California has the most Chagas cases of any state
A person pulls a shopping cart down the street during heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary in South L.A. on August 20, 2023.Advocates and others see the response to Tropical Storm Hilary as a wake up call for L.A. to learn and better prepare for future events as weather gets more and more extreme.There were no reports of deaths or major injuries in the L.A. area. That was after dozens of unhoused people were brought into shelters and motels from riverbeds.
The agency touted those efforts, which started Thursday, as saving hundreds of lives. But there were challenges.Late Saturday afternoon, the day before the storm hit, there was still no information about available storm shelter beds for single adults who called the county’s 2-1-1 hotline. One woman whosaying Sheriff deputies were telling her to leave the riverbed was told there was nowhere she could go.
“If things got really bad [in a storm], there should in theory be enough shelter beds that everyone could clear the streets if they needed. And I haven’t heard anyone describe that as a goal or a need,” he added. “That wasn't adding a ton of capacity,” he said of the emergency shelters beds set up for Tropical Storm Hilary in the city of L.A. “That was a far cry short of what we would actually need if the storm surge came through as folks anticipated it might.”
City departments and other agencies worked closely together, she said, including having city buses nearby to be able to help people get to shelter.
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