Sha’Kyra Aughtry doesn’t usually sleep on her couch.
The story of his the rescue of Joey White, by a stranger who found him outside her house on the morning of Christmas Eve as the worst blizzard in Buffalo’s history raged outside, has gone viral.
But for some reason last Dec. 23, as the blizzard blasted Western New York, she dozed off on the couch of the living room.
It was still dark when she awoke to a strange sound outside her home on Thatcher Avenue in the city’s LaSalle neighborhood.
Aughtry looked out her front window and a shadowy figure stumbling in the snow.
So she ran to her boyfriend, and, against his advice, they went outside and pulled the half-frozen man into their house.
It was clear he had been out in the storm all night long. He had no gloves and his hands were covered in balls of ice. A Wegmans shopping bag was frozen into his arm.
He said his name was “Joe.”
And that is how one of the most remarkable stories to emerge from the Buffalo Blizzard of 2022 began.
The story of how Aughtry, a janitorial manager, saved Joey White, a 64-year-old developmentally disabled man who had gotten lost trying to get to his job at the North Park Theatre on Hertel Avenue, went viral.
…
Read the full article here
Leave a Reply