Crumbled concrete sits at the bottom of a drainage ditch along U.S. Highway 281 North near Bitters Road, where forceful floodwaters rushed through on the evening of Aug. 31.

This week, the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office identified two people swept away in the flood as Robert Gaytan, 52, and Nicole Lynn Keller, 43. Gaytan and Keller drowned, and both were experiencing homelessness.

“They were known in the community of those experiencing homelessness,” said Nikisha Baker, the president and CEO of SAMMinistries.

Their deaths have sparked a bigger conversation in San Antonio about flood prevention projects for people without shelter. Nonprofits, such as SAMMinistries, are looking for solutions.

“The primary goal is to get folks off the street and into a safe place,” Baker said.

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