One Night Count....

This morning at 2AM I met several hundred other people downtown to participate in Seattle/King County's "One Night Count". The count was sponsored by the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness; this was "the counts" 30th year....

King County has one of the nation's best-established point-in-time counts of homeless people. The One Night Count remains the largest community-organized count in the United States. 978 volunteers and 30 teams covered our county. Here are two volunteers and co-workers,
Jenny and Kelly.

The 2010 One Night Count also collected information from select hospitals about emergency room usage, and from Metro night owl buses operating throughout the county.

We were assigned grids and our job was to walk each section, street, park,
lot, within the grid.

2,759 people were counted--adults, children, families, elders all living on our streets or in cars.
After we finished, I came home at 6AM to my home and went to sleep;
That's all I will say.