yet They Are Still Better Than Us.

Simplyleo:

That's not the point.

Nigerians will queue for food if such opportunity is made available. FACT.

Nigerians buoyant enough to own exotic private cars may not even go, not to talk of queuing with their cars for hours.

Nigerian govt may not have made such public declaration either due to non availability or corruption, whichever suits your purpose.

But now, the point is; is this willingness to queue for food due to LACK peculiar to Nigeria?

Obviously not.

And indeed, US of all places, arguably the richest country in the world in terms of state resources. As we all know, US is a country viewed as perfect by many Black especially Nigerians struggling with issues bordering on complex.

That is the message.

JeffreyD1:


You're not serious sir

Let them announce that they want to share food to less privileges in Nigeria let's see how the queue will be like

You self will be there

Simplyleo:

Let them keep deceiving themselves.

The message is clear, but due to self deception, they will rather start talking about corruption by leaders.

The message is; is food shortage peculiar to Nigeria? Is it only in Nigeria that citizens are willing to queue for food due to lack?

Let them shift from the message and by typing garbage because it is Trump's country.

Simplyleo:

Let them keep deceiving themselves.

The message is clear, but due to self deception, they will rather start talking about corruption by leaders.

The message is; is food shortage peculiar to Nigeria? Is it only in Nigeria that citizens are willing to queue for food due to lack?

Let them shift from the message and by typing garbage because it is Trump's country.

Rossntti:
Everything points to things getting worse in America.

These food lines could be just the beginning.

The way Trump and his millions of supporters are refusing to accept defeat at the polls spells all sorts of trouble for that country.

There is talk of civil war in the divided nation.

Plus the covid scamdemic is leading to thousands of shut businesses and lost incomes.

Biden's entry will increase the number and scope of lockdowns, and further tank the economy.

plaindealer:
I expect many of you to keep wailing and keep coming up with irrelevant wailing, covid or pandemic or not, there's always bee serious poverty, food shortages and hunger in America, too bad many of you don't know or just not exposed enough to know.

plaindealer:
Many Nigerians wail, cry, mona and complain, but some of us have a lot to be thankful for because we are not spending 6-10 hours standing in line for food.

plaindealer:
Many Nigerians wail, cry, mona and complain, but some of us have a lot to be thankful for because we are not spending 6-10 hours standing in line for food.

plaindealer:
I expect many of you to keep wailing and keep coming up with irrelevant wailing, covid or pandemic or not, there's always bee serious poverty, food shortages and hunger in America, too bad many of you don't know or just not exposed enough to know.

Simplyleo:

That's not the message.

US is better than many developed countries.

Meanwhile, Nigeria is a developing country.

plaindealer:



What is this one talking about?

Sharing food in Nigeria or long food line in Nigeria is not the point, the point is hunger and in America and thousands of people lining up and spending house in food line in America.

Joe Igbokwe is right, many Americans can not afford a plate of rice and definitely not 50 kg of rice.

I thank God for my life that I'm not hungry or lack access to food so i don't see myself standing in food line in Nigeria, in america or anywhere on the surface of the earth. I thank God and to God be the glory.

plaindealer:



What is this one talking about?

Sharing food in Nigeria or long food line in Nigeria is not the point, the point is hunger and in America and thousands of people lining up and spending house in food line in America.

Joe Igbokwe is right, many Americans can not afford a plate of rice and definitely not 50 kg of rice.

I thank God for my life that I'm not hungry or lack access to food so i don't see myself standing in food line in Nigeria, in america or anywhere on the surface of the earth. I thank God and to God be the glory.