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Emergency Warming Centers
It's surprisingly cold on the west coast, surprisingly early.It's not that it's that cold in absolute terms, or that it's the very coldest it gets in the Bay Area, but it's much colder than usual--and drier and clearer, making the unseasonableness more noticable. Well, I don't know what the reason is, but I'm noticing it a lot more this year. I was talking to Sidra about it. "This sucks. And it really sucks for the homeless people." It was a spontaneous thought that slipped onto my tongue before I even realized it, and as such has managed to stick in my brain rather gnawingly. A little over a year ago this SF Chronicle article estimated that the Bay Area had about 35,000 homeless people. That's around half the population of Mountain View, California. The temperature here is going to dip into the low 30s tonight, and in Seattle, where it was snowing this weekend, it will probably be freezing.There are emergency warming centers in Spokane. In this post-Thanksgiving pre-Christmas season, I hope you are all warm and safe, and perhaps have some time to remember those who aren't.