DALLAS- WBAP/KLIF – The City of Dallas is opening the downtown Erik Johnson Library as an overnight emergency shelter ahead of dangerous wet, freezing weather expected in the Metroplex Tuesday night. The basement of that library will open at 5:30 pm Tuesday, and stay open until the morning on Wednesday, 7:30 am.
A mix of snow, sleet, and rain is expected with howling northerly winds gusting to 30 miles an hour. The homeless shelter “Our Calling”‘s Pastor Wayne Walker says a cell phone app is being used to send emergency weather advisories to the homeless; Walker says about 80% of the homeless in the city of Dallas have cell phones. Walker says outreach workers will try to find the others, fearing people are at risk of dying in the wet, inclement weather expected.
Walker says while 25 to 26-hundred beds are available each night for the homeless in the city of Dallas, the homeless population is estimated to be about 10 thousand.
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