WARMING SHELTER OPENS!! FINALLY Boulder averts disaster
UPDATE 10 1:00pm January1 2011 With temperatures at 7 degrees in Boulder today the city contracted with all of the warming shelters to have at least one church open. Cornerstone church at 1190 Lashley is open until 4:00pm Then Crestview Church at 3665 Madison opens from 4:00pm til 10:00 am. The boulder shelter opens tonight, but will be at capacity. The city will immediately look at why people were left out in the cold by the warming centers and Boulder Shelter and make sure it does not happen again. We shall see.
UPDATE 9 3:00pm December 31 2010 A phone call from Mayor Susan Osborne tells the story of the city handing this emergency. No one in the county or city had planned for cold days and how to shelter the Homeless in daytime hours. The Mayor had to call city manager Jane Brautigam who is on a ski vacation to get her to do something before we had frozen dead guys all over the city.
At 1:00 oclock today 1 day shelter opened and will remain open through out the weekend. At the same time councilwoman Crystal Gray stayed on top of the crisis . Below is her email thread which she sent to Boulder Channel 1.yor Susan Osborne started making phone calls at 11:40 this morning to try to get a shelter open during daytime hours for the 100′s of homeless men, women and children wondering boulder’s streets..
UPDATE 6 December 31 2010 10:30 am. There are NO WARMING SHELTERS OPEN FOR THE HOMELESS today in Boulder. Only the Carriage house is open until 3:00 and it has way overflowed and turning people away. What has happened.!!!??? How could this be?? It is 3 degrees in Boulder . “None of the churches are open” according to Robbie, daytime on staff at Boulder homeless Shelter. “We are not open either” he said. Even though the Boulder shelter has two staff people in the building right this minute , they won’t open the doors to the freezing homeless people. This is an out rage.! An absolute human rights violation. Robbie said that he was instructed by Shelter upper management not to let freezing people in. What the hell is the matter with Greg harms. He should have his sorry ass down at that shelter and work a shift himself and let the people in. Right God Damn now, Greg!! Bill at Boulder Police dispatch said ” we just don’t have anyplace unless a church opens its doors. ” Didn’t Jesus call on us all to offer first Shelter, clothing and food ” to all of gods children. Apparently not in Boulder. The Carriage House phone was busy, but their voice mail said that their” first priority are “women and child” That lease hundreds of men n freezing on our streets. Dave a homeless guy told us ” I don’t know if I’ll make it through today with out freezing to death before the shelter opens” Boulder County cares only looks for homeless between 6pm and 10pm. Boulder PD, thankfully has their eye out for them” 24/7 during this bitter cold”. said dispatcher Bill Boulder Over flow churches are not open during the day and only shelters the homeless at night. So all of those so called warming centers you hear about are not open! Where are the Christians when we need them?? They are not open . People are freezing to death on our streets and the entire city staff and council are vacation. Shame on them all UPDATE 5 HOMELESS LEFT OUT IN COLD VIDEO: City of Boulder announced an official accident alert at 10:20 am this morning. UPDATE 11:45 AM ” The city of boulder closes it’s offices today at noon” according to city PIO Patrick Von Kieserling,” butthe transportation department is in full swing with all snow plow trucks out.”UPDATE 11:11 AM ” The streets have been unusually slippery this morning even with thew temperatures above freezing” according to Traffic Sargent Jim MacPherson of Boulder Police department. ” We go on accident alert when we run out of resources and that’s what happened” Sargent MacPherson said. We’ve had over a dozen accidents already since this morning and it is only going to get worse.” he said. This is the kind of slippery snow where people really need to slow down, not text and be careful. People often mistake their all wheel drive vehicles as billet proof , but when the streets are “very slippery” everyone is prone to wreck. Bicyclers need to be especially cautious today. Cars cannot stop and your chances of getting run over are heightened. 10:20 AM ACCIDENT ALERT MEANS THAT BOULDER POLICE DEPARTMENT DISPATCH IS ALREADY INUNDATED WITH more calls than the department can handle. So minor accidents with out injuries will not get a police or fire response. Those involved should exchange insurance information, call a tow truck themselves and deal with it. Police and fire will respond to serious accidents only” or where there is a dispute, drugs, alcohol, hit and run, dissabled vehicles or intersection blocked” according to Sargent Jim MacPherson Boulder PD Traffic. This means , however, that Boulder is getting smacked pretty good by this storm , the roads are slippery and people are driving into one another according to Boulder PD dispatch.
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