Facebook helps good Samaritan rescue pregnant woman in freezing Atlanta storm

www.today.com/tech/facebook-helps-good-samaritan-rescue-pregnant-woman-freezing-atlanta-storm-2D12019300

Keith Wagstaff
Jan. 29, 2014

In snowy Atlanta, stranded drivers are sending a social media SOS.

One of those messages was received by Craig Catalfu, a 25-year-old who was looking to help some of the thousands of drivers stranded on the icy streets of the city after a winter storm passed through.

Late Tuesday night, he posted a message on SnowedOutAtlanta, a Facebook group that has attracted more than 46,000 members in less than one day, where people ask and offer everything from rides to food to moral support. Little did he know that he would end up guiding a woman who was eight-months pregnant through the dark and back to her husband only hours before sunrise.

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Around 2 a.m., he drove his all-wheel drive Ford Edge to where the I-285 meets the I-75 and discovered a scene that he described to NBC News as a "parking lot." Cars were left abandoned on the interstate, some parked sideways or up against each other.

"I'm from Pennsylvania, and I have seen weather like this, but I have never seen so much utter chaos," Catalfu, who moved to Atlanta two years ago, told NBC News.

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