Two Rhode Island residents helped frontline health care workers after a major snowstorm hit the northeast this week.
Abbey Meeker, and her friend's son, Christian Stone, 10, cleaned snow off cars at Westerly Hospital so the heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic could have a clear road home after getting off work, WJAR reports.
The two Westerly residents went to the hospital Monday (February 1) afternoon and worked on clearing the vehicles into the evening hours.
"Christian wanted to do something good for nurses about a month ago when it stormed, and he said next time it snowed, he wanted to clean cars off for nurses because of COVID," explained Meeker. "I told him I would come with him."
"I was thinking they've been helping us a lot through this whole pandemic, and I figured why don't we help them, you know?" said Stone. "All day, every day the nurses here, they deal with the pandemic like COVID and they want to get home from work, so we thought we would make it a tiny bit easier for them by cleaning off their cars for them."
Meeker said they used different winter tools to clean the vehicles. The two Rhode Islanders arrived at around 2:00 p.m. and were thanked by grateful nurses who noticed their good deed.
"Honestly, we've probably done at least 80 cars," Meeker told WJAR. "We did 20 there, 30 here, another 20 before we called it quits," said Meeker while pointing to many of the hospital's parking lots."
Meeker said they offered their services free of charge and the parking lot roads were professionally plowed.
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