![]() ![]() Paul Vautrinot, from climbing out to helping out Today help might mean just surviving, but tomorrow, or a day years from now, it may mean climbing out of the darkness. His philosophy on service is simple: He will help those who need it most, and meet them where they are, judgment free. He offers food, water, batteries, clean socks, new flashlights. He knows what the people down here need because the first person he helped out of the tunnels was himself.Īnd even for those who don’t want to leave, or are afraid to leave, to return to a terrestrial plane that was far more traumatic and harrowing than anything they see down here, Vautrinot still helps. Each occupied tunnel has its own customs and rituals and unofficial leaders.įor those who want help leaving, there is one man who regularly descends into the tunnels. Some have lived down here for a decade or more. ![]() There’s no fresh water, and the only electricity comes from batteries, but people have still managed to piece together meager, ersatz apartments inside the industrial-sized, concrete-walled waterways. But several tunnels have become small, off-the-map communities. Some are transient - temporary occupants moving in and out every few weeks. These are America’s forgotten, those left behind in a country with an ever-growing gap between the haves and have nots. For hundreds of people, these tunnels are home.
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