BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — St. Luke's Mission of Mercy volunteers were forced to pivot their community Thanksgiving dinner preparations this morning after learning last night's storm had knocked out power at their facility.

When our cameras arrived at St. Lukes Thursday morning, the hall that would soon serve hundreds was dark. There was no power to operate any of the equipment in the kitchen, no ovens, no stove, nothing.

"When we got over here this morning, we found out that there was power in the school, but not complete power, and we were without our ovens," explained Dennis Gilhooley, interim director of St. Luke's Mission of Mercy.

Volunteers had no choice but to walk all of the food across the street to be heated at a separate facility that still had power.

"We've been walking pans b

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