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      Homelessness in San Francisco during winter

      The Hottest Winter I Ever Spent in San Francisco Was Cold and Wet

      The world as we knew it really is ending faster than some of us ever expected.

      Rebecca Gordon
      Feb 06, 2023

      It was January 1983 and raining in San Francisco.

      The summer before, I’d moved here from Portland, Oregon, a city known for its perpetual gray drizzles and, on the 60-odd days a year when the sun deigns to shine, dazzling displays of greenery. My girlfriend had spent a year convincing me that San Francisco had much more to offer me than Portland did for her.

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      Gallery owner Shannon Collier Gwin

      Spraying of Homeless Woman Reflects Larger Violence Against Unhoused People

      Gwin's violence against this homeless woman was despicable, and he should be held accountable for his crime.

      Christopher D. Cook
      Jan 20, 2023

      In the 14-second video now seen by millions, San Francisco gallery owner Collier Gwin stands nonchalant yet intent, his legs crossed casually, his age-folded face glaring as he pummels a Black homeless woman on the sidewalk with cold water spray.

      Yes, it's 2023, and a wealthy White man is blasting a hose on a homeless Black woman for sitting on the sidewalk, literally as if she were trash. Power dynamics don't get much starker than that.

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      Climate Chaos Continues as Dangerous Megastorm Hits California

      "The massive bomb cyclone unleashing on California today illuminates key underlying climate and environmental challenges," said one observer.

      Brett Wilkins
      Jan 04, 2023

      Hot on the heels of a major winter storm that inundated Northern California with torrential rains and deadly flooding, residents of the Golden State braced Wednesday for what's expected to be an even more devastating storm—the latest climate chaos to wreak havoc in the U.S. West amid a worsening planetary emergency.

      A super-potent combination of a bomb cyclone and Pineapple Express atmospheric river has the nation's most populous state on its highest level of emergency alert as the National Weather Service (NWS) said Wednesday that "a major storm and atmospheric river is poised to impact California today and Thursday with heavy to excessive rainfall, flooding with debris flows and landslides near recent burn scar areas, heavy mountain snow, and high winds."

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