\u201cThere\u2019s always a concern knowing that unsheltered individuals might be seeking, you know, shade from the heat and from the sun, protection by going into tunnels and different culverts and places to be out of sight, but that\u2019s also the areas that flood,\u201d said Terri Behling with Haven for Hope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
According to a 2025 Close to Home study, there are just over 1,100 homeless people in San Antonio with nowhere to go when heavy rains fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition to giving people a heads up about any kind of weather events, we\u2019re also handing out water, food, and talking to them about resources available,\u201d said Behling.<\/p>\n
In addition to Haven for Hope sending out four outreach workers to canvass the city, each city council district also has an outreach team dedicated to providing education and resources for the homeless. And that\u2019s not all \u2014 Corazon, Christian Assistance Ministries, and SAMMinistries also have boots on the ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, flash flooding is something that we live with in this area,\u201d said Behling.<\/p>\n
But Pop says making it day-to-day living on the streets is hard enough. The threat of flash flooding just adds to an already difficult reality.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to trust people when you\u2019s out here,\u201d said Pop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Haven for Hope couldn\u2019t say for sure if coordinators had warned people near Highway 281 and Wurzbach, where the two individuals were swept away last week. They believe the warnings they put out when there is heavy rain could potentially save lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The power of rushing floodwaters can be dangerous \u2014 even deadly. Just last week, two homeless people were…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":207056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,26401,8774,22213,9619,113820,1085,8152,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-207322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-encampments","10":"tag-flash-flooding","11":"tag-haven-for-hope","12":"tag-homeless","13":"tag-outreach-teams","14":"tag-resources","15":"tag-safety","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-sanantonio","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115162428568488250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}