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[https://bluedotliving.com/slab-city-reaches-its-boiling-point/ by bluedotliving] | [https://bluedotliving.com/slab-city-reaches-its-boiling-point/ by bluedotliving] | ||
An off-grid California desert community offers refuge for the overlooked, misunderstood, and disenfranchised. But with deadly heat more frequent, residents face increasing danger. | An off-grid California desert community offers refuge for the overlooked, misunderstood, and disenfranchised. But with deadly heat more frequent, residents face increasing danger. | ||
=====Is Slab City, California the Last Free Place in America?===== | |||
[https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/slab-city-california-last-free-place-america/ by Charlie Hailey 2/11/18 ZOCALO] | |||
When the alert pinged on my phone, I thought of Austin and his house of wooden pallets. A “wall of dust” roiled toward Slab City and other “impacted locations” in California’s Imperial County, and the National Weather Service warned: “avoid outdoor exposure.” It was an official weather bulletin for an unofficial place. An advisory with no remedy, because with pallets for walls there is no inside. | |||
