Residents Bundle Up as Colder Temperatures Hit the Bay Area

As temperatures dropped Saturday nighttime successful the South Bay, residents bundled up and looked for warmer places.

Due to the acold weather, Santa Clara County opened a warming halfway astatine the California National Guard Building successful San Jose.

There was an urgent plea from stateless advocator Scott Largent. He utilized a bull horn to fto radical successful this San Jose encampment cognize this overnight halfway conscionable opened up adjacent and they tin spell determination to flight adjacent freezing temperatures.

Shaunn Cartwright with the Unhoused Response Group told NBC Bay Area that she hopes this enactment volition prevention lives during the bitter cold.

“We bash cognize past twelvemonth 7 radical died successful a 1 week. And 5 are suspected to person died from exposure,” she said.

In Campbell, radical inactive dined extracurricular but they wore hoods and relied connected occurrence pits to get done a repast with temperatures successful the 30s.

“I privation I was wearing my wintertime coat. I person 1 but I ne'er get to usage it . It would beryllium bully to person present since my arms are bare,” said Redwood City nonmigratory Emily Levine.

Even though the prima was out, it inactive felt chilly. San Jose nonmigratory Camille Scheffer and her household headed location wherever they planned to drawback blankets and crank up the heat.

“I person the heater moving each nighttime and the kids adjacent person their ain heaters arsenic well,” she said.

With a frost informing successful effect overnight for Santa Clara Valley, radical were scrambling to support pipes and plants.

But the biggest interest is the unhoused who are astatine hazard of hypothermia arsenic the temperatures drop.