Winter Storm 2021

Austin family welcomes delivery driver into home for days during winter storm

Chelsea Timmons stayed for five days until conditions improved.

KVUE — For nearly a week, Chelsea Timmons became an impromptu member of an Austin family.

Timmons, a grocery delivery driver, was delivering her last order for H-E-B on Sunday, February 14, when her car got stuck due to the ice that has blanketed the Austin area for days.

Doug Condon and Nina Richardson tried to get her car out through a variety of methods, but it wasn't going anywhere – and, apparently, neither was she.

The couple welcomed her into their home.

"I kind of come to them with an exit strategy every morning during breakfast and every morning during breakfast, they're just like, 'No. Just stay.' And then Doug even this morning was like, 'Look, you can do what you want but you don't have to leave. Just don't feel pressured,'" Timmons said.

In a now-viral Facebook post, Timmons said the couple "basically have refused to let me leave" and that every morning when they said she could stay a bit longer, she would "go to 'my' room and shed tears of joy."

"Their home still has water and power so we are clean and warm. They have groceries (I know, I delivered them) so we are fed," Timmons wrote. "How AMAZINGLY BLESSED am I right in this moment?!"

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Alamo Drafthouse starts layoffs for corporate and theater employees

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At least 15 employees have been laid off.

Popular Austin-based movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse has started a series of layoffs impacting employees across the company.

On Wednesday, Drafthouse confirmed that 15 people were laid off at the corporate level. A spokesperson did not say how many hourly staff members at theaters are being let go.

The theater chain has 35 locations across 25 U.S. cities.

On Wednesday, KVUE spoke with an employee who was laid off.

"This is just shocking, and it feels, it feels very – I don't want to say dehumanizing, but it feels very horrible," said former employee Lily Stone, who was recently laid off. "Alamo is one of those companies, working there, having Alamo as a workplace, it's one of those places [where] it doesn't feel like work because it feels like family."

In June, Sony bought Alamo Drafthouse for $200 million. A spokesperson said the current layoffs are not tied to the acquisition.

Read the full story and watch the video at KVUE.com.

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