(KAIR) -- The local American Red Cross is sending volunteers and an Emergency Response Vehicle to help prepare for Hurricane Sandy.
Hurricane Sandy is barreling toward the East Coast and the American Red Cross is launching a national response to help the millions of people who may be in the path of the storm.
Local volunteers left Saturday. Joe Sorrento, St. Joseph, is going to Princeton, New Jersey to set up the mass care feeding operation.
Robert Gergeni, St. Joseph, and William King, Stewartville, will be going to Albany, New York and operate evacuation shelters in the state of New York.
Shoba Brown, Maryville, and Judy Crane, Hopkins, will be driving an Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) across country from St. Joseph.
The ERV will support feeding operations in shelters and neighborhoods and be used to distribute food and emergency supplies.
Weather experts predict the massive storm could affect residents up and down the eastern region of the United States for several days and the Red Cross is working with government officials and community partners to coordinate a wide-ranging response.
Sandy is expected to bring as much as ten inches of rain and flooding in some areas, winds gusting up to 80 miles per hour, extended power outages and even several feet of snow in the higher elevations.
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