“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
I hadn’t commented before on the lack of planning for extreme weather shelters in Orange County because the Observer and the Orange County Register seemed to have the matter well in hand. But since apparently no one on any of the City Councils in the County has been listening, a comment from yours truly on the front lines might have some value.
It seems clear, given the scope of the unhoused problem in Orange County, that every city from La Habra to San Clemente should have at least one operating emergency winter shelter. This certainly would have been welcome this past holiday week, where, thanks to the multiple atmospheric rivers passing through from the tropics, we had one of the wettest Christmases on record…