Quick post to let you all know that we’re still alive.
Our mobile home was red-tagged and condemned. We’re currently living in the Red Cross shelter in Ridgecrest. I will write a story about it when I can write a “this is a thing that happened to us” and not a “goddamn are we fucked” story.
I AM NOT ASKING FOR HELP OR MONEY
For one thing, there are a lot of aid agencies grinding through all the people who lost homes in this disaster. IT WILL BE SOME TIME before we know if we’re staying in Ridgecrest or even California. We know that we’re not going back to the trailer or back to the trailer park and that is all we know, so I wouldn’t even begin to know what exactly we’d need help with.
MOST OF OUR POSSESSIONS HAVE SURVIVED we just can’t get at them as the police will arrest people getting things out of a red-tagged home as they did to our neighbors.
so tl;dr we were in the earthquake, we survived, our house is condemned not destroyed, we’re waiting for next steps which could be weeks, WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR HELP OR MONEY just letting you know that we’re OK and in a safe place with Internet and air conditioning