They re ill, because as one person was saying, you know, my parents can barely walk around their own house. there s no way that they can make this journey. people s faces, their expressions are of pure shock, and everyone is really speaking in these hushed voices. it s almost as if they re afraid to raise the level of conversation because that would somehow pierce their consciousness. and they still can t believe that this is real. they don t want to believe that this is real. all that being said, when people are actually able to arrive here, they are being greeted. a lot of those who you see around us right now are carrying signs, signs for offers of free lodging, signs of locations that they re shifting people as they come through. i have to say, coming through very slowly to lodging, to food, to warmth. at night it gets extraordinarily ....