Thu, Nov 26 2009
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Residents cope with help from shelters, each other By CARL E. FEATHER - Lifestyle Editor - cfeather@starbeacon.comStar Beacon They arrived at the cafeteria with a packed suitcase and loaf of bread, thinking it would be an overnight stay. But Stasiewski says the cafeteria was not set up as a disaster shelter and would close at 9 p.m. The shelter was to reopen at 8 a.m. today.
Stasiewski said the hospital’s census has been running at more than 100 percent all winter, and there’s no room to accommodate the public overnight. “We have just about every bed occupied by a patient,” she says. The hospital also had to accommodate dialysis patients from the DaVita facility on West 19th Street, which was without power. Some patients were referred to DaVita’s Madison center, as well. At Greenway Senior Housing, residents Dorothy and Chester Johns, Pearl Britton, and Nick and Martha Radwancky took the adventure in stride as they chatted in the commons area, which is heated by a gas fireplace. Although their apartments were without heat (each apartment has its own forced-air gas furnace), temperatures in the rooms were in the mid-60s. “That’s why I’m not panicking,” Dorothy Johns said. Johns said she and Corlew periodically made the rounds to check on residents in the 20 or so occupied apartments. “We couldn’t ask for a better manager; he’s has been out there, knocking on doors,” she said. “Everybody is helping each other and watching out for each other. It’s like a family atmosphere here,” Corlew said. “Things are going very well.” Corlew said family members who had power would be taking some of the residents to live with them overnight. Others planned to tough it out by the fireplace, under a pile of blankets in their rooms or put on more clothing. Britton had three sweat shirts on; Radwancky wore her heavy winter coat. They had gone to Alleman’s for lunch and hoped the power would be on by 5 p.m. so they could cook the evening meal in their apartments. And if it was not? “We’re going to be like the Amish,” Johns said. 
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