The latest blast of winter weather has created dangerous conditions for Nashville's estimated 3,000 homeless residents, prompting advocates to work overtime in an effort to make sure they are safe outside in the cold.
"To be able to come inside and to be warm and take a hot shower, it's like a gift of life and survival for them," said Bob Coleman, Executive Director of Community Care Fellowship in East Nashville.
Bob said that on days when temperatures stay well below freezing, he is providing critical care.
"It becomes vitally important because we're talking about matters of life and death, people can die can freeze to death in the colder weather," he added.
While there are plenty of shelters in the city, very few focus their attention on the city's homeless during the daytime hours like Community Care Fellowship.
"When the cold weather gets you, you gotta move in somewhere to get warm," said Clifton Mitchell who was staying warm inside the shelter on Wednesday.
Clifton Mitchell spent his nights in a tent, making having someplace warm on a day with below freezing temps a life saver.
"When it gets cold, you got to survive. You got to survive," he added.
While the sun was providing an assumption of warmth on Wednesday, it could do little to mask the cold for the city's three thousand homeless residents.
