Y'all know I love me a super hero story.
Nothing is more heroic than saving a life. So this is that times 20.
And two dogs.
During the Christmas Blizzard of 2022, Jay Withey ventured out to help a friend stuck in the snow. In the process, he got stuck himself. Stuck so bad that he came to a point where he feared for his life and started knocking on doors to be for shelter for the night. Despite offering $500 for the chance to crash on a floor, nobody would let him in.
By now he has two other people huddled in his truck, no gas left. There's too much snow for cops or firefighters to come and rescue them. It's cold enough outside that there's a real chance these folks are going to die.
This is one of those moments that define a person. Instead of giving up, he pulls up his phone's GPS and searches for any kind of shelter he can find. There's a school nearby and he decides that that's their only option.
He treks to the school and breaks in and gets the two strangers with him inside. Then he goes back out and finds another dozen plus people and a couple of dogs who are also stuck and in desperate need of shelter.
Twenty people who would have had to spend a night stuck in cars in killing cold, likely without heat, food or water.
Had one of those houses he begged for shelter from let him in, who knows what fate those people suffer?
The whole story is here. Read it. It might just be the best story of the year.
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