“I thought there would be that one time I may need it and I’d be glad I had it,” Cross told Tribune reporter Gary Lloyd.
Truer words have never been spoken.
On Tuesday, as the entire state of Alabama descended into the chaos of Snowmageddon, Cross started by giving a man a ride home from the Trussville Sports Complex. Then she took a couple home to another area of the city. Then, after making sure her daughters were safely home from school at around 4 p.m., she decided to go out and see if there were other people she could help.
6 hours later she had transported an incredible 104 people from abandoned cars to their homes.
Cross finally stopped at 10 p.m. when a gauge on her Suburban informed her that she only had one mile left before running out of gas.
“I was just a small part,” she said, in the understatement of the year.
Cross was awoken at 5 a.m. this morning by a friend who’d managed to reach her home by foot.
Unsurprisingly, she let him drive her Suburban home “as long as he didn’t drive more than the one mile of gas left in the tank.”
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