Occupy Seattle protests beset first by rain, now by loss of tents

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/10/occupy-seattle-police-dismantle-tents.html

There's been a special Pacific Northwest-style treat for the 100 or so protesters who have been occupying a downtown park for one of the West Coast assaults on Wall Street politics known as Occupy Seattle -- rain. Who would have thought? Police moved in Wednesday afternoon on the protesters' first line of defense against the elements, a series of makeshift dome tents erected across the urban square that have made living in the drizzly weather since Saturday bearable.

After a series of warnings from city government that the protests were allowed but the tents weren't, officers began dismantling tents at 2 p.m. and arrested about 10 people who stood in the way. "There were 10 tents left by this afternoon. Five of them came down voluntarily, five required the intervention of the police. There were people who, after repeated offers of an opportunity to remove them, declined the offer," Dewey Potter, spokeswoman for the Seattle Parks Department, told The Times.

She said protesters would not be allowed to remain in the park past the 10 p.m. closing time. The confrontation over the tents followed a tense night Tuesday in which protesters kept waiting for police to move in. "People have been trying to form a chain of bodies around the tents to protect them, trying to protect as many tents as possible," said Manny Frishberg, a freelance writer and editor from Federal Way, Wash., who has participated in the protests off and on.

[glowing]

1. Here's hoping their heavy handed reach will triple the number of tents

[Kalidurga]

2. They could put up these.

http://www.homedepot.com/buy/storage-organization-sheds-garages-outdoor-storage-gazebos/10-ft-x10-ft-portable-gazebo-189148.html