In 2021, shortly before opening the VTC (pre-launch involved a place on Carrol St. where many were towed to from the Candlestick Park area, before coming here to the VTC Jan 2022). I was not here for that, but experienced the 11 atmospheric rivers of winter of 22-23 and it flooded the entrance and all the park around us.
This is the entrance today, Dec 30, 2023, after TWO rain storms.
This is now, Dec 30, 2023 really high tides.
today. No preparation is done to improve access up front, which is already flooded where the original 2022 VTC entrance was. Rainy season has barely begun. That water contains mercury, copper, lead, PCBs, and I bet there’s things from WW2 deep in that mud not even named. This water sits to the rear of my RV. The first two photos are driving in. Surrounded by water. Toxic water.
Note that the San Francisco Grand Jury issued a report about this area, climate change, and the potential for flooding which could release toxins from the NPL SUPERFUND site that is next door, the Hunter’s Point Shipyard.
Below are my photos from winter 22-23. Above photos are from the Dept of Homelessness presentation Dec 5, 2023 to the State Lands Commission.
My home, papers property and husband’s ashes: my world. No sand bags available! I’m from Louisiana and I asked the Urban Alchemy every single day (even sometimes in tears) to please go get us/ order up sufficient sandbags. Below are the only sandbags brought in during this non-stop rain. It went on for 6 weeks.
Shortly before the storms began, the City dug approximately 20 of these holes for poles for solar panels with lights. The drill went at least 12′ down, releasing who knows what kind of foulness into the environment, helped along by wet wind. Like on purpose, they (???) used a giant corkscrew to loosen up the tarmac at strategic points. My late father was an engineer so when I walked the land the first time after these hollow cement stands were made, and saw the grid they made, big plugs of dirt and rubble tarmac removed, I was struck how three seasons of rain underneath this old parking lot and it would was away into Yosemite Slough (a.k.a. Parcel F of the Hunter’s Point Shipyard). I’d like to see the permits for such deep digging in the rainy season in a waterlogged, borderzone community.
Note the wet table of our only kitchen alternative. A microwave in the rain, Unsheltered.
Tarps were handed out but no staff helped put them up so I declined. Note the man on the ladder and on his roof in the howling wind has a broken foot. Where is the triage for our vehicles?!!
After the end of the storms, about February 2023, I looked up noticed a tiny twig of a tree growing above where my late husband slept.
- Film Index
- Bleak, Toxic Location
- No Electricity
- No Fire Suppression
- Not Allowed to Cook or Heat
- Unsafe Food Service
- Fight for Drinking Water
- Part-time non-ADA Showers
- Property Seizures
- Rat Problem
- No Visitors/ Social Isolation
- No Site Security
- Favoritism and Retaliation
- Delay/ Denial of Services
- Endless Paperwork
- Human Zoo Tours
- Who Runs This Fiefdom?
- Film of Urban Alchemy as Paid Oppressors
- Points and Authorities
- Camp Blog
- Media Pieces
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