Buffalo couple feeds 130 strangers during blizzard on Christmas - Insider

• A Buffalo mates opened up the religion wherever they lived to provender and connection refuge to dozens of strangers.
• Al and Vivien Robinson initially planned to walk Christmas with their children.
• Instead, the mates fed immoderate 130 radical and acceptable up beds and mattresses to structure locals.

A mates successful Buffalo is being hailed arsenic heroes for feeding much than 100 radical during the blizzard that has left astatine slightest 39 dead.

Al Robinson is simply a pastor with the Spirit Of Truth Urban Ministry successful the Buffalo vicinity of Lovejoy. He and his woman Vivien unrecorded connected the religion campus.

Robinson told TODAY that helium and Vivien had initially planned to walk Christmas play with their 9 children, who were visiting from retired of town. They stocked up connected nutrient for their family, but upon learning of trapped residents successful their neighborhood, the mates decided to power plans.

"We had radical that were freezing to death," Robinson said.

The mates utilized their Facebook profiles and groups similar Buffalo Blizzard Response to promote locals to instrumentality structure astatine their church.

"Those that are stranded and stuck successful Lovejoy, we are offering structure present astatine the church. We bash not privation anybody to freeze," Robinson wrote connected his Facebook profile, on with the church's code and telephone number.

With the 2 weeks banal of nutrient they had, they were capable to provender astir 130 radical implicit the weekend.

"People were elderly. We had a 92-year-old that needed oxygen. We had 9-month-olds that needed formula. We had truthful galore things going connected and each 1 of those needs were met," Robinson told TODAY.

"I conscionable bash not privation anyone going hungry. God is shedding His grace connected my neighbors," Robinson wrote connected a Facebook station connected December 29.

In a Facebook video posted connected December 27, Robinson said helium delivered nutrient and babe look to radical who couldn't marque it to the religion due to the fact that of the acold weather. The mates besides acceptable up beds and mattresses successful the religion halfway to structure locals, per TODAY.

Tametha Ann Brookins, 1 of the locals the mates helped, expressed gratitude for donating nutrient to her family. 

"I'm successful tears. I've been feeling forsaken and mislaid anticipation successful the radical astir me," Brookins wrote connected the Buffalo Blizzard Response leafage connected December 28. "The bags of nutrient you dropped disconnected contiguous person relieved this fearfulness that I wasn't going to beryllium capable to provender myself oregon kids and I'm breathing easier today."

Robinson and Brookins did not instantly respond to Insider's requests for comment.

Robinson and Vivien aren't the lone bully Samaritans who helped their assemblage during the blizzard successful Buffalo.

Sha'Kyra Aughtry saved a disabled man's life erstwhile she heard him screaming for assistance extracurricular her home. She and her fellow spent 2 days caring for the antheral — who has been identified arsenic Joe White — until helium was yet sent to the hospital.

And an unidentified Buffalo resident, who has been dubbed "Jay" by Cheektowaga police, rescued strangers who were trapped successful cars.

"He near a enactment apologizing for the harm & usage of the snowfall blower helium utilized to marque a way to the school," Cheektowaga constabulary wrote connected Twitter connected 30 December. "We privation to convey "Jay" for his heroic actions that saved people's lives."