AUSTIN (KXAN) — This cold snap may be inconvenient and unnerving for many Texans — Texans have earned every right to be weary of incoming weather — but standing on the street downtown, getting video of wet roads and jacketed Austinites, a man named Michael Evans gave me a healthy dose of perspective.
While concerns about power outages, wading through a very busy H-E-B or losing my daily dog walks to cold rain may seem like an inconvenience, Evans is one of the thousands of Austinites who won’t have the option to sleep inside this week. That’s more than inconvenient. In fact, Austin-Travis County EMS told me this week that it’s downright dangerous.
I found Evans outside of a downtown church, he usually camps near there but said “it’s getting cold so that’s becoming a problem.”…