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She helped provide shelter to homeless people
A single act of generosity was multiplied again and again after a Good Samaritan paid for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people in Chicago from a historic and potentially deadly cold snap.
Donations of transportation, food and money flooded in after strangers learned that real estate developer Candice Payne had booked 20 hotel rooms at the Amber Inn motel.
"I had strangers from social media who are now lifelong friends helping me," she told CNN. Soon, the improvised group had booked 60 rooms for more than 100 people, including children and families, Payne said.
The random act of kindness helped. Chicago was brutally cold, with temperatures of 20-25 below zero Wednesday. The homeless encampment near the Dan Ryan Expressway was heated by 150 to 200 portable propane tanks -- many of them donated by generous citizens. Shortly after noon, one of the tanks in the tent city exploded because it was too close to a space heater. That left city officials with no option but to close the encampment and hurry to find shelter for the people living there.
They fired up a snowmobile to deliver medication
With temperatures in the danger zone and snow blocking driveways, a Michigan pharmacist got creative in delivering prescriptions to her customers.
Andrea Cusack, a pharmacist at Lake Odessa Pharmacy, typically delivers medicine for customers in the small community of Lake Odessa, a town between Grand Rapids and Lansing. But on Tuesday, with snow covering the road, Cusack enlisted the help of her 15-year-old son and fired up their snowmobile so they could make a special delivery.
"Blood pressure, diabetes meds, you do not want to stop those," Cusack said. "You want to take those continuously."
Cusack's husband shared a picture of the delivering duo on Facebook.
"Appears we have a new addition to Lake Odessa Pharmacy's delivery service!" he posted.
Firefighters helped with a newborn and shoveled snow
Iowa couple Scotty and Cassy Abram found themselves in a precarious situation. Their son made his first appearance without notice, and Scotty Abram had to deliver him on their living room as they waited for paramedics to arrive.
"EMT arrived about 10 minutes later and they let dad cut the umbilical cord on the living room floor," Cassy's aunt, Larissa Ruffin, told CNN.
When Cedar Rapids firefighters arrived, they made their day even more special. While several of them took care of the mother and the baby inside, others shoveled snow from the couple's driveway.
And as mother and baby were being wheeled out of their house to go back to the hospital, they saw a scene they'll never forget.
"After they got mom and baby in warm blankets on the stretcher and 'Dr. Dad' was ready to go, we went outside and saw the firemen finishing shoveling their long drive," Ruffin said.
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