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That November, the sudden rain washed away around 10 people, killing three:

Anthony “Poopsie” Ray Lopez, Madeline Velasquez and Josephine Guadalupe Dominguez.

“I miss them,” said Pandora Naranjo, a friend.

Matt Fowle, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania who tracks deaths among unhoused people in the U.S., found a 141% increase in mortality from environmental causes across 22 localities between 2011 and 2020.

He said those deaths are preventable with some planning.