Weernieuws The polar vortex demanded least 21 lives in the Midwest of the USA. Due to the extreme freezing – even minus 49 degrees Celsius, at night – is also feared that any amputation of frozen toes and fingers. But there is also heartening news. In Chicago paid an anonymous benefactor, the hotel expenses for 70 homeless persons.

Tens of millions of Americans in the Midwest have harsh temperatures to brave, to a whopping minus 49 degrees Celsius. That is so cold that come out can be deadly. In just a few minutes can freeze to occur on the limbs, which can lead to gangrene and even amputation. Vulnerable groups are at real risk, such as the homeless and the elderly.

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The death toll stood yesterday at 12 but has risen to 21, after another 9 dead in Chicago. A good Samaritan has seemed worse in the city. Wednesday were 70 people from a daklozenkamp, after a gas cylinder had exploded. It touched no one, fortunately, none were hurt, but the result was that a hundred other propaanflessen seized. The homeless could no longer heating. While the Salvation Army is a solution for the seventy homeless people, offered an anonymous benefactor them yesterday for the rest of the week staying in a hotel at his expense.

Others put in for about 80,000 homeless people in Chicago. The fire service warned there was already no gas bottles to donate due to explosion and fire hazard.

Not only the homeless risk their lives in the biting cold. Wednesday morning was an eighteen-year-old student from Iowa, Gerard Belz, found dead on the campus, within walking distance of the ‘kot’. According to the police played in the freezing cold of a role in the death. When they found him, was the wind-chill factor minus 46 degrees.