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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 12:10 PM Jan 2016

Shivering homeless man finds warmth in strangers' kindness


A teenage girl hopped out of a car at a red light as the snow pelted down, and handed a red wool blanket to a stranger.

"God bless you," said Shawn Harmon, who held his dog's leash in one hand and a sign that read "need work!" in the other.

"You two try to stay warm," 19-year-old Michelle Smith told him. She leaned down and rubbed the wet, shivering dog, then hurried back to her car before the light turned green.

Harmon and Tucker, a bluenose pitbull, stood at this intersection for hours, despite the freezing temperatures and a blizzard expected to dump between 4-7 inches of snow in Louisville by midnight Friday. Other parts of the state and East Coast were staring at potentially 2 feet of snow.




teenager doing good (warms my heart):
Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/latest-news/article56156360.html#storylink=cpy
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