Tracy Hinson’s report for KSDK opens with a simple idea that feels more true every winter: help doesn’t always show up with applause, and sometimes it doesn’t show up on time at all.
In St. Louis’ Dogtown neighborhood, she says neighbors found themselves praising a man they didn’t even know at first – not because he posted a grand speech online, but because he showed up with a skid steer and started cutting paths through streets that were still tight, slushy, and hard to move through days after the storm.
Hinson tracked him down after videos started circulating, and what makes the story work is that it isn’t centered on a city plan or a big official announcement; it’s centered on one guy deciding that if the streets weren’t going to clear themselves, he was going to do something about it…