( – promoted by Sue Prent)
Watching weather.com tracking Hurricane Irene, listening to Mayor Bloomberg say, “Even if you have to walk, evacuate now.” Public housing units are shutting down (elevators, furnaces, water, electrical power), people being bussed out.
Where are all these people going? How does a homeless person get the news about special shelters? No one I’ve heard so far has even mentioned the word “homeless.”
(Lucky enough to have hatches that are battened here, though it’s likely to be just rain and a stiff wind if it gets to NW Vermont.)
on the subject about such down in NYC, since the first paragraph of your post referred to that region, here.
not sure about elsewhere however.
I used to give a homeless vet lifts when I saw him hitchhiking. He used to camp-out far outside of Montpelier. I wonder if he’s still around, and hope that he and others are safe.
Other than homeless people who stay at shelters, the only way I can think to help folks who are wary of shelters, or who camp-out in areas vulnerable to flooding or toppling trees would be a buddy system. Individuals or groups making an effort to befriend individual homeless people and keeping track of them so they can be warned/moved during natural disasters.