05-20-2018, 09:51 AM
Not to be a Scrooge, but I hope someone is thinking about the end game for housing and feeding the evacuees. I'm glad we're taking care of the folks who have lost everything due to the lava flow, but the County was apparently totally fine not housing or feeding our pre-existing homeless population before the flow happened. Are some homeless folks "good" homeless and others "disposable" homeless? And if this flow continues -- as many predict it will -- for weeks, months or years, what is the County's plan to close down the shelters and/or find permanent living situations for the evacuees? I suspect all the focus is on day-to-day crisis management, but there is a ticking time bomb that needs to be addressed.