HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY \u2013 Hillsborough County\u2019s cold weather shelters will be activated on Thursday, Feb. 5, for the homeless and those living in homes without adequate heat who are unable to find other accommodations.<\/p>\n
Hillsborough County activates cold weather shelters when the National Weather Service forecasts temperatures to dip to or below 40 degrees with wind chill for two consecutive hours between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., which is forecasted to occur Thursday night in Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n
Shelter organizers are expecting high demand with limited capacity, so residents who need a warm place to stay are encouraged to use all resources, such as family and friends, as a first option.<\/p>\n
Hillsborough County is partnering with the following organizations to provide limited-capacity cold weather shelters for adults. All shelters will take in guests from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5, unless they reach capacity prior to that time.<\/p>\n
Hyde Park United Methodist Church \u2013 Harnish Center<\/p>\n
500 W. Platt St., Tampa, FL 33606<\/p>\n
Hyde Park United Methodist Church \u2013 Magnolia Building<\/p>\n
414 S. Magnolia Ave., Tampa, FL 33606<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay Mission of Hope<\/p>\n
110 S. Parsons Blvd., Brandon, FL 33511<\/p>\n
Church of God of Prophecy Hyde Park<\/p>\n
107 S. Oregon Ave., Tampa, FL 33606<\/p>\n
Amazing Love Ministries<\/p>\n
3304 E. Columbus Dr., Tampa, FL 33605<\/p>\n
Greater New Hope Church Anointed Ministries<\/p>\n
2104 Mud Lake Rd., Plant City, FL 33566<\/p>\n
All congregate shelters are reserved for adults only. Metropolitan Ministries is supplying a limited number of motel vouchers on a first-come, first-served basis for families with minor children. Pre-registration is required for motel vouchers by calling (813) 209-1176. Phone lines will be open Thursday, Feb. 5, until 5 p.m. or until all available vouchers have been distributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY \u2013 Hillsborough County\u2019s cold weather shelters will be activated on Thursday, Feb. 5, for the homeless…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[66628,27926,66625,3753,37942,66626,28,276,45629,2072,66627,857,135,137,136,221],"class_list":["post-145473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-applied-and-interdisciplinary-physics","tag-atmosphere","tag-atmospheric-sciences","tag-climate","tag-cold-weather-shelter","tag-earth-sciences","tag-florida","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-meteorology","tag-national-weather-service","tag-physical-geography","tag-sky","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}