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Phillips 66 provides financial support to the nonprofit for disaster relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The big picture:<\/strong> Hurricane Beryl slammed the Texas Gulf Coast on July 8 as a Category 1 storm, knocking out power to nearly 3 million homes and businesses. Many residents endured days without power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zoom in: <\/strong>Armed with a fleet of cooks, mobile pits, kitchens and volunteers, Operation BBQ Relief served nearly 34,000 meals in Lake Jackson, Texas, a hard-hit community an hour southwest of Houston and just 20 miles from the Phillips 66 Sweeny Refinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Phillips 66 employees volunteered at Lake Jackson and helped deliver meals to other Houston-area communities in need.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Operation BBQ Relief\u2019s outreach in southeast Texas attracted volunteers from nine different states, who endured sweltering temperatures to provide hot meals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The organization also responded in Perryton, Texas, in 2023 when a tornado struck the small Panhandle town near the Phillips 66 Borger Refinery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zoom out:<\/strong> Operation BBQ Relief was founded in 2011 after a tornado hit Joplin, Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul 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