KANSAS CITY, Mo – Drivers navigating metro area roadways spent Christmas Day spinning their wheels.
Everywhere you looked, there were people trying to free their cars by pushing, shoveling, or even getting a nudge from snow-plow drivers.
Some drivers were lucky enough to bump into Harry Williams, a who spent the night clearing snow at businesses around the area. But instead of resting, Williams celebrated the holiday by putting his Jeep’s four-wheel drive to good use.
“I’m just going around trying to help anyone I can find,” he said while helping a stuck driver near Independence Avenue and Wabash in Kansas City. “It’s Christmas. They need to get out and get to their families so I gotta do what I can to help them out.”
Williams figured tow truck drivers had their hands full. He was right. By Friday evening, Santa Fe Tow Service told NBC Action News it had received more than 200 calls. However, because of road conditions, it had only been able to respond to about a third of those.
“It’s been nonstop,” said Steve Campbell, a driver with J Benfer’s Trucking, LLC. “The roads are terrible. I actually got my own truck stuck in the driveway this morning.”
It was such a mess on the roadways that the Domino’s Pizza at 39
th and Wyandotte stopped taking orders for the first time in seven years, according to delivery driver Ken Pruett, who was stuck in his car a few blocks away.
Another Good Samaritan showed up to pull Pruett out of his jam—a scenario repeated all over Kansas City on Christmas Day by Williams or anyone else with a shovel and a few minutes to help push.
