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Backing your car out of its spot, you head down the alleyway that spills onto a back street, away from the congestion. The neighborhood you travel is made up of desperately stacked 60’s-era apartments. The afternoon breeze carries through open windows into cramped living spaces as cooking smells waft through the air.

Residents are congregated here and there, gesturing in panic as if the coming devastation will go away so long as they stand near cars or on front lawns and voice their fears. You’re forced to navigate around hastily opened car doors on the narrow roadway as residents dump household goods and electronics into the backseats and trunks of their cars. They resemble busy ants whose nest has been disturbed; up worn stairs and back down to deposit more useless junk and it suddenly occurs to you most of these people will be a statistic if things get bad. How were TV’s, computers and Nintendo’s going to feed and shelter them? They wouldn’t!

You force yourself to tune out your thoughts: There is nothing you can do to change the outcome, not when your worst imaginings are being announced on the radio and you are still miles away from your son’s school.