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Street outreach teams have been urging homeless individuals to seek shelter in the wake of winter storms that have brought freezing temperatures to the metro area.
The teams’ messaging seems to be working, said Dan Straughan, executive director of the Oklahoma City Homeless Alliance.
Monday, he said, outreach teams have been distributing flyers with a list of shelters and warming station locations. They were also sharing information about frostbite and hypothermia.
Straughan said, most of all, team members are telling people that the current winter storms are vastly different from storms many of the homeless may have experienced in the past.
“A lot of what they are saying is ‘Look, I know you've had winter
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