Jay Withey and others taking shelter worried they'd get into trouble. But officials called Withey's actions a “heroic” act of desperation.
DeMario Johnson and his mother, Addie Johnson, were also stranded near the Cheektowaga school. They were on their way to a relative’s house on Dec. 23 — escaping
The storm made it impossible for them to be rescued, emergency responders told them, so they and Addie’s 3-year-old Shih Tzu, DJ, spent the night inside their car. By the time Withey found them on Dec. 24, Addie Johnson, 71, didn’t think they’d make it out of the blizzard alive, her son told The Post.
“We just enjoyed that we had shelter, we had food and we had a new family,” Addie told The Post. “On Christmas morning, we all woke up and said Merry Christmas to everybody.”
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