Tent City Capitol Hill

A tent city occured at St Joe's on the Hill this week marking the beginning of the apocolypse. Rapture, please come before the fabric of our society rends. Or we run out of oil. Which ever comes first.

The Capitol Hill Seattle blog says:

Suddenly, we have a bunch of new neighbors down the street -- the parking lot at St. Joe's is now home to Seattle's Tent City. While we were a bit surprised to see the rows of tents appear out of nowhere, we're cool with it. Not sure we'd be down with the blue tarp action on a permanent basis but hosting for a few weeks is probably good for everybody's karma.

This would be Tent City 3 which had a long and public stay at Seatle University last year, but has since been flying somewhat under the radar. It generally stays put for only three weeks at a time and then moves on and this isn't Tent City 3's first visit to St. Joe's. All our Google Fu powers cannot come up with where the homeless encampment has been between Seattle University and now, though. Where the hell is this Harbor DB when you need it? Oh yeah. Actually Tent 3 tends to cohabitate with its neighbors pretty effectively in contrast to the prima donna Tent City 4 over on the Eastside that insists on making so many headlines.

Last night Tent City 3 and St. Joe's had a welcome to the neighborhood ice cream social and on Sunday at 7pm they have a curious event listed on the parish's website as "Shakespeare’s Play, Merchant of Venice."