Snow wreaked havoc on the well-laid plans the Virginia coaching staff had this past weekend. But sometimes, the best moments happen when there are no plans at all.

With its big recruiting weekend canceled thanks to the 15.5 inches of snow Winter Storm Jonas dumped on Charlottesville, Va., assistants living in temporary quarters at the Cavalier Inn woke up Sunday morning and had nothing on the schedule. Their families are still back home in Provo, Utah. Church services were canceled. Director of player personnel Justin Anderson took one look outside the window and saw snow covering cars, streets and sidewalks and thought, “There’s going to be some people who need some help today.”

He called a bishop at the local LDS church and asked for a list of people who could use assistance shoveling snow. Then, Anderson texted six assistants and wrote, “Meet me in the lobby in 15 minutes. We’re going to start shoveling.”

They went on their way to the first home on their list. Anderson knocked on the door and met a single woman who works at a local school.

“She was pretty excited,” Anderson said in a phone interview. “She basically said, ‘I would have never been able to do it by myself. I can’t believe you guys are really doing this!’”

The woman had four shovels. They borrowed three more from neighbors.

So that just happened. UVA football coaches just dug me & my entire cul-de-sac out. #Grateful #gohoos pic.twitter.com/KlOCj0tptL — Candace Cone (@Fresne) January 24, 2016

“We dug her out pretty quick,” Anderson said. “And so then we looked at the house next door and we were like 'We borrowed their shovel,' so we dug them out, too.”

That home belonged to an elderly couple. The husband told the Virginia coaches he and his wife would have been forced to sit at home until the snow melted.

“He was like, ‘You guys are like angels,’” Anderson recalled.

In all, running backs coach Mark Atuaia, director of football operations Patrick Hickman, defensive coordinator Nick Howell, defensive line coach Shane Hunter, outside linebackers coach Kelly Poppinga and graduate assistant coach Vic So'oto joined Anderson as they went from house to house. Though they sported Virginia gear, they didn’t introduce themselves as football coaches. But as curious neighbors started peeking outside to see what was going on, they started to pitch in and help, too. Naturally, they started asking questions.

“People would ask, ‘Who are you guys?' and we’d say 'We work at UVa,’” Anderson said.

“Oh what do you do there?” came the next question.

“We tried to play it off. We didn’t want to be like, ‘Oh look who we are,'” Anderson said.

So rather than reveal their identities, they replied with a generic, “We coach.”

But that did not stop the questions.

“Oh. What sport?” came next.

“Football,” they said.

“I think they were kind of shocked we were out there helping,” Anderson said.

One more picture that just came in of Our fb staff serving today - pic.twitter.com/KQku8l2eD4 — Bronco Mendenhall (@UVACoachBronco) January 24, 2016

The coaches ended up doing the entire cul-de-sac on that street, then went to one more home up in the woods, with a driveway 20 yards long buried deep in snow. They flagged down a man passing by in a tractor for some initial help, then dug the rest of the way out. While they worked, a neighbor across the street yelled, “Go Hoos!”

There may not have been a staff better equipped to handle all the snow than one coming from Utah, though Anderson concedes, “It’s a little bit different in Provo. Everyone has snow plows.”

Still, the coaches ended up shoveling snow at about eight homes, and stayed out five hours doing the work. It was an experience they won’t soon forget. Neither will the people they helped.

“Giving back to the community is important,” Anderson said. “We didn’t have anything to do. There’s always people who can use some help so we thought why not go help them out? All of us felt good doing it. It was fun because as coaches, we get along really well and I think doing it together made it even more enjoyable. When you’re working hard and having fun it doesn’t seem like work.”