Over the course of two days in August 2016, Amanda Dornhorst and her husband Christian spent $1,840 of their own money buying and cooking barbecue for people who were affected by the Baton Rouge Flood that left at least thirteen people dead and has damaged about 40,000 homes.

Amanda and Christian, who live across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge, went to a local Sam’s Club and bought their first round of supplies.

The couple spent $850 buying chicken thighs, sausage, hotdogs and brisket.

The couple then seasoned the meat, hitched a smoker onto their truck and eventually ended up at Celtic Media Centre, which was used as a shelter for people who were evacuated and displaced due to the floods.

The Washington Post reports that Dornhorst served food all day Monday, cooking the chicken and sausage on small grills as 108 pounds of brisket sat in the smoker until 7 p.m. ^[0]