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Mattress Mack Is Sending Dozens Of Trucks Loaded With Relief Supplies To Louisiana

August 31, 2021

A Houston furniture store owner has announced a massive relief effort to help families impacted by Hurricane Ida.

Jim McIngvale, who goes by "Mattress Mack", is known for opening the doors of his furniture stores to those in need.

Volunteers will be at his Gallery Furniture store in north Houston collecting donations Monday through Wednesday.

The GF Flood Truck is getting ready to head down to Louisiana to help our neighbors get through one of the worst Hurricanes since Katrina. You are in our prayers friends! Louisiana residents shelter at GF 6006 N. Freeway Free with LA ID. More details at https://t.co/QOKd0jCVKq pic.twitter.com/kVVkbEngzK

— @MattressMack (@MattressMack) August 29, 2021

"Our hearts go out for the residents of Louisiana, especially in New Orleans residents are getting hit by this terrible hurricane," McIngvale said.

"So on Monday at Gallery Furniture from eight to five in the afternoon, we're gonna have a giant drive. Looking for people to bring non-perishable foods, diapers, all the normal things for hurricanes and we're gonna get about 30 trucks and take them to Louisiana to help the people out and be doing that as long as the need's there. And we're also having Louisiana residents that evacuated to Houston sleep here free."

Watch the news report from Click 2 Houston below.