Courtney Shelley, 44, saw the urgent call for help pop up around 6 a.m. Wednesday on his NextDoor app, which he uses to connect with neighbors in Stone Mountain.
A woman was seeking help for her 30-year-old son, who had been stranded on the road all night as temperatures dipped below 20 degrees.
Luckily, Shelley’s home is just a 10-minute walk from the man’s location, and he volunteered to help.
As Shelley made the treacherous ice walk, he counted more than a dozen cars stuck on the road.
“I could hardly even walk,” Shelley, who owns a landscaping tree service, said. “I tread through the grass and walked through so that I could have traction with the snow compared to the ice. Cars were stuck everywhere.”
-When he located the car, the man was huddled underneath a blanket in the driver’s seat, with the heater turned up.
“I gave him a bottle of water and some crackers and allowed him to call his mom,” Shelley said.
