awww.
i got something in both eyes.





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The story of how Sha’Kyra Aughtry saved Joe, a developmentally disabled man, from the blizzard appeared on the SweetBuffalo716 blog’s Facebook page and has caught the attention of people throughout Upstate New York and the world.


According to SweetBuffalo716, Aughtry heard Joe in distress and crying for help. With the help of her boyfriend they found Joe and her boyfriend carried him out of the snow bank and into their home early on Saturday, Christmas Eve.

“During the blizzard he must have gotten disoriented and he ended up North of where he lives. He didn’t have his gloves with him and with the windchills being what they were, his skin was burning and he was in real rough shape and he was crying,” said Ray Barker, the program director of North Park Theatre where Joe works.

Joe has been the custodian at the Western New York landmark on Hertel Ave. for over 40 years. SweetBuffalo716 reported his sister thinks he went there Thursday, got scared and stayed over, and then decided to walk back to his home.

Joe had been out in the storm so long that Aughtry, a mother of three, had to carefully remove his frozen clothing from his body, cutting his socks off and cutting the straps of a Wegmans bag from his badly frostbitten hands. She used a hairdryer to remove his pants, which were stuck to his skin.

Once his icy wardrobe was removed, Aughtry cleaned him up, fed him and covered him in warm blankets.



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