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And other places like Texas are getting hit hard. I am trying to keep myself from explaining things like 'cotton kills' on twitter ... I have no engagement and like only 2 real people followers so no one would see it anyway.
There is was one grocery store open in my area last night and it was well raided. Bread shelves were empty. I wasn't able to get chicken. I walked a mile in semi-frozen crunchy slush to resuppply and mostly came home with protein bars. More is melted today, but it's still an icy mess. Most people aren't even trying to walk on the sidewalks here, they are just walking in the road because that's clear.
So it's Yoga Week here! I'm going through Yoga with Adrienne's channel and finding more routines in my ability level. I may or may not try again at a supply run tonight.
One grocery store in another part of town was open because they were on generators. But, the generators broke and rather than donate the food they started putting out palettes of cheese in the parking lot and had police officers guarding it to ensure it all became waste and went in the dumpster and no one could snag any. Like, there was no place to BUY food in that part of town when Freddie's also closed.
People are angry at the PPB, but it's more likely they were privately hired. I don't know if this is the case other places, but here cops can moonlight. When you hire them privately they wear their police uniform, gun, etc. So if you see police here you don't know if they are working for the city or if they are working for a corporation for $50/hour.
I am usually pretty >.> about non-homeless people 'snagging' food. There is a big culture here of trying to eliminate waste in ways that usually make me go on about food safety and liability, but Freddie's didn't actually have a liability here as far as I could tell and seeing it blow up on twitter that there was a place to get cheese and pickles to get through the storm ... some people are in bad shape here and worse shape elsewhere. It's scary, yo. And also the local food banks could 100% have safely and quickly taken at least some of those supplies in if the management wasn't so dumb. Oregon Book Bank is literally set up to take in unexpected food overflow, including stuff that needs refrigeration.
Fun fact, I know both about the PPB moonlighting thing and food bank response capability from working conventions.
This post got longer than I expected. I guess I am still really pissed at seeing police force food to become waste in an emergency situation when it 100% could have legally, safely helped people.
[Edit] Police have clarified it wasn't a police response. As I assumed, it was cops moonlighting for $50/hour in uniform. News is also reporting it as spoiled food rather than a store shut down due to a generator failure.
It feels weird to defend this because I am usually on the other side of these conversations, but that's not what happened and the real news story should be how many people were scrambling for food and how badly FM management fucked up. The Oregon Food Bank gives tours to people in event running to make clear how capable they are to scoop up food. They paid a lot of money to make sure that food became waste.
There is was one grocery store open in my area last night and it was well raided. Bread shelves were empty. I wasn't able to get chicken. I walked a mile in semi-frozen crunchy slush to resuppply and mostly came home with protein bars. More is melted today, but it's still an icy mess. Most people aren't even trying to walk on the sidewalks here, they are just walking in the road because that's clear.
So it's Yoga Week here! I'm going through Yoga with Adrienne's channel and finding more routines in my ability level. I may or may not try again at a supply run tonight.
One grocery store in another part of town was open because they were on generators. But, the generators broke and rather than donate the food they started putting out palettes of cheese in the parking lot and had police officers guarding it to ensure it all became waste and went in the dumpster and no one could snag any. Like, there was no place to BUY food in that part of town when Freddie's also closed.
People are angry at the PPB, but it's more likely they were privately hired. I don't know if this is the case other places, but here cops can moonlight. When you hire them privately they wear their police uniform, gun, etc. So if you see police here you don't know if they are working for the city or if they are working for a corporation for $50/hour.
I am usually pretty >.> about non-homeless people 'snagging' food. There is a big culture here of trying to eliminate waste in ways that usually make me go on about food safety and liability, but Freddie's didn't actually have a liability here as far as I could tell and seeing it blow up on twitter that there was a place to get cheese and pickles to get through the storm ... some people are in bad shape here and worse shape elsewhere. It's scary, yo. And also the local food banks could 100% have safely and quickly taken at least some of those supplies in if the management wasn't so dumb. Oregon Book Bank is literally set up to take in unexpected food overflow, including stuff that needs refrigeration.
Fun fact, I know both about the PPB moonlighting thing and food bank response capability from working conventions.
This post got longer than I expected. I guess I am still really pissed at seeing police force food to become waste in an emergency situation when it 100% could have legally, safely helped people.
[Edit] Police have clarified it wasn't a police response. As I assumed, it was cops moonlighting for $50/hour in uniform. News is also reporting it as spoiled food rather than a store shut down due to a generator failure.
It feels weird to defend this because I am usually on the other side of these conversations, but that's not what happened and the real news story should be how many people were scrambling for food and how badly FM management fucked up. The Oregon Food Bank gives tours to people in event running to make clear how capable they are to scoop up food. They paid a lot of money to make sure that food became waste.
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Date: 2021-02-18 03:27 am (UTC)From:that Freddie's thing is just infuriating - so damn stupid and thoughtless; as you say, a lot of that cold have been safely harvested by the Gleaners or the Food Bank to go to people in sincere need (of which there are too damn many)
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Date: 2021-02-18 05:34 am (UTC)From:That Freddie's is huge. That food would have been a huge windfall for the food banks.
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Date: 2021-02-18 06:04 am (UTC)From:God, how fucking petty of them. That's just so bullshit.
Stay safe.
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