For the last five years, Rachelle Lacy-Powell has kept her entire life inside two vehicles: A Honda Odyssey minivan and a recreational vehicle. Lacy-Powell, 59, used the van to run errands and drive herself to appointments, while sleeping in the RV.
“That’s all I had,” she told OPB. “My lifeline.”
Lacy-Powell panicked three weeks ago when she discovered a green notice stuck to the windshield of each vehicle on a street in Southeast Portland. The city had determined that her vehicles were “abandoned,” according to the note, and would be towing them within 10 days. Without enough money to pay for gas to move both, she quickly moved everything into her RV and drove it to another street.
Her van was towed, and she said she hasn’t had the time or transportation to retrieve it. She said she now lives in fear that her remaining vehicle could be towed any time…