HOLIDAY, Fla. (WFLA) — For many across the Tampa Bay region, this Thanksgiving is different after back-to-back hurricanes left millions of dollars in damage and countless families displaced.

The last time we saw Robert Luke was right after Hurricane Helene sent feet of storm surge into his business in Port Richey.

“It’s everything that I know, it’s all that we have,” he said.

Two months later, Robert and his family are giving back to their community, one turkey at a time.

“They pulled three all-nighters; they’ve been cooking for three straight days,” Robert said.

It wasn’t an easy task.

After losing everything, Robert wanted to give back this Thanksgiving but didn’t know how.

So he went to Ryan Burke for help.

“After he got impacted by the storm and lost his first location, he came to me and wanted to give away turkeys after losing everything he had,” he explained.

Burke then pointed to his daughter and said, “This one here said, ‘Why don’t we give away turkeys to everybody?”

So the company Burke works for, Lantern Specialty Care, donated $50,000 to purchase hundreds of turkeys.

That’s when Robert’s family jumped in and got to work.

Together they helped a community still reeling from being hit with back-to-back hurricanes.

“We’re seeing folks that are being put up in hotels by FEMA that don’t have anything, no kitchen, to folks that washed out and are rebuilding,” Burke explained.

Hurricanes aside, some everyday people needed this.

Evelyn Casabella is experiencing her first Thanksgiving without her father.

“We lost our family member,” she said. “We lost my dad, so it’s our first year.”

“We’re not cooking, [and] we’re not getting together,” Casabella continued. “I saw it on Facebook and I jumped on the opportunity because I just wasn’t up to doing it myself this year.”

Whether you’ve lost someone or just need a little help, there were plenty of turkeys to go around.

“It means everything for sure,” Giovanni Ramirez explained. “Sometimes to just have food, the family together, especially in hard times, it can mean a lot just to spend time with each other.”

That joy is why Robert said, it was all worth it.

“Regardless of whatever materialistic things I’ve lost in my life, I’ve been to the bottom, I’ve been homeless, I was a drug addict when God has a bigger picture for you, smaller things keep you content,” Robert explained. “Seeing people happy is enough for me today.”