Orange County’s homeless residents are getting some protection from the winter with the reopening of a former Salvation thrift store that was converted into a shelter. The Santa Ana facility—which originally opened during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last March—reopened its doors Feb. 8. Up to 55 people will be allowed to sleep overnight at the shelter, where they will be given hospital-style cots, meals, showers, a television room, and restrooms. In order to sleep at the shelter, residents must be picked up by shuttle in specific locations in order to eliminate foot traffic, said Marie Chio, logistics manager for Citynet, a non-profit behind the shelter. “We are in a neighborhood, there is some industrial, but right across the street, there’s a large apartment complex,” Chio told The Epoch Times. “And we also have a little complex right next door to us, so to eliminate foot traffic we have the three pickup locations, and the three drop off locations that were …