Homeowners Doug Condon Nadon and Nina Richardson checked on Timmons and tried to help get his Toyota Ravo 4 on the driveway, but it stopped. They invited him to wait for a tow truck inside his house.
“I’m just so lucky that this is where my car crashed,” Timms told CNN. “He was in his flower bed. He wasn’t in the pit. He wasn’t on the side of the road … I was stuck somewhere safe and warm.”
Bad weather lasts much longer than any of them thought. Five days later, Timmons was still living with the couple.
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Timmon, who lives three hours away in Houston, said he makes weekly trips to Austin because the delivery market there pays a little more. The 7-year-old took one last delivery on Sunday, missing the snow and thinking it would be time to deliver it home.
Waiting for a truck that never arrived
He struggled to drive to the hilly neighborhood at noon to deliver groceries, which was already a day late and included steaks for the couple’s planned Valentine’s Day dinner.
Timmons said from his hosts home in Tap Stein, “I was going down very slowly, remembering to tap my brakes.” “I taped more aggressively and it was still sliding. Just as I was sliding towards their house my heart broke and I just closed my eyes and just prayed that I didn’t hit these people’s house so that my car wouldn’t be damaged.” ” I just knew – knew for sure – it was my help if I hit their house. “
She texted the couple to let them stay there with their groceries and she stopped.
The driver came out and they tried to get his car off the driveway. Timson said she tried to wait in her car and called AAA to pull over, but Condo called her inside.
With no contact delivery, Timmons used sanitizing before and after removing the items, in addition to maintaining her distance by wearing a mask.
“They invited me inside and of course, at the time, I found it very annoying to come to a stranger’s house. But they were very kind.” “When they invited me, I sat in their kitchen with the mask for about two hours.”
She kept calling for two-truck updates and got back in her car waiting. A few hours later, the Towing Service said it would not be able to safely reach the area because of the storm, she said.
“As soon as we learned that AAA would not be able to come and the situation was getting worse, it was too silly to even imagine that she would go to the hotel.” “It didn’t happen to us either.”
Richardson and Condon Nade received their first Covid-19 vaccine just a week ago as part of Phase 1B. The couple said they would not let Timmons sit there in the cold.
Daytime turned to night and soon dinner was over for them. It was Valentine’s Day and the couple made a steak with blue cheese, broccoli and salad. It was a better meal than Timmons had imagined, she would get that night, he said.
“That’s exactly how I didn’t expect Valentine’s Day,” Tim said with a laugh. “We had a nice dinner and I sat down. I was warm, I was fed and it was just amazing and I thought it would only be for one night, but here I am, the fifth day.”
Meanwhile, Timmons learned that power had gone out of his apartment in Houston. If he had in fact made it home, he would have just lived there without power.
Every day, he would monitor the weather and Timmons and Condon Naden tried to make progress on his car. They paved small parts of the driveway and tried to make it a few inches behind.
“We were using a broom and a spade to be able to clear the driveway as successfully as we could,” said Condon Naden. “We thought we’ve cleaned enough for her to stay. She’s almost halfway through and stopped.”
He tried to say goodbye but the hosts insisted that he stay
Every time Timmons suggested getting a hotel room somewhere, the couple was worried about what situation they would find themselves in.
“‘Our guest bedroom is better than the Hampton Inn.’ “‘If you leave, what are you going to eat? Can you really make it all the way there? ‘”
As the days went on, the group became chimed in and it so happened that Timmons was the guest to stay in the couple’s spare bedroom.
“We had an exciting week with crazy weather and a wonderful guest, which turned out to be an enjoyable experience.”
The couple’s dogs, Crosby and Heidi, soon sat on Tim’s bed and started barking at him.
“She quickly became part of the family,” Richardson said.
Tims helped the couple prepare meals. Someone will boil the pasta and someone else will work on other parts of the meal, Richardson said.
Timms made a coconut cake to thank the couple. “We were the beneficiaries of her baking,” Condon told Nade.
For Condon Condon and Richardson, they hope other people would have done the same for a stranger who needed help.
“We hope that if our daughters were in the same situation as Chelsea, there would be someone who would treat them like Chelsea,” he said. “I don’t think we ever thought about it twice.”
The couple and Tim said they plan to stay in touch. On Friday, the weather was fine and Tim made it safely home in Houston on a sunny sunny day.
“I’m so grateful that they were able to get a complete stranger into their home in the midst of a hurricane, without any hesitation, in the midst of an epidemic, but weren’t ready,” Timnos said. “They just opened their doors, opened the house and said, ‘Come in and relax.’
He said, “I am so grateful for them and so glad I got out of all the driveways in the world right here.”
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