Sweet video shows man bond with 98-year-old neighbor during ice storm: 'He just needed company'

More than 170,000 people were without power in Nashville on Monday, as a major ice storm wreaked havoc on the country.

Nashville resident Carlos Whittaker said he was prompted to check on his 98-year-old neighbor, Grey, during the power outage after he noticed the man sitting alone in his car on Monday morning with his headlights on, not moving.

Footage filmed by Whittaker shows him approaching Grey's car with two cups of oatmeal saying, "Please be alive."

Grey greets Whittaker and says he was just trying to charge his phone during the outage.

The rest of the heartwarming footage captures Whittaker and Grey eating oatmeal together in the car.

"I sat with him for 30 minutes. He told me stories about working for the phone company decades ago. About other ice storms. About life," Whittaker wrote on Instagram. "I came to check on him. He just needed company. In a world that moves fast, sometimes the most human thing you can do is slow down and knock on a door. Check on your people."