New camp pops up downtown
TVA says there’s a new homeless campsite, this one on Park Avenue near Milton, with three tents, but the accompanying photo shows at least half a dozen. Also I’ve seen a recent photo of the Notre-Dame camp still occupied.
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Kate
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dwgs 11:57 on 2020-11-16 Permalink
I drove by the Notre Dame one last week, it was as big as ever. Temperatures have dropped since then though.
Kate 12:21 on 2020-11-16 Permalink
Last week was great camping weather. This week it won’t freeze, but sooner or later snow is bound to make a tent so unappealing that it’s preferable to take the city up on its offer of a shelter space.
Passing thought: where do hard-up people get tents, and where will they store them over winter?
CE 12:59 on 2020-11-16 Permalink
You can come across used tents pretty cheap. Lots of people buy them thinking they’ll take up camping and either do it once or twice or realize they don’t much care for sleeping on the ground in the middle of the woods and never do it again. Those who keep at it, will find an almost unlimited supply of fancier tents to upgrade to over time and each time, they’ll sell their old tent for nearly nothing.
Kate 13:24 on 2020-11-16 Permalink
I see the cheapest MEC tent is around $250 (and the sky’s the limit) but you can get a reasonably sound-looking tent at Canadian Tire for about sixty bucks.
nau 13:47 on 2020-11-16 Permalink
>This week it won’t freeze.
Forecast high for Wednesday is minus four, so I hope they have warm gear. Actually, if you can handle the associated colder temperatures, snow can be preferable to rain. What’ll really dissuade people is freezing rain or 15 cm of snow followed by a serious thaw that soaks everything.
Kate 13:55 on 2020-11-16 Permalink
Oof, I missed that – or else it changed since I posted. Minus four on Wednesday!