Occupiers’ new foe: freezing cold in D.C.
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2012/01/occupiers-new-foe-freezing-cold-in-dc_05.html
Usually, the Occupy D.C. protesters at Freedom Plaza battle corporate greed and taxes. On Tuesday night, their biggest battle was against hypothermia.
The dwindling number of residents zipped up their tents, swallowed vitamins and swaddled themselves in clothing as temperatures dipped into the teens.
"Thank God I have blankets,'' said Blair Rush, a 41-year-old homeless woman as she moved back into her tent, her body warmed by at least three layers of clothing. "I don't do cold."
Rush doesn't do cold, but she knows cold. She said she has been homeless for four years, ever since she stopped being able to make her mortgage payments. She tried the shelter system, but too many people were scared of her service dog, Kelo.
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