community through service food pantry in dumfries say they have seen nearly a 50% increase in the demand for help and it was almost overnight and they can't keep up with it. peggy fox has more. >> reporter: the a. x. e. food pantry serves 4,000 needy people per month but a 40% spike in demand emptied their shelves. >> this is the worst i've ever seen. and we were just -- couldn't even put together a basic bag. >> reporter: hungry people looking for a bag of food were turned away. >> it was heart-breaking. it was a very difficult decision to make having familying come up to the far -- families come up to the door because we don't have groceries to give them, it's very hard. >> reporter: part of the increase came from the 400 displaced people from the holly acres and village mobile home parks which were flooded out in tropical storm lee. >> follow we're feeding about 1,000 families a month coming in for assistance and now we have the tropical storm lee families coming in for