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re: Question about homeless people in Chicago. Cold weather related.
Posted on 1/28/19 at 11:48 pm to AbuTheMonkey
Posted on 1/28/19 at 11:48 pm to AbuTheMonkey
If they are out in true -20 (without the aid of some sort of heat) they will likely be in serious trouble. The coldest night I ever spent out was -43 F on Denali. I had a -40 degree bag (which cost about a grand at the time) and still froze my arse off that night. The sole comfort was a Nalgene bottle filled with my warm pee.
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Posted on 1/29/19 at 12:03 am to TidenUP
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Some will commit a misdemeanor and get locked up for a few days, until the cold weather passes. It seemed like we always picked up the same people for the same stupid shite, year after year during the cold snaps.
The Cop and the Anthem
Posted on 1/29/19 at 12:15 am to AbuTheMonkey
Informative post . Thanks.
Posted on 1/29/19 at 12:29 am to Graham Wellington Jr
They city pays for warm zones in very cold weather. Usually they get buses and park them. Never been on one but I’m certain it’s like 85% homeless people.
Also, people live on the subway line. They will will stay on the train for a day or two at a time before they get off. Riding it around, usually to bad neighborhoods. During the day it isn’t noticeable but if you get on a late night redline, it’s rough
Also, people live on the subway line. They will will stay on the train for a day or two at a time before they get off. Riding it around, usually to bad neighborhoods. During the day it isn’t noticeable but if you get on a late night redline, it’s rough
Posted on 1/29/19 at 12:54 am to Graham Wellington Jr
Real lack of initiative and planning by our politicians on this all around. In the 90's cities bought homeless one way tickets to Hawaii. What were the results? Homeless people and poverty everywhere in downtown honolulu. Shame on politicians for not being proactive and buying homeless tickets to Chicago/Minnesota during this event and solving the homeless crisis
Posted on 1/29/19 at 12:56 am to Obtuse1
Ofc you froze, it wasn't a -43 F bag
Posted on 1/29/19 at 1:02 am to Graham Wellington Jr
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Please explain in detail, how they will
Men survived on frozen battlefields in holes in the ground. They made it when it was so cold the ground froze and they had to build a fire just to thaw it out.
It’s dangerous, but let’s not pretend humans haven’t been surviving the cold forever
Posted on 1/29/19 at 6:14 am to Graham Wellington Jr
They are picking up homeless people and moving them to shelters right now.
They are taking this pretty seriously. A lot of people that grew up in Chicago are taking off work on Wednesday. The wind chill could be as low as -55 on Wednesday morning. I have an apartment in a glass high rise in west loop, and I probably won’t leave it on Wednesday until I go to O’Hare that night.
The blue line will be full of homeless people.
They are taking this pretty seriously. A lot of people that grew up in Chicago are taking off work on Wednesday. The wind chill could be as low as -55 on Wednesday morning. I have an apartment in a glass high rise in west loop, and I probably won’t leave it on Wednesday until I go to O’Hare that night.
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Also, people live on the subway line. They will will stay on the train for a day or two at a time before they get off. Riding it around, usually to bad neighborhoods
The blue line will be full of homeless people.
This post was edited on 1/29/19 at 6:18 am
Posted on 1/29/19 at 6:19 am to RogerTheShrubber
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We've have warming centers here where they can stay overnight when it gets below 32 degrees. I imagine they have those in Chicago too
So like 8 months of the year in Alaska?
Posted on 1/29/19 at 6:19 am to Graham Wellington Jr
Culling of the herd.
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:02 am to dewster
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I have an apartment in a glass high rise in west loop, and I probably won’t leave it on Wednesday until I go to O’Hare that night.
I ended up coming into work today. Everyone at my office is staying home, so I figure that I can get more work done. Windchill should be around -20 when I leave work this afternoon. Not ideal, but bearable in a short walk to the L.
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A lot of people that grew up in Chicago are taking off work on Wednesday. The wind chill could be as low as -55 on Wednesday morning.
Tomorrow is another story. Will not be going outside.
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:03 am to hoopsgalore
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Windchill should be around -20 when I leave work this afternoon. Not ideal, but bearable in a short walk to the L.
The problem won’t be the walk. It will be the wait on the platform.
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:14 am to dewster
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The problem won’t be the walk. It will be the wait on the platform.
Blue Line at Monroe and Division for me, so they're both underground.
This post was edited on 1/29/19 at 7:15 am
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:18 am to hoopsgalore
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Blue Line at Monroe and Division for me, so they're both underground.
I usually take the pink line to Morgan (or I walk), but I am just going to uber today.
This post was edited on 1/29/19 at 7:20 am
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:19 am to hoopsgalore
Stay warm guys. I just looked at International Falls. Actual temp now is -23 with a low tonight of -37. Dangerous temps. I don't even think you can tell that it's "warming up" at those temperatures.
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:21 am to VABuckeye
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Stay warm guys. I just looked at International Falls. Actual temp now is -23 with a low tonight of -37. Dangerous temps. I don't even think you can tell that it's "warming up" at those temperatures.
Even the locals aren’t messing around with those temps.
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:22 am to dewster
Semi related story. One of my first apartments in Chicago was in an older kinda dumpy building (or “vintage” as the apartment ads like to say) at Diversey and Halsted. Front door to building didn’t shut real well.
One winter morning I wake up at 7 A.M., sit up, and I’m confronted with the nastiest stench of BO and death I’ve ever smelt. Made me gag. I smell the closet, the hamper, I look in the trash, under the furniture, WTF. Where is this coming from? Finally I notice it’s the worst by the front door. I open it and I’m hit with an even more intense blast of wretched death. There’s a bum sleeping or dead in the stairwell.
I go down the fire escape and call the cops. I wasn’t walking by that dude. They come. Cop takes out his night stick and taps the guy on the forehead “you alive”. Bum grumbles “yes”. Cops tell him that he needs to leave but also tell him they’ve never smelt anything so horrible and that they know the fire fighters in the fire house across the street and they would let him shower and run his clothes through the washing machine.
Bums responds: “F U”, packs up and walks out. Lol.
Saw him a few more times in the neighborhood drinking mouthwash outside the Walgreens.
Landlord had to get the carpet professionally cleaned.
One winter morning I wake up at 7 A.M., sit up, and I’m confronted with the nastiest stench of BO and death I’ve ever smelt. Made me gag. I smell the closet, the hamper, I look in the trash, under the furniture, WTF. Where is this coming from? Finally I notice it’s the worst by the front door. I open it and I’m hit with an even more intense blast of wretched death. There’s a bum sleeping or dead in the stairwell.
I go down the fire escape and call the cops. I wasn’t walking by that dude. They come. Cop takes out his night stick and taps the guy on the forehead “you alive”. Bum grumbles “yes”. Cops tell him that he needs to leave but also tell him they’ve never smelt anything so horrible and that they know the fire fighters in the fire house across the street and they would let him shower and run his clothes through the washing machine.
Bums responds: “F U”, packs up and walks out. Lol.
Saw him a few more times in the neighborhood drinking mouthwash outside the Walgreens.
Landlord had to get the carpet professionally cleaned.
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:24 am to hoopsgalore
What brand coat, boots and stuff do you guys wear in this extreme cold?
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:25 am to Graham Wellington Jr
If I were homeless, my city of choice would not be Chicago
Posted on 1/29/19 at 7:37 am to Graham Wellington Jr
Too bad the Obama Presidential Library isn’t open yet. Would serve as a great homeless shelter.
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