Seems like I have quite a night ahead of me...
Until 1:30am
Tonight I am learning more about the provision of basic social services--food, shelter, emergency medicine, etc--at NIGHT. My stops will include Cook County Hospital Trauma Unit, the 19th District Police Station, and the National Runaway Switchboard's Crisis Call Center. Then I am visiting the Lakeview neighborhood and will explore the area on foot to learn more about how people live in the area at night-- trying to figure out what a person does when they are hungry, cold, sick, or tired and they don't have a place to go or money to spend. My "tour guide" will be a staff member from the Night Ministry, an organization that is very active in the Lakeview area at night with outreach and services.
The Storm
According to the present weather report: Light Snow and Windy Feels Like 13°F, Wind: From the North at 28 gusting to 38 mph.
I've been scared to go outside all day. Instead, I've been curled up in bed by the window reading. My whole apartment is shaking from the wind, my windows rattling like crazy. Outside my window there are about 50 trees and with every gust they look like they're going to be uprooted and flung hundreds of feet away. Today I only saw about five brave souls out walking, each one was bent over facing the wind, arms wrapped around themselves with looks of misery on their faces as they slowly walked along.
Until 1:30am
Tonight I am learning more about the provision of basic social services--food, shelter, emergency medicine, etc--at NIGHT. My stops will include Cook County Hospital Trauma Unit, the 19th District Police Station, and the National Runaway Switchboard's Crisis Call Center. Then I am visiting the Lakeview neighborhood and will explore the area on foot to learn more about how people live in the area at night-- trying to figure out what a person does when they are hungry, cold, sick, or tired and they don't have a place to go or money to spend. My "tour guide" will be a staff member from the Night Ministry, an organization that is very active in the Lakeview area at night with outreach and services.
The Storm
According to the present weather report: Light Snow and Windy Feels Like 13°F, Wind: From the North at 28 gusting to 38 mph.
I've been scared to go outside all day. Instead, I've been curled up in bed by the window reading. My whole apartment is shaking from the wind, my windows rattling like crazy. Outside my window there are about 50 trees and with every gust they look like they're going to be uprooted and flung hundreds of feet away. Today I only saw about five brave souls out walking, each one was bent over facing the wind, arms wrapped around themselves with looks of misery on their faces as they slowly walked along.
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