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Beer company stops production, cans water for flooding victims instead

Beer company stops production, cans water for flooding victims instead

On Wednesday, beer company Anheuser-Busch, the maker of major brands like Budweiser, Michelob ULTRA, Beck’s, Kirin and O'Doul’s, announced that it had stopped beer production at its Cartersville, Georgia, brewery in order to produce 50,000 cans of water instead.

“Right now our production line is running emergency drinking water instead of beer,” Cartersville brewery manager Rob Haas told NBC News.

About 2,000 cases of the emergency water are already on route to communities in Texas and Oklahoma most affected by the recent flooding. The water should reach those states in the next day or so.

Apparently this is nothing new. Three times a year, the Cartersville brewery produces cans of emergency relief water for the American Red Cross.

“It’s something we’re uniquely positioned to do in a very timely period,” Haas said.

In the wake of the devastation, more good news stories are emerging.

When overcrowded animals shelters took to social media for help, dozens of people showed up to temporarily take in lost animals.

An amateur drone pilot used his drone on two separate occasions to rescue four people who were stranded by the floodwaters.


A Wimberley, Texas, library set aside a room to dry out and display photographs found in the flooding debris, hoping to reunite flood victims with their “irreplaceable” mementos.

And two Good Samaritans used their truck to push seven or eight vehicles through Corpus Christi’s flooded streets.

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“If everyone did one thing nice for another, this world might be a better place,” said Leslie Reyes, who helped the drivers get to drier ground.