Obama Visits Miami
This piece isn't intended to be a hatchet job on the President. It's just that his visit this afternoon might make the traffic a whole lot crazier than usual. The President is making a visit to the "Hurricane Center at FIU. The visit is the official reason he is going to land at MIA.
Hurricane season starts officially on June 1st. Given the bad weather in Houston and vicinity I hope he makes a stop in that neighborhood asap. Maybe slightly unconsciously I am reading the book: "Five Days At Memorial" which is about a disaster within a disaster after Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans.
The other driving force for the visit is to raise money for some democrats by attending a couple of events in Coconut Grove, a neighborhood in Miami, which has some very, very fancy houses and like just about every other place in Miami, some very poor folks that live on the edge of poverty while within a short walk of a beautiful bay front.
I visit the poor side of town regularly. In the Grove the poor side of town has a main street, it's called Grand Avenue. Historically it was where the Bahamians who were the workforce that built old Miami lived. Shotgun houses and other old houses along Grand Avenue are being replaced. It's also the neighborhood where Carver Elementary and Carver Middle School are located, next to Armbrister Park, and the City of Miami Fire College. There is a food bank, a neighborhood center, some small storefronts and the occasional shootout in the neighborhood. The school has been on "lockdown" at least three times this year. I'm back up transportation to school and the school principal calls to relay the message for any lockdowns in the afternoon, before the evening news starts.
I know this is what big city living is. A few years ago there was a dead body dropped off just across the road from my Condo. Stuff happens.
I hope the POTUS stays as far away from the schools as possible, at least until after everyone has been picked up or gotten on their bus to go home. Both the Hurricane Center and Grand Avenue could use a visit, too bad he doesn't have time for public transportation, that would be a real eye opener.
Hurricane season starts officially on June 1st. Given the bad weather in Houston and vicinity I hope he makes a stop in that neighborhood asap. Maybe slightly unconsciously I am reading the book: "Five Days At Memorial" which is about a disaster within a disaster after Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans.
The other driving force for the visit is to raise money for some democrats by attending a couple of events in Coconut Grove, a neighborhood in Miami, which has some very, very fancy houses and like just about every other place in Miami, some very poor folks that live on the edge of poverty while within a short walk of a beautiful bay front.
I visit the poor side of town regularly. In the Grove the poor side of town has a main street, it's called Grand Avenue. Historically it was where the Bahamians who were the workforce that built old Miami lived. Shotgun houses and other old houses along Grand Avenue are being replaced. It's also the neighborhood where Carver Elementary and Carver Middle School are located, next to Armbrister Park, and the City of Miami Fire College. There is a food bank, a neighborhood center, some small storefronts and the occasional shootout in the neighborhood. The school has been on "lockdown" at least three times this year. I'm back up transportation to school and the school principal calls to relay the message for any lockdowns in the afternoon, before the evening news starts.
I know this is what big city living is. A few years ago there was a dead body dropped off just across the road from my Condo. Stuff happens.
I hope the POTUS stays as far away from the schools as possible, at least until after everyone has been picked up or gotten on their bus to go home. Both the Hurricane Center and Grand Avenue could use a visit, too bad he doesn't have time for public transportation, that would be a real eye opener.
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