Gold Coast IVF Medical Director Steven Palter, left, and Embryology Lab Director Ed Stehlik, had to scramble to prepare to help five women who were ready to have embryos extracted during a narrow time window during the storm, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. (Credit: Danielle Finkelstein)

Kim Farrell had an important appointment to keep Thursday morning.

The date and time had been set for her fertility doctor in Woodbury to extract the eggs that she hopes will give her and her wife Dee their second child this year.

Nature, however, had its own designs.

A storm was brewing, snow was coming and it would be arriving, well, at about the same time as the two-hour window...

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