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HAPPENED.
PEOPLE WITH BIG HEARTS HELPING
OUT.
I WANT TO BRING IN OF THEM.
ZACH AND SAM.
APPARENTLY YOU GUYS WERE
DELIVERING HOT CHOCOLATE TO THE
FOLKS WHO WERE STRANDED FOR HOUR
AFTER HOUR AFTER HOUR WHAT DID
YOU GUYS DO?
>> SORRY.
SAY THAT AGAIN.
>> TELL ME WHAT YOU DID.
WHERE DID YOU GO?
HOW CLOSE WERE YOU TO THE
HIGHWAY?
WHERE DID YOU GET THE HOT
CHOCOLATE?
HOW DID YOU HEAT IT UP?
ALL THINGS LIKE THAT.
DETAILS.
>> WE LIVE BETWEEN TWO MAJOR
HIGHWAYS.
WE WERE JUST LOOKING DOWN ON
TRAFFIC SIPPING HOT CHOCOLATE
OURSELVES.
WE RAN BACK TO OUR APARTMENTS
AND STARTED MAKING SOME HOT
CHOCOLATE.
>> WE HAD A BUNCH OF COCOA AND
THE BIG THERMAL CANISTERS.
WE FILLED THEM BOTH UP AND WENT
DOWN AND STARTED PASSING THEM
OUT.
>> YOU HAD TO BRING SOME SMILES
TO FOLKS LAST NIGHT.
RIGHT?
BUT I'M SURE THEY WERE NOT IN
GOOD MOODS WHEN YOU FIRST
APPROACHED THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE
SITTING IN TRAFFIC HOUR AFTER
HOUR AFTER HOUR.
>> RIGHT.
YEAH.
IT WAS CRAZY.
THOSE PEOPLE STOOD JUST IN PLACE
FOR HOURS, MAYBE TRAVELED TEN
FEET.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE SAYING, YOU
MADE OUR DAY, YOU MADE OUR DAY,
AND IT'S KIND OF THE OLD YOU GET
MORE THAN -- OR YOU RECEIVE MORE
THAN YOU GIVE AND IT WAS A REAL
BLESSING FOR US JUST TO GET TO
SEE A SMILE ON PEOPLE'S FACES
AND JUST KIND OF --
>> HE WE WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES
OUT THERE HELPING EITHER.
THERE WAS A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE
PUSHING CARS AND WE WERE HELPING
WITH THAT WHATEVER WE COULD, DO.
WE SAW A COMMUNITY COME
TOGETHER.
IT WAS GREAT.
>> WERE YOUR WIVES STRANDED?
>> YES.
MY WIFE WAS IN TRAFFIC FOR NINE
HOURS.
SHE WAS JUST COMING FROM SOUTH
OF 20 AND I ACTUALLY -- WE --
THIS MORNING WE WALKED FOUR
MILES DOWN 75, ON 75 TO GO PICK
HER UP FROM A CHURCH WHERE SHE
STAYED THE NIGHT.
>> UNBELIEVABLE.
WHAT'S THE CRAZIEST THING THAT
YOU SAW HAPPEN LAST NIGHT?
>> PROBABLY THE SAME PEOPLE.
>> YEAH.
PEOPLE JUST FOR HOURS IN THE
SAME PLACE.
CAR AFTER CAR DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO
DRIVE ON ICE AND PEOPLE WERE
GETTING OUT OF THEIR CARS TO
HELP PUSH OTHER CARS UP HILLS.
WE HAD HAD BEEN TALKING TO
PEOPLE WHO HAD JUST THE LONGEST
JOURNEYS --
>> YEAH.
PEOPLE GOING TO ATHENS AND STILL
HAD BEEN ON THE ROAD FOR LIKE
FIVE HOURS.
>> ONE LADY SAID SHE HAD BEEN ON
THE ROAD FOR THREE OR FOUR HOURS
AND SHE COULD STILL SEE THE
BUILDING SHE LEFT.
>> DID ANYONE LEAVE THEIR CARS?
WERE THERE ABANDONED CARS ON THE
HIGHWAYS?
>> MOST DEFINITELY.
>> THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF
ABANDONED CARS.
YOU CAN'T GET ON TO OUR EXIT
NOW.
WE WERE WALKING DOWN 75.
YOU CAN'T GET ON TO OUR EXIT
BECAUSE OF ABANDONED CARS.
>> YEAH.
THERE'S SO MANY CARS PILED UP.
>> OVERALL YOU GUYS GOT HOME
THOUGH.
WERE YOU HOME ALREADY OR HOW IS
IT THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO HELP
SNV.
>> WE WERE HOME ALREADY.
THAT'S THE THING.
WE HAD THE DAYS OFF.
BOTH OF OUR WIVES WERE WORKING.
WE'RE NEIGHBOR IN THE SAME
COLLECTION.
WE HANG OUT ALL THE TIME.
WE WERE JUST HANGING OUT, KIND
OF ENJOYING THE SNOW.
THEN WE SAW ALL THE TRAFFIC DOWN
THERE AND THOUGHT, YOU KNOW
WHAT?
WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING.
SO WE DID.
>> HOW WERE PEOPLE DEALING WITH
IT HOUR AFTER HOUR?
WERE PEOPLE TURNING ENGINES OFF
TO TRY TO CONSERVE THEIR GAS?
HOW EXACTLY WERE PEOPLE TRYING
TO MANAGE A SITUATION THAT THEY
DIDN'T KNOW HOW LONG THEY WERE
GOING TO BE OUT THERE?
YEAH.
WE TALKED TO ONE GUY TODAY WHO
HE SAID HE IS AN EX-MILITARY GUY
AN HE WOULD RUN HIS ENGINE FOR
45 MINUTES, CUT IT OFF.
HE SLEPT IN HIS CAR ALL NIGHT.
HE'D RUN IT FOR 45 MINUTES, CUT
IT OFF FOR 45 MINUTES, BACK ON
45 MINUTES.
A LOT OF PEOPLE DID RUN OUT OF
GAS.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WALKING TO GAS
STATIONS, CONVENIENCE STORES,
THAT WERE GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO
STAY OPEN THROUGH THE NIGHT.
>> I'VE BEEN READING A LOT OF
ANGER ON TWITTER AN OTHER
PLACES.