As Storm Sandy threatens -
We were thinking about how thousands of people have evacuated to shelters to avoid the worst of it. Like other Natural Disasters, there's a good chance that hundreds may become homeless, loose everything, and have to relocate.
Here in Southern California we've met and talked to some of the people who were resettled here after Natural Disasters. Many of them were shocked by how high prices are here, rents, food, car insurance, all of it much higher than the places in New Orleans and Texas that they came from. Some of us wondered how or why they got settled in Southern California.
We hope those of you in the path of this storm will be able to stay home and stay safe and that in a week or two you will have your electricity back, your fridge running, and be back to work and school.
We hope you will think of the homeless who have no home to go back to, who cook in the park on a BBQ or eat uncooked canned food right out of the can, who can't shower every day or very often at all, who are cold at night every night in the back of their trucks, who linger in malls for the heat, whose children go to school from motel rooms and camp grounds, and who are ignored, rejected, and often abused by the HAVES.
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