A day late and a dollar short
is not amusing
to those recovering from the September disruptions.

Just got a news sound-bite on WBZ 1030 AM radio, the news station for Boston -- the big one, with the signal that can be heard states away.

Now the nights are cold enough for pipes to freeze.
And the pipes are freezing in those trailers/caravans into which
homeless families have been directed while their homes, rendered uninhabitable by the September explosions, are seen to.
There are quantities of these trailers with homeless families in them.
They have complained about both the frozen plumbing
and the fact that they feel as though
they are living inside matchboxes.

Last night, the town's mayor -- was this Lawrence, or Lowell? --
spent all night in the grounds with these families.
When the radio station asked if the mayor would offer a statement,
the station got the response
that the mayor had lost his voice as a result of last night...