A woman in need of a heart transplant was transported by police on a long, harrowing journey to a hospital in Ohio after getting stuck in the lake-effect storm that pummeled Chautauqua County this weekend,

With a dangerous snowstorm hitting New York, state troopers helped a woman needing a heart transplant to a small airplane for a flight to the Cleveland Clinic.

New York State Police helped bring a family to safety as a snowstorm tore through the northeast over the weekend. New York State Police say they picked up a man and woman who were stranded while traveling to Cleveland for a heart transplant on November 29.