A scrappy group of Houston-area bakers found themselves trapped in their bakery as Hurricane Harvey bore down on east Texas. So they did what bakers do: They baked.

And baked. And baked.

For two straight days, seven employees at El Bolillo Bakery baked bread as Harvey's heavy rains flooded the streets outside.

"They started making bread and Saturday night it rained so bad that they got trapped," said owner Kirk Michaelis. They took it upon themselves to ride out the storm by baking.

"They knew it was going to be needed," Michaelis said.

The crew was stuck inside from Saturday afternoon to Monday afternoon, baking thousands of loaves of bread, including the store's signature bolillo bread, a torpedo-shaped loaf similar to a french baguette.

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The crew boxed and bagged the bread, delivering it to shelters, first responders and churches once it was safe. Since the storm hit, the bakers who can make it to work— aside from the dozen sidelined by Harvey's destruction— have been baking around the clock.

Of the about 25,000 pounds of flour they've used since Saturday, 5,000 pounds was used to make donated bread.

Locals have lined up around the corner to support the bakery as it continues to churn out bread for victims and first responders of Harvey. Michaelis finds it difficult to describe the outpouring he's received from the Houston community.

"There's so many people doing so much more than we are," he said. "It's hard to put into words because we're not doing it to publicize. We're just doing it to try to be positive and help."

The marathon baking session thrust El Bolillo into the national spotlight and, briefly, the Mexican bakery found itself in the middle of a political squabble.

Former Mexican president Vicente Fox, a frequent critic of President Trump, tweeted a photo of the El Bolillo bakers with a sharp missive for the commander-in-chief.

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