Woman Saves Man Caught in Terrible Blizzard Crying for Help, His Hands Frozen Into Fists

The ideal 🎄Christmas, for many, is time spent with family and friends inside, out of the elements, safe and warm and fed.

For Sha’Kyra Aughtry and her family, 🎄Christmas 2022’s theme had a name: Joe White.

The family from Buffalo, 🗽New York, was experiencing the incredible blizzard 🎄Christmas Eve safe inside their home when Aughtry heard a heartbreaking sound. Someone was crying for help, and when she looked out the window, she saw a man bent over, in pain in the freezing weather and brutal wind, knee-deep in the snow.

Aughtry had her boyfriend bring the man inside, where they assessed the damage and tried to make him as comfortable as possible.

His name was Joe White. He was 64 years old, but developmentally he functioned like a 10-year-old. He lived at a nearby group home and worked at the local theater but he’d gotten trapped in the storm after getting disoriented, and his hands had frozen closed around the bags he’d been carrying.