Too few shelter beds: Many on the streets are frozen out
EVERETT — The cold isn’t going away anytime soon.
Snohomish County residents can expect to see snow on the ground until New Year’s Day. Lows were in the teens Monday morning. A pattern is expected to repeat for much of the week: lows from 15 to 25, highs in the mid-20s to mid-30s.
“It’s not just a one-day thing,” said meteorologist Carly Kovacik with the National Weather Service in Seattle. “It’ll be persistent for a while now.”
Which spells trouble for those living on the streets.
At the South County cold weather shelter, all 20 beds were taken Sunday night, said Lisa Utter, the chair of the board running the shelter. The location has received calls in the middle of the night from people in their cars who decided it was too cold and that they needed somewhere to go.
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