A sharp-eyed lady bus driver in Wisconsin rescued two very under dressed children as the bitterly cold weather took hold across the Midwest earlier this week. The boy and girl, ages 6 and 2, respectively, had roamed around with wind chills in the area just 3º Fahrenheit (or -16º Celsius) when the motorist spotted them.
Nicole Chamberlain was driving her route for Waukesha Metro Transit Monday morning in the west of Milwaukee when she spotted a boy wearing just a T-shirt and pair of pants along with a girl wearing only a shirt and a diaper.
Chamberlain told FOX6 on Tuesday that none of the kids had a coat on. "It was snowing and windy, and these were tiny little kids," she said.
Waukesha Police Department released a surveillance video from inside the bus which showed Chamberlain taking off her coat to use it to warm up the children.
Chamberlain contacted the police; however, the children's family came to the bus before cops arrived. The parents were reunited with their children after witnessing "all the commotion."
The lady bus driver told FOX6 she was thrilled that the situation turned out to be even better than what a person could hear sometimes. "The [happy family was reunited]. They were safe," she said.
(Video from DailyMail)
Meteorologists: the United States is currently below freezing point
According to Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean on "Fox & Friends," 70 percent of the United States is currently below freezing temperatures except for Los Angeles in California and Tampa in Florida.
The cold enveloped the eastern two-thirds of the country brought snowfall records in Buffalo and Detroit; frozen lakes in Minnesota, single-digit temperatures to Chicago; and dusted cars with snow in Tennessee weeks earlier than expected.
The freeze advisories from Texas towards the Southeast, according to Dean, would mean the country would deal with below-freezing temperatures and even reinforcing shot of cold air that extended as far south as the Gulf Coast.
According to FOX8, heavy lake-effect snow was blamed in Ohio for causing whiteout conditions that caused several massive pileups across the state. Ohio Department of Transportation said a car crash was reported on Interstate 90 in Lake County.
Clean-up continues on I-90 west between Paine and Vrooman roads in #LakeCountyOH and the left lane remains closed. pic.twitter.com/bkcBfG6eT0 — ODOT Cleveland (@ODOT_Cleveland) November 12, 2019
The arctic blast also created accidents and travel delays in Midwest earlier this week. The weather caused at least four deaths in Kansas and Michigan, which were linked to poor road conditions as the Arctic air surge moved from Midwest to East Coast and Gulf area.
Freeze warnings stretched to coastal South Carolina to eastern Texas with overnight lows predicted in the 20s. Dean said weather conditions are expected to stay frigid through the weekend.
"We are still [facing] with [possible snowfalls] across Northern Plains and Great Lakes," Dean said on "Fox & Friends." "Still cold today, tomorrow, even into the weekend but things will warm up next week," she added.
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