blackesthearted t1_j1js3uv wrote
Reply to comment by GuybrushBeeblebrox in At least 9 dead as massive winter storm leaves more than a million without power and bitter cold across much of US | CNN by bobybobobo
My area has some warming centers, and they're announcing them regularly on social media and the local news, but not everyone's able to get one.
I work in an ER, though I've been off since yesterday and don't go back until Monday. I've heard from friends/co-workers working yesterday and today, though, that we've had several homeless people come in with frostbite or freezing injuries - such as an arm or leg froze to a surface, like the ground, and the skin and tissue was damaged when the person moved.
And mind, we haven't gotten hit as badly in my area of MI as many other areas. Having been homeless, my heart breaks for them.
There's a guy I see every so often when I go to my aunt's to run errands for her, and I managed to get him to accept a winter coat and some gloves I got him. I wanted to get him some good boots, but he actually had some really decent ones he said he got from a charity a few weeks ago. There's a shelter I called that would take him, but he didn't want to go. (Unfortunately you can't force help on everyone; again, I've been in that place years ago.) I really, really hope he's okay.
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